Attaboy!!!
His dad should be proud...
These things happen more often than we know. In years past, most boys were skilled with firearms, and they loved their families too. Most of them would protect those they loved, even if it meant killing an attacker. And why shouldn't they?
In my youth, most men were away at war until I was about eight years old. Following the war, when those surviving relatives returned home, they found boys and some girls eager to learn from them. I was one of those boys.
We took great pride in learning about firearms, and on Sundays we were told not to kill. That balance worked, for the most part, and self defense was a right in our laws.