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Try reading the second sentence.
He was shot in the chest.”

You’re right, my mistake, but it does not change my point at all. I’m still unable to justify shooting someone running away after failing to steal from me, i.e. no actual property loss.

For those that can justify this shooting, what’s the practical difference between shooting someone as they try to run away, and shooting someone who has given up but has not tried to run away? i.e. just summarily executing them? could you justify that? if not, why not? after all, the point that “they can come back later with a gun” still applies once they’re out on bail or whatever, so why not summarily execute the perp in your custody to prevent that possibility?

What really bothers me is how people expect people to keep their heads straight in any given situation....you really can’t be certain what you would do if faced with the same.

My friend had a guy trying to get in her home at 3:oo in the morning...twisting and turning her door handle...she is 60 yrs old and lives alone. When she shared what happened I’m not so sure I would have just waited for him to go away...which he did eventually because she flipped on her deck light thinking it would scare him away..it did.. She had no weapons or mace to deter him.

I spoke to a police officer about that and he said if you shoot or knife someone you have to make certain they are inside your house....drag them in if you have to. But then they would know you did that i would think.

My point is she had no clue how to handle the situation...the noise and his clamoring to open the door shook her so much she said she dropped her phone and went and just grabbed a knife. Said she was afraid she might hurt him if he got in.

How it ended was she told her landlord who got the police....ended up it was some guy drunk at the wrong door...her landlord spoke to the guy and put the fear of God in him....(landlord big guy).