If this isn't handled correctly by law enforcement where these people couldn't get near my home and/or have a chance to overrun insufficient law enforcement I don't see anything wrong with trying to do your best at dispersing the crowd at long range with a rifle at first site after their threat. Just imagine if 5000 were allowed to march to his home and then he gave up to them without a fight. I see that turning into a brutal death for the man, and violent celebration like that we saw from other disgusting Muslim terrorist in Fallujah, Iraq.
I still get upset about that incident now, and how it was handled. Why we didn't drop a very large bomb on that mob crowd killing everyone involved in the crowd regardless of if they were committing it, or only watching the mutilation of 4 Americans with smiles on their faces and chants of their desire to see it happen to every American, but instead we watched live video of it with nothing done for some reason. The American bodies were mutilated and charred so horribly I think most would have rather seen them destroyed in massive explosion killing the perpetrators instead of being shown killed and mutilated live all over the world. Then when we did go in we stopped in the middle because of politics only to have to go back in later because we won't allow our superb military to use all it's resources and power to win. We would rather lose a war, and gigantic amounts of money in the proccess, along with more American lives than quickly end a war simply by fighting it without the restrictions that have gotten worse in every war since the last one we had a decisive victory in, which was WW2. It was also against a more powerful enemy than we have faced since which tells you all you need to know. It's not our troops or equipment, which are better trained and equipped and more powerful than ever, but our lack of will to see war for what it is, and fight it to win these days. We don't have what it takes as a people to accept the realities of war which just causes damage to our troops and nation. We need a military and political system ran by people like General Patton and General Sherman, or understand their obvious thoughts on the realities of war instead of trying to block that cruelness of even the most just wars that must be fought, or find ridiculous and impossible ways to change it which our history has shown cannot work just as General Sherman said so long ago.
I went on a little rant there, but it's just thinking about why we still fight wars if we aren't going fight them correctly anymore. We have had a long history of trying that, and it's only gotten worse. Stop going to war or start fighting it the only ways human history has showed effective. Technology can't make war less cruel while having the same positive advantages in winning the war. Mind control is about it, and that kind of technology wouldn't be a good thing for anybody. It's a horrible thing, but when you feel there is no other options you fight it with vicious brutality because that's what war is and accept what it takes to win before supporting one. We should have never invaded Iraq or Afghanistan unless we were going to fight it to win at all cost. The wars should have been over in the Bush administration because we were capable stopping most opposition in a very short time which then would have actually sent a shock wave of fear through our enemies instead of the ignorant powerful giant that decided it will never fight a war to win because we have to keep the romantic view of it instead of the cruel reality of it.