I hope I never get put in the situation but with two armed urban ferals in your house it is 99 to one that either you or they are going to die. It easy to monday morning quarterback but I think even the author knows it is a miracle that his sister and wife were not raped and murdered.
My daughter saw one of them looking in through an open spot in her bedroom drapes and calmly walked to my room and told me...At that point one of them forced my bathroom window open and landed on the floor. The door was closed between my bedroom and the bathroom.
I forcefully told whoever was there that if they opened that door, they were facing a pistol with hollow points and that it would give me great pleasure to blow them into Hell. They slithered right back up the wall and out.
You can put your preaching where the sun won't shine, but I do not respect a man who is not willing to fight for his family. This man surrendered. He was fortunate. If I were this man I would be glad to have survived, but I wouldn't recommend his course of action ever, let alone boast about it.