"I don't think this ruling extends a right to fire-up neighbor kids skinny dipping in your pool. ;~))"
Your description of the incident is incorrect.
He fired at the kid after the kid broke the window on the patio door and was standing in his den.
Having said that, I think he should live by his own rules and turned himself in for a jail term.
Only if they have a refrigerated lockup. He died on Sept. 23, 2000
Regarding the "skinny-dipping defense", from Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, but it seems to be lifted from established sources, and it's consistent with what I recall having read at the time of the incident):
Rowan gained public notoriety on June 14, 1988, when he shot a teenage tresspasser, Neil Smith, who was taking a dip in Rowan's swimming pool in Washington, D.C.. Rowan used an unregistered .22 LR pistol. Critics charged hypocrisy, since Rowan was a strict gun control advocate.
Now, what gets me about this whole incident is not the "merits" of the shooting, but rather, the "above the law" aspect that was enjoyed by Rowan and his son, an FBI agent, who illegally gave him the illegal gun (and that is not a redundancy).
Clearly, there's one set of rules for the "inner circle", and another set of rules for the rubes.
Somewhat tangential to the Rowan matter (tangential only because Rowan was a journalist, rather than a politician), the way Our Leaders have been getting around the DC gun ban is quite creative. They have been getting themselves sworn in as U.S. Marshalls.
This empowers them to carry everywhere, including, if I'm not mistaken, on commercial airliners.
It also -- human nature being what it is -- gives them very little motivation to come up with any kind of "national carry" law, since for them, it's moot. They already have national carry.
That's right. Your Senator, or Congressman, may also be a U.S. Marshall!
Now, the U.S. Marshalls Service is part of the Executive Branch of the federal gov't, and the Legislature is part of the Legislative Branch.
This means that these jokers are members of two branches of the federal government at the same time.
And that, I belive, is illegal.
But, when you're above the law, why worry about trifling details like that?