His Excellency Aethien wrote:
This I just don't get. I don't expect you to be all polite but to instantly go to kill mode is just baffling to me. Just pulling him off would've worked as well and he might've broken something but that's a lot less bad than being dead. And the fact that anyone would even want a gun in their house for any reason other than sport or hunting seems absurd to me.
Kaolian very specifically said that at the point where he is ready to shoot, his daughter has already stated this man was a stranger who was unlawfully inside the house. That's pretty much exactly how the situation in question played out.
Dad enters the room, asks questions, tells the kid not to move, and the kid does something stupid as all hell like reach for "something". That's a lot different than coming in, guns blazing, shooting anything that moves and asking questions later. Don't distort the facts.
I also take very serious exception with your last comment. I'm all for better gun laws but I have weapons, and they are for protection, because people are ******* insane. If you think that's absurd, I hope you never have to live through an attack, because it obviously hasn't happened to you yet.