General Discussion

Not shoot.

I also don't know what was going through the shooter's head, what the evaluation of the relative risk was. Were there stories about home invasion robberies? Burglaries in the area? Did the shooter suspect that maybe the would-be intruders were armed--perhaps with a gun, perhaps knife or mace or just a club or fists? How old was the shooter? 75? 35?

Dunno. The police pointed out that with a breakdown in community standards as to what's 'reasonable' there's a larger problem. (Research has been done on how community cohesion breaks down when competing values are held by the community members. Takes a surprisingly small percentage of the population to be at odds with the dominant culture for that to happen. For many younger adults, that kind of tension is just normal and worth it, even as they express a lot of alienation towards society--they don't know anything else but humans are wired for cohesive social groups.)