Sorry, if a dude comes into my house with a gun, you have to assume his intention is to kill you.
You dont assume the best, you assume the worst.
Anyway, this thread has jumped the shark.
Exactly.
It's easy for people to start getting all theoretical about it, but at the end of day your own life and that of your family is what comes first.
Not the 'rights' of some criminal coming into your property to rob, murder, rape or all three.
Where I'm originally from, the victims get tortured and raped for hours in their houses before they're finally murdered with their arms and legs tied behind their backs.
Their are many cases of the children getting raped in front of their parents, babies raped to death, victims tortured by burning irons, boiling water from the kettle etc.
This is a
reality.
Not isolated cases, these are widespread everyday occurrences.
These types deserve no mercy.