California 80-year-old satisfied after gunning down fleeing pregnant home intruder

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196. What would the response be if they'd beaten the old man not to injury, but to death?

And then bragged about the money they got from the safe? Or if they'd taken the gun from him in the struggle and killed him with it would he blamed for using the gun to stop them as he didn't have the strength to resist without it?

There's no way of telling since he would not be alive to tell his tale, and they wouldn't go to the media to tell of their successful heist or having killed him.

I'm wondering if he didn't believe the people who'd just attacked him were actually fleeing. I might have trouble believing anything that a person after they'd just beaten me down, that they were not prepared to do it to me again.

But I would not have shot them in the back, unless I'd lost my mind.

I think these stories are being reported more than ever, to actually cause fear in all kinds of people. Some will seize on this as their reason to use a gun, because they feel vulnerable at home, or in the case of robbers, they will become armed robbers. That has been a major part of home invasions, too.

I think the CA law will deal with him in a fair manner, no matter what, but some will never be satisfied from either side of the debate.

The issue you bring here is his injury. And that injury was caused for no good reason and one can survive, although he did NOT deserve to be injured, PERIOD. It does not excuse what they did or were planning to do next and we won't get the truth now.

The argument the old man shot them just for taking his stuff, is neglecting that the robbers were willing to injure or even kill him for the same stuff in question.

The real issue is that death is final and the woman robber will never get to change or make restitution. Now that he is under arrest, he will be have to pay the price for his decision.

And I agree, no one seems to really look at the old man as a human being. It is why older people will sometimes isolate themselves as the consensus appears to be that they've served their purpose and they might have died or injured themselves otherwise.

I love people of all ages, and am old or getting there myself. But I see a some isolation from fear by some elders. This was a horrible event.