Remember, warning shots at an aggressor might be used against you. Ammo is still not cheap, and getting killed yourself is worse. This example might be helpful in your future (reformatted, emphasis mine):
‘Don’t stop shooting until they’re down’: Homeowner says he ‘did the right thing’ when he fired at intruder who kicked in his door. Intruder died at scene
…The homeowner noted to KOCO that the intruder was looking for his ex-girlfriend and trying to get inside the home. What was going through his mind while the break-in was taking place? “Distance,” the homeowner told the station. “Don’t stop shooting until they’re down and even then, watch ’em because people play possum.”
The homeowner added to KOCO that the intruder had dropped off a friend there. “She had him drop her off here, and then she blocked him the next morning, and he decided to come over here because this is the last place that he knew she was,” the homeowner recounted to the station. The homeowner told KOCO that he used a security camera to watch the man on the porch of his home and asked him to leave.
Instead, the man got something out of his truck and returned to the door, the station said. “I was right up against the door looking out as I saw his back and his frame, and then I started to back up,” the homeowner told KOCO. “He kicked the door in. It hit me in the face. I pushed it back up against him, backed up and continued to back up.” He added to the station that he didn’t begin firing “until I saw his feet come in over my doorway.”
A next-door neighbor recounted to KFOR that he heard “pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. I mean, just, you know, as quick as someone could squeeze the trigger. I mean, it happened so fast … I walked outside and could smell gunpowder right away.”
The intruder was pronounced dead at the scene in the 3000 block of Westbrook Street in Chickasha, which is about 40 minutes southwest of Oklahoma City.
Yet another Darwin Award winner…
(H/T: The Blaze)
