re: 'Don't shoot me, I'm pregnant — I'm going to have a baby,' and I shot her anyway

You can't shoot people who are running away and have any sort of legal defense. They took his stuff. She asked him not to shoot her and then ran away, he then chose to kill her. We have a legal system to remedy theives.

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Which is why I don't exactly fault him for shooting her. Apparently this was their 2nd time robbing him. My issue is him giving her two shots in the back versus 1 in the leg or a less fatal area

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They had been robbing other houses in the neighborhood for a long time, according to statements in the video. I'm surprised at the number of posters in this thread who think the old man was supposed to be calm and collected enough to handle the situation any differently than he did.

If I came into my house and there were two people ransacking it, I would pull my gun and start firing. Now, I'm not saying I would necessarily hit anybody because the heat of the moment tends to affect a lot of us, but bullets would be flying in their general direction at least.

The man is 80 years old, he and his neighbors have been robbed before and the perps threw him down. I think that's enough to get just about anybody angry enough to keep shooting even if the creeps were running away. I don't understand putting so much responsibility on the homeowner in this situation.