Please everyone remember to always call 911 and have them record your actions and words to prevent some lowlife lawyer from suing you in case his client should live.
If it gets so far,make sure he doesn`t. Don`t mean to sound crass about it but it`s true. Lawyers and their clients will spin it everyway they can. When you call 911,especially in states without the castle doctrine law,make sure you are quite clear you feel you safety and others is in imminent danger. Also no TV heroics,no warning shots,no wing him in the leg. If it`s to the point you are going to draw your gun the the line has been established and if it`s crossed they die,plain and simple.
We had a local farmer who had his workshop broken into several times. The last time he caught two guys going out from the garage and stopped them at gunpoint and waited for the police to arrive. As he was standing there he was shot at by a companion of the group from a parked truck. He returned one shot striking the shooter in the throat,eventually killing her. The prosecutor actually tried to convict the farmer of manslaughter but he was acquitted based on the fact the three intruders had weapons in the truck and thereby he justifiably felt his life threatened.