We're in agreement as to your last two paragraphs. I think you're just as guilty of speculation as I am in this particular case. I'm just coming down on the side of the good guy and also assuming him innocent in regards to the info presented thus far-which he is sans the law about shooting in town. My take is that he very well could have grabbed the gun up when he saw the house was gone through in case the burglar was yet on the premises. Following the trail, so to speak, he spies the burglar coming out of his neighbor's window. I think that this is not only reasonable but the most reasonable explanation and I'll hazard a guess that most of us here would do similarly to what he did in the same situation. I'll include you in that group.
We pretty well agree. And I said I agree the circumstances that we do know about, yes, it was a reasonable assumption. I'm simply saying in my mind, before I inject myself in to something that could end up resulting in the use of deadly force, I want it to be on more than a "reasonable assumption". That's just me.
As to the charge against the old guy, I don't get it. Like someone else said, there may be more to this than has been reported.
