As it stands right now, we only have his claim that they broke in and that they were thieves.
That being said, the most logical assumption is that they did break into his house and were there to rip him off. Because they did that, they were asking to get shot.
The problem, as I've stated before, is not with his shooting them (certainly not with his shooting the first intruder), but with his decision to murder them after he - by his own statements - saw that they were unarmed and badly wounded.
Killing them after the fact is simply murder. That's the way the law works and has always worked.
Your constant smearing of this guy
I haven't smeared him. His own statements are damning. There's no need to add to what he has already said about himself.
is what does the damage to our 2A and self defense rights.
This is incorrect: one of the main arguments in favor of 2A and self-defense rights is that law-abiding citizens have a Constitutional - and really pre-Constitutional, God-given - right to self-defense.
When armed citizens turn around and break the law - and use firearms to do it - they are strengthening the argument of the fascists who claim that citizens do not have the self-control to exercise their rights freely.
Smith broke the law, and broke it in an egregious fashion. By defending his actions and claiming that they were acceptable and that any armed citizen would or should do the same, is to proclaim that we are lawbreakers and that we lack the self-control necessary to discern between right and wrong.
Smith is an outlier whose statements reveal that he has serious mental problems. He does not represent the average armed citizen. The average armed citizen should be disgusted by his actions.
Wrong. There is nothing more "just" than an intended victim turning the tables on their aggressor. The matter of punishment is entirely up to the person who had force/fraud/theft initiated against them. That the law limits a victims response is the true injustice.
How many times have we heard about revolving door justice and the law not applying equally? That thieves like this have long careers specifically BECAUSE the law limits what victims can do to stop them.