It seems to me you are taking the officer to task, when the real problem was that his daughter circumvented the system to do something she shouldn’t have been doing.
Who was the officer trying to protect? In fact, he was trying to protect the family. He was trying to protect that very daughter, who should have been in her room, and who he thought was in her room.
If you and your wife are home and someone comes down the hallway to your bedroom what are you going to do? Will you allow the person to fire off one or two shotgun rounds before you shoot?
It could be one of your adult children who doesn’t live there any longer, in your home using very bad judgement. Perhaps they have been drinking
Would you be the bad guy for trying to prevent a threat getting a jump on you and your wife?
What if you waited and your wife’s head was blown off? How would that set with you?
How is my wife’s head going to get blown off in the garage, when she is upstairs in the bedroom and the door is locked?
By that logic, he should shoot anything that approaches his house at night, since they might break into a door and cause harm.
Or maybe he should just shoot people in the street, since they might be walking up to the house.
The fact is, a police officer shot an unarmed teenager in his garage, without ever identifying the target.
What if a police officer had seen the garage door opened, and decided to investigate to make sure someone wasn’t trying to steal the car? Then this guy would have shot a cop. And if he was a citizen, he would go to jail for shooting the cop.
Shooting at unidentified people in your garage is never a good idea. You shouldn’t shoot your kids if they walk through your bedroom door at 3am either. My son has done that before, when he was worried about something, or needed medication.
I don’t think people who would shoot at unidentified targets in a house with children should have a gun.