[DiogenesLamp]

Despite that, the law does not permit decent homeowners to shoot wannabe burglars who are running away. It was a bad shoot.

He didn't hit him. Either he was a lousy shot, or he didn't intend to hit him.

I see nothing wrong with firing a shot over the head of someone who was running away from your property as if they had done something. Wife may have overreacted, but the Husband seems to have behaved reasonably in my opinion. Now if he had hit the kid, that would be a different animal.

[Simon Green]

I see nothing wrong with firing a shot over the head of someone who was running away from your property as if they had done something.

You’re that confident that you won’t hit anything down range when firing over someone’s head? There is no circumstance in which one should fire a “warning shot”. Period.