To continue moving toward a man pointing a gun at him under those circumstances might just earn him a Darwin award. I feel bad for the homeowner, but he probably helped make the world a better place.

Avid,

It differs from the "running off with the speakers" incident only in the details. It's reasonable to expect that given a few more minutes, the Toledo burglar would have similarly been running off with whatever he could have picked up and run with, but for being stopped at an earlier stage of the same game.

The only way that residential burglaries will stop being an epidemic is when the risks to burglars outweigh the perceived benefits. That's only going to happen if a significant percentage of would-be burglars get shot and killed. We can probably agree that the criminal justice system isn't going to solve it, and in fact directly contributes to the problem because it keeps the risks low.

Sg