Just so I am clear on some things...... If someone is under attack, it is acceptable to fight back by whatever means necessary.

@YourMomsSecretCrush

When it comes to home invasions, things are more complex than some like to portray them.

Killing is never right but it can be less wrong. Wrongness is spectrum

Anyone who has a functioning moral compass will experience the guilt, because it is wrong to end a life.

Wrong can be necessary.

The level of wrongness would depend on many factors including the level of security where you live.

If you kill the invader, that is it, they are dead. What they lost is their own life. That is all they have to lose.

If they kill you and there are kids in the house, your wife..etc..who is to say they won't also harm and kill the rest of your loved ones?

So you will be met with a heavy decision, eliminating a threat.

They have little to lose, they choose to be there, they choose to risk their life, you don't.

In my opinion it is less wrong in that situation. And it can be necessary evil.

I have never had to shoot a thief but I had to fire warning shots to keep them away from the main property, while waiting for help. And it did keep them away

I don't like the idea of killing. Yet we all have to do what we must to survive violent situations. I get that people like to think about these things as hypothetical situations , ultimately no one knows what they would do when faced with similar circumstances.

@Miram very good points. thank you.