Well, what would you do, S, if someone broke into your house in the middle of the night. You waken to the sound of glass breaking and an obvious intruder attempting to access your home. What would you do, if you had a wife and children in your house?

Personally, I don't care if it's the freakin Pope coming to personally bless my family and annoint my kids as saints. You do not enter another persons house without permission. It's as simple as that. What gives anyone the right to try and take what is yours?

The idea of the confrontation comes from the situation at hand. It wouldn't make sense any other way. There's no split second decision to take a life if your shit is already stolen, or if you know who stole it, but they aren't in the process of it. This situation is about the here and now. Someone comes onto your property, breaks into your house with the express intent of harming you or your property. You have every right to end them. What do you do? That is the question being asked. It's entirely about confrontation, because the situation is purely based out of it. Are you saying you'd go and hide, and run around your house hoping that the intruders didn't see you, while you called the cops and hoped for the best? I'm not gonna lie, my apartment isn't big enough where I can simply hide in the attic while people loot my home. If someone were to barge into my house right now, I'd be about 30 feet away from them, and I don't have a choice as to where to run to. I'll be straight ahead, with the baseball bat I have in the closet.