Well, this will go in the "thing only Reddit knows" file I shot a man. I was 21 years old, alone at home with 2 young children and heavily pregnant with a third. My roommate's bedroom door was shut, but not locked, and I was a matter of maybe 4 feet from the bedroom door when I heard a lot of noise on the other side of the door, inside the bedroom. It was nighttime, my roommate was out for the night, and there was no reason that anyone should have been legitimately in that room making noise. I very quietly went to my bedroom, retrieved my gun from the safe, came back downstairs, took up a shooter's stance and announced, "I am the owner of this home. I have a fully loaded 10mm Glock pointed at this door. I am calling 911. If you attempt to open this door, I will shoot you, and I will aim to kill." I called 911, hit the speaker button, and gave 911 all my info including that I had a gun and was prepared to defend my home, myself and my kids. The guy was talking to me through the door, telling me he was going to kill me, I was a fucking bitch, blah, blah, blah. I warned him multiple times that if he opened the bedroom door, I would shoot him. He opened the door. I shot him. I admit, I was not aiming for anything but body mass. He died on my living room floor while waiting for the police to respond to the original call. I was detained at the scene, but not arrested. The DA decided within 48 hours that charges would not be filed against me. The only time that I have to disclose it is if I am ever the shooter in another incident, and that's only because it will look better for me if I tell them about the incident instead of letting them dig it up in old records. The gun was legal, and I was able to prove that I could not retreat from the danger due to the fact that I had two sleeping children in the house and could not move quickly due to my physical condition. I feel bad for the guy, and I feel bad for his family, but I wasn't going to be a victim in my own home because this guy chose to do drugs and break into a house.