Home invaders. (Exercising the Right).

Shortly before 10 a.m. on October 6th, Las Vegas, Nevada, resident "Steve" (who did not want his last name revealed) and his wife were at home when someone began banging on the front door and ringing the doorbell. Steve's wife peered through a peephole and saw several men whom she did not know. She urged her husband not to open the door.

As he waited for the men to leave, Steve overheard one say, "OK, do it," after which a thunderous blow broke the door casing. The frightened couple ran to a bedroom and shut the door. While his wife called 911, Steve, who had spent more than two decades in the military, went to a safe sequestered in a closet, unlocked it, and grabbed a handgun.

The intruders had by then kicked the front door off its hinges. As reported in the October 9th Las Vegas Sun, "Still in his bedroom with his wife, Steve positioned himself in front of his closed bedroom door. One of the intruders grabbed the doorknob, but before he could get inside, Steve squeezed off a round." The bullet "went through the bedroom door, through the ...