Not every firearm owner is a vigilanti, or a mugger, or murderer. In all the years that Ive owned and carried a firearm, no one has bothered me, and I only shot in the direction of a miscreant once, at a boat ramp inKy on lake cumberland, and THEY probably called the police, and the sheriffs deputy, while NOT condoning it, understood where I was, ans where I was coming from. that particular site had several incidents of auto and truck break ins.