i never want to kill either, and i fully understand your belief, it would be a sickening feeling to have taken a life, when my stepfather tried to get me to kill raccoons because they get up and steal the cats food he seems to not get that i cant just blindly take any life(how can i kill something that is just hungry?) especially when it was completely passive to our cats, however, the way see it, you dont know what all a badguy is going to do to you or those you care about, and i choose not to risk my family's life. if an intruder manages to get out of my house without being shot, then i obviously wont persue him or her, but if i present my firearm and they dont submit, it will be my understanding they intend hostility. i would like to think i will have the chance to ask for compliance, "GET DOWN ON THE GROUND NOW NOW NOW!" but that may not be the case, and with reports of meth labs in the area, demands likely wont do any good, methheads when high or strung out wont act the least bit rationally.