I am not offended, I just think your reply (the others below it are even worse) was dumb.
I don't care much about the law - in these debates (guns, abortion), the question is never about what the law is, but what you believe the law should be (I am not sure why you even thought I was interested in debating the minutia of the law in that matter)
I am not even against gun ownership. I do happen to think that if the law really did assign the blame on the home invaders, it's incredibly idiotic. At what point do you decide that the defenders were not careful enough and put the lives of third parties in danger? Or do you think that *any* defense (say, spray and pray from an automatic rifle) is appropriate in any situation? Should cops always be authorized to randomly shoot at criminals in busy areas?
The situation here is not a cop shooting randomly at criminals in a busy mall, but assuming you have a threshold for this, mine just happens to be lower.
I don't mind if my neighbor has a gun, but I don't want him to get a free pass to shoot at my house without any repercussion, no matter what the intent and situation was. And of course, the fact the neighbor got lucky doesn't change a thing.