Why is a veteran being prosecuted for firing warning shots when a man was trying to break into his home?
"Thompson has been charged with unlawful use of a weapon and menacing and reckless endangering and had his rifle confiscated." He fire into the ground.
Because he broke the law there, if the man had been in the home, it would have been no problem, but you can't shoot someone who is outside the home.
His being a vet has nothing good to do with it, if he wants a defense that because he was in a war he wants to shoot anytime he feels threatened, that's just not going to fly.
Odds are though that they aren't going to strongly prosecute him, there may be a fine for firing a weapon in an inhabited area or some such minor thing.
So the idiots say the scumbag "was not acting aggressively" when he tried to break in the man's house? Bullchit. The veteran did nothing wrong and in fact showed restraint.
There was obviously no threat, it there had been, he would have shot the burglar. He should have given a warning SHOUT, then shot the intruder if he continued to enter