Reply #1: Unless a firearm is discharged or someone is injured or killed...

[spin]

a story just doesn't make the news.

I remember two incidents I heard from co-workers that never made it into print...

One co-worker described an incident where his wife told him a peeping tom was peering into their bedroom window. He carefully entered the dark bedroom with a revolver in his hand, crouched and approached the window. He then popped up with the firearm and confronted the peeper. His backyard was adjacent to a cemetery and he laughed as he described the guy running away and jumping over the tombstones.

Another co-worker had a similar story. When told by his wife that there was a prowler in the back yard, he told his wife to call the police, grabbed his small pistol and went out the front door to investigate. He was sneaking around the side of the house just as the prowler was sneaking around the rear of the house. As h turned the corner, he found himself face to face with the prowler. Instinctively he swatted the man in the head with his gun hand. The firearm discharged by the bad guy's head.

He then held the man at gunpoint until the police arrived. When the police took the perp into custody, they were upset because he had crapped his pants when the firearm discharged beside his ear.

Note: it is never a good idea to go outside your home to confront a prowler.