Lets all get real. If you catch someone breaking into your home at 3 am and shoot them, you are gonna be so scared and so out of your element that it is very probable they may get shot in the back. Its probable you wont even hit them (which is why I advocate the short barrel shotgun, but thats a different story). Devil is in the details with any situation. The difference between shooting them in the face and the back is literally about a quarter second or two blinks of your half awake ass at 3 am. I guess my point is this...if they are in your home with bad intent, then they get what they deserve. The buttmunch above who said its not right to shoot them in the back is living in a dream world where everything happens like in the movies. By the time your brain registers the threat and commands your finger to pull the trigger, the situation could have changed and guess what....a buckshot in the back. Either friggin way, I'd take my chances with a court any day of the week.
I'm not talking about a homeowner who is protecting their home. I am talking about someone who is shooting someone who is running away. If a homeowner shoots someone who is confronting them and then happens to turn, well then shame on the burgular. I have said repeatedly, that this is about a fleeing felon, I even used the example of the subject climbing out of a window and being shot in the back. Tell me please how you could mistake that for anything but someone fleeing?