Skull Pilot
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If, in the obvious confusion and stress of a situation like an intruder (you added the hyperbole about rape and arson, but let's play along), you decide the best course of action is to fire your semi-automatic handgun with a 30 round clip, I'd say (as most reasonable people might) that there would be MAYHEM.I'm talking about blame for the mayhem. You're over reaching to find some political point that just ain't there. You will serve yourself better if you just read what's in front of you and stop stretching a point to the breaking point.
So it's mayhem to shoot a fucking criminal breaking into your home so as to rape your wife and burn your house down?
A person defending himself does not cause mayhem because anything he does is caused by the fucking criminal who is violating the rights of the victim.
Or, in your world, does this scenario just add up to a typical Wednesday?
Be honest
Mayhem | Define Mayhem at Dictionary.com
may·hem
   /ˈmeɪhɛm, ˈmeɪəm/ Show Spelled[mey-hem, mey-uhm] Show IPA
noun
1. Law . the crime of willfully inflicting a bodily injury on another so as to make the victim less capable of self-defense or, under modern statutes, so as to cripple or mutilate the victim.
2. random or deliberate violence or damage.
3. a state of rowdy disorder: Antagonisms between the various factions at the meeting finally boiled over, and mayhem ensued.
You can see from the definition that a victim of a crime who is defending himself or another cannot cause mayhem.
The intruder is causing the mayhem. The homeowner who shoots the motherfucker breaking in is ending the mayhem.