I agree with all the comments re: Monday Morning Quarterbacking.
Learn from this incident and move forward.
For my part, this is a lesson to me that at my age I have to be properly armed if I get up to investigate something suspicious.
It reminds me of the scene from
The Godfather where Michael is preparing to deal with the guys who set up the ambush on his father.
Sonny Corleone tells one of his henchmen something like
"Make sure you get the gun in there!
I don't want my brother to come out of the john with nothing but a stick in his hand!"
Ok, that's the cleaned up version.
