That is exactly how I avoided trouble a few years ago. Crackhead breaks into my car alarm goes off. I grab my little .22 and confront crackhead. Dude makes a run at my with a screwdriver so I shoot him in the leg. He turns to run shoot him in the arse. Did not say anything about this when I called the cops I only wanted one patrol car at my house. So when he ask if I could ID him I told him to check the hospitals the told him about the screwdriver and how he got one in the arse after he threw it at me. Needless to say I still had to drive myself down to the station and answer questions for awhile. They run my registration etc, find the crackhead. All is fine. In retrospect I should have sued the crackhead for the .35 for my two bullets.