I don't like the shooting in the foot thing though. Sends a wrong message. Should always shoot for center of mass.
Given the range and the fact that the kid was holding a gun, I likely would have gone for a head shot myself.
Given the personality of the person he plays on the show, the idea of him inflicting pain instead of death seemed believable, and less contraversial for the folks watching ....and much funnier.
I had a friend that went througjh a bit of hassle with the law after shooting a thief on his property. The thief tried to sue him for it but luckily? got nabbed for another offence out of town and missed the court date. So the case against my freind was eventualy dissmissed.
He had heard a noise durring the night, and ended up looking in his garage, an outside door to the garage was broken in, and he found a guy bent over inside his car trying to remove the radio.
He aimed his 38 snubnose at the only target available , and so at point blank, fired a round into the guys ass.
The crook turned around and he held him at gunpoint till the cops arrived.
He was asked why he shot the guy, and why in the ass from behind. He told the cops he just wanted to get the guys attention......
KM