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Lol

Ironically, a black swan isn't really at all - just unknown. Which really is Taleb's point: black swans aren't as rare as they are priced to be.

N-S aren't "right" though. The derivations make a lot of good assumptions that breaks down in certain materials/situations.

What is right is its starting point on the conservation of momentum and energy. Then it makes certain assumptions about the stress-tensor which are not necessarily true. Meaning, you can derive the N-S from consv. of mass and E and a certain stress tensor (ST), but its not derived from a universal ST.

Sure, but that'll get downvoted in a jiffy in HN.

There's always a risk of a fire.

And in our case the risk is huge.

His life doesn't have to be in danger to pull a gun!

1. He just has to justify that he had a reasonable fear for it. 2. Anyway he was protecting his property

In fact, he did a very honest thing: he brandished his gun. Which means he showed the would be criminals that he was packing.

Steps to shoot a would be assailant legally:

1. Show that you're packing 2. if the would be assailant doesn't leave, aim 3. if the would be assailant doesn't leave, shoot.

Its a very fast, but choreographed dance. The point of it being that you don't just get to shoot anyone right away, you have to give them a chance to bugger off. Which they did.

EDIT: I've never owned a gun and don't really want to own one (shooting is a lot of fun, but I don't want to be a gun owner). I might buy a .22 rifle (hardly relevant for this story)