The Disney versionIt is kinda funny (but a little frustrating) to see people posting how THEY would have handled things differently in Wafer's position.
It misses the point in many ways.
These people were NOT THERE and do not seem to have the wit or the imagination to appreciate what it might have been like for Wafer.
There may well be various ways of dealing with any situation... all reasonable. It is only in
hindsight that people are claiming one to be preferable to another.
Besides, in the heat of the moment individuals may well react in ways a little "unreasonable"/unwise... but not to the level of being reckless or in some way "criminal"
I have seen variations on the claim by people that they would stay calm, talk to the person at the door, but keep door shut. Phone 911 and tell the person help was on the way.
GREAT! PERFECT! If Disney were making a fictional version that might work 
I think there is a HUGE lack of empathy and imagination of what the events may have been like for Wafer.
Awoken at 4:30 am with banging (and shouting) from multiple directions.. an apparent assault on his home by perhaps multiple people determined to get in. The "fairy tale" scenario posters seem to imagine (despite the 4:30 am time) this to be a polite young lady merely knocking on the door to politely ask for help.
As an aside: Exactly WHAT help she might have been seeking is hard to fathom. She had turned down first aid, and assistance from people with phones, not to mention the professional medical help that had been summoned. Exactly what "help" do people think she was seeking 3 and a half hours later?
So, the reality is a VERY scary scene for Wafer. In hindsight he would have been better off finding his phone... though how could he KNOW that at the time. His phone was NOT readily at hand.. and people are smashing their way into his home. In his mind .. no time to find phone and make a call. He would certainly have felt the need to cope himself while making the call.
It seems reasonable to me that a person in that situation would arm themselves straight away, while trying to find out exactly what was happening. Why in heavens name would anybody OWN a gun if not to use it in just such a situation? It also seems reasonable for him to have opened his front door to be able to SEE who and what was outside. He may well have felt that he was "safe" behind a locked screen door. Again in
hindsight the screen door is of very flimsy construction, but I imagine that Wafer thought he would be "safe" behind it. Again, again in
hindsight, and as an aside: A lesson from these events is that a screen door offers ZERO protection.. else RM would still be alive. Wafer WAS very unwise to rely on the protection of the screen door, but that is is NOT a criminal or even reckless act on his part. Just an an example of life's "live and learn" aspect.
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