There’s a phrase that covers this sort of thing…

…um…Oh yeah! Darwin Award!

Realizing his home was being broken into, the homeowner yelled, “Don’t come in here, I have a gun!”.

Boyd, with his face covered by a bandana, ignored the warning and eventually “physically forced himself in through the front door,” Corinth Police Captain Dell Green said.

“A scuffle ensued,” said Dance, “and the intruder was shot three times, we believe. He then went out into the yard and fell.”

Chief Dance said Boyd had previously been arrested for burglary and robbery and had also been shot during a prior attempt a number of years earlier. That incident involved an elderly man who, after experiencing a prior break-in at his home, rigged his door with a homemade alarm system. When he heard the aluminum cans he had strung around the door rattling, he told the intruder not to come in, that he had a gun. Just like his final burglary attempt, Boyd went inside anyway.

He probably thought he was being brave. I can think of a different word.

Honestly, if forced to a prediction I’d have said anybody with two brain cells and a synapse in his whole head would have learned sufficiently the first time. But that’s why more people need to be willing to pull the trigger, I guess. Vacuum out the shallow end of the gene pool.