Ok, if I shouldn't _shoot_ the intruder, then...?

FTR, the one time I did have a burglar enter my home while I was there, I was in the shower at the time. He ended up getting very badly beaten by a naked, dripping wet man. I did my very best to beat his chemically altered ass to death, but he escaped through the same door by which he had entered. The only reason I didn’t use a gun was because he was between me and where I stored the only gun I owned at that time.
The very next day I went out and bought a bathroom gun.*

*-One made from stainless steel and synthetics so as to resist corrosion.