Scary attempted home intruder story.

[steelslaver]

They do not have to take your computer to find the statements you made here or anywhere else on the net. Hardly. All a smart investigator would have to do is some computer searches on gun related sites. Besides getting a warrant isn't that difficult when investigating a homicide. Even if justifiable its still a homicide.

 

[Doug M.]

The ability to articulate why you consider a person's conduct a threat is important, and why I posted what I did above. A person may or may not actually be a threat - but that is not the test. It is the reasonableness of your belief about that person. And a person who is "just standing there" in your house should have had to force his way in to start; he should have had it made known he was unwelcome in some of the ways I have described; and you should have done enough of the reading I regularly suggest so that you can articulate how you knew that person could go from not moving to lethal threat in the briefest portions of a second.

This is serious stuff, and you need to study it well before hand, and incrementally improve your knowledge of these topics and the layered security of your home as you are able to (everyone has different incomes, needs for the money, etc; I have largely prioritized this stuff - I have no need for a boat, most vacations, and other fluff).

 

[Wise_A]

Thing about them "book" thingies is, they're really cheap.

 

[Gulfecho]

Dogs are a great first line of defense. Burglars often won't bother a house with a dog. They will go down the street to the house without one. In this case, he was not a burglar, but I wonder if he would have been so intent on gaining entry if one or two dogs were making a ruckus on the other side of the door, even small dogs...Any bad guy coming into my house better be wearing iron britches or he will resemble a lawn sprinkler the next time he drinks a glass of water...Bella will make sure of that...and Bella loves people and kids...but don't bring malice to the palace.

Generally I would agree with you. When it happened to me my gentle dog let out a wale at the front door at 4:00am that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. The would be intruder was not deterred. He continued his assault on my front door despite my dogs vicious bark and growl. It was a Crimson Lasor sight pointed through the front door glass that brought him to reality and he finally fled. Lack of logic in a criminal or disturbed mindset is often counter intuitive and can't be overstated.

 

[carpriver]

I am sorry this happened to you, but you handled it well. don't let other second guess you.

 

[TheHobbyist]

You did very well under tough circumstances and with wife and children at home.

I live in the country, not too far from the city, but far enough that strange things can happen.

I occasionally have a car drive past my house at night with their lights off, we get the high school or college kids that are drinking and driving and throw beer or other beverages out their window. We also get the odd person walking at 2 AM in front of our house. This is on the weekends and my wife is a night owl.

My wife has taken self defense classes and trained for an agency, but went a different career path. She has told me that in the few years we have been here, there have been men who parked outside our home (no other home for half a mile at least) and just watch her while she does yard work. When she realizes this, she stops what she is doing and heads into our home. Pay attention to your surroundings.

With the people that drive past occasionally without lights on, we turn all our outside flood lights on.

Thankfully, we have not had an issue yet.

Stay safe and be mindful of your surroundings my friends.

 

[Whitwabit]

Think before posting.

Anything you post here can and will be used in a court of law should you ever be involved in a altercation, home or away.

Even if you shoot someone braking down your door in a state where there is a castle doctrine, there WILL be an investigation, how much and how deep is up to your local authorities, but some of the statements people make would not appear in the best light to a prosecutor or a jury if it came to that point.

If you wouldn't say it with a dead guy, with YOUR bullet hole(s), laying in YOUR doorway, you probably shouldn't say it on the web for everyone to see, basically forever.

Yes, you might prevail in court, but, why even have the possible problem.

And do many know just what we would do ?? We think we know how we would act but till it happens we really just don't know for sure ..

We hear a lot of I would do this and that but through experience I have found that might not be near the truth when the nity grity gets down to it .. I've seen the people one would least expect loose it and do all the opposites .. So its best to keep ones thoughts to themselves sometimes ..