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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
You can't give then the benefit of the doubt, or try to get into their heads and assume that they're going to act in a rational matter.
The whole freeze I have a gun thing only works in movies if someone enters the room that you're in and you're protecting a baby then you don't give them the benefit of the doubt that they're going to act rationally, and you don't make the assumption that you have the drop on him.
Not to be crude, but you eliminate the threat and secure against the next threat. And if you're going to shoot someone that's attacking you in your home, then you shoot center mass to put them down permanently.
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I am not saying what she did was wrong, I am saying what she and they did was odd.
If you hear someone at the door trying to break in and you have a hand gun and a 12 guage you might wait a few seconds or minutes to see if they go away, but if it is clear they are going to get in and you arn't planning on hiding or running away then most anyone would shout at them, 'I have a gun and I have called the police' or something like that, not because it is for sure going to scare them off, but because it probably will scare them off and even if it doesn't you are no worse off. It is almost a natural reaction, like my dog puffing up his hair when he thinks hes going to fight. Hell if you were thinking clearly you would rack the gun by the door so they could hear it.
Secondly she apparently shots him not when he first enters but as he's advancing towards her inside the house with a knife, who the hell, in Oklahoma, sees a women with a 12 gauge and doesn't run like a #######?
The story doesn't make sense, I don't know why this mook felt clearly that she wouldn't call the cops or shoot him, but he obviously felt for some reason those options weren't open to her, he was wrong, but my guess is this was a hell of alot less random than it first appears.
On a lighter note, she is 18 her deceased husband was 58!