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Originally Posted by Zethrynn
Well if they allowed you to kill intruders in you'r house it would be a great way to get rid of someone you didn't like.
"Sorry officer he broke in and threatened my family, i had to shoot him, see that knife laying beside him"
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Obviously an investigation would happen in that case. I've had a police officer tell me here that if someone broke into my house basically do this:
1) Warn the person that you are armed with a firearm
2) the weapon (more of a secondary warning) If you have time
3) give them one more warning to get down on the ground
4) if they attack or come at you then defend your life
Now here is the disgusting part
He also said if you wound someone make sure it is center mass, if they survive they could sue you for medical bills. I'm sorry, I love my life, and my fiance. I still struggle with the idea that if it were my or Katie's life or his then I would have to end his. I don't ever and I mean ever want to point my weapon at someone out of aggression.
I've taken Katie to the firing range and showed her how to fire the shotgun and pistol. She is good enough with the shotgun and horrid with the pistol. I will keep taking her for practice. She is an anti gun type of person but understands that might be the only thing that saves her life or stops someone from raping her. It's a sad world we live in today, but you have to protect yourself.
Right now I work all kinds of weird hours all night to 2nd shift or 3rd or even 16 hours straight. I'm also a full time student so I cant be at home all the time. So we have a Mossberg .20 gauge loaded up with one in the chamber and 5 in the tube under her side of the bed. When I get home I put my pistol in the night stand next to the bed and it stays there until we leave the house.
when we both are gone I take all the ammo out of the shotgun and lock it with a chamber lock and put it in the safe.
Gun safety is really important to me, but it does take a lot of responsibility to carry one. I'm not some John McClean running around going nuts shooting people, I have a very expensive holster that you wouldn't know that I every have it on me. I've only pulled it out once out of fear (earlier story) and had to disarm myself twice when I was pulled over.
The police man walked to the car and I explain that I have a weapon that is loaded on me and the reason why I haven't got any of my information out was because I wanted him to know. Then he asks me to get out of the car ( they most of the time have their pistol out for their own protection) so I get out and tell them where it is and they disarm the weapon. He then takes the pistol to his car and runs the id number and takes my pistol permit and the rest of my information.
This isn't something to take lightly, I wouldn't kill someone for a $100 stereo, or 90 % of the stuff in my house. But as soon as someone would endanger my pets or fiance or family then I would do my best to defuse the situation before I would ever pull the trigger. I never ever ever ever want to take someones life.
I hope this makes sense.
