Woman kills intruder wounds Hubby

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One more reason there's a gun on the coffee table, and a 90lb dog on the couch next to my wife.
 
Go Wife!!!! Sounds like she did great to me. If you asked me if I wanted to have my wife raped and lord know what to me and my kids... or... a shot in the arm? It's the arm everytime!:)
 
This is a good story for guys that don't want their wives to be proficient with guns. :)
I bet he wishes he took her to the range more often.

As for the comment about "idiots", I think if they were compliant sheeple would more fit that discription in my estimation.

Shooting at two rapidly moving bodies intertwined on the deck with one of them capable of killing you is more than a challenging shot.

We don't know the stature or ablilties of the BG, the husband, or the wife. Given a skinny assailant and a beefy husband, it may have been nearly impossible to miss her hubby. I am a better than average shot and not sure I could pull that off. She deserves a medal and so does hubby for jumping an armed assailant with little or no thought of his own personal safety. Idiots? I think not.

I do hope the round that wounded the husband did not go through the assailant's arm or something before entering the husband's arm.
 
Roses & Dinner

Hubby needs to treat wifey to roses & dinner.

And maybe a diamond.

And/or the handgun of her choice + CCW course.

Clearly she didn't get the memo: bad guys will just take your gun away and use it on you.

Anyone else notice that this kids slept through this!?
 
Everything worked out well in the end but I can't really say I think she "did good" without knowing more. She had the right attitude but had that bullet hit her husband's brachial artery, he could very well have died. I won't say she did bad either. It's possible that was the only feasible choice.
 
Armed intruder has just made the wife undress, her husband is wrestling with him on the floor, and the daughters are asleep in the back. She's standing there with a gun. What to do, what to do...
You know, if you stand there dithering, worrying about every possible complication, you've made a decision, whether you meant to or not. There are possible complications from everything you do, including doing nothing.
We can conclude that she did good, not because we know what the other outcomes were going to be, but because she achieved an acceptable outcome, when the next most likely outcome was unacceptable.
Maybe he just liked their clothes, and he was going to take them and leave. Is that more likely than a rape and a multiple murder?
My wife and my daughters? Take the shot, and keep shooting until the gun is empty or the armed robber is still. I'll take my chances.
 
Aye, story makes me happy :D refreshing after hearing all this talk about well meaning (but oh so naive) people getting killed in their own homes :(
 
I see no complaints about what she did. Would she have been better to wait and see if her husband lost the fight?

Good for the husband also for taking the chance to turn the tables and give her the chance to retrieve the gun.
 
These bandits are desperate and nervous. Give them what they want ...and fast. Don't hesitate.

What if what the intruder wants is to see the husband grovel helplessly and plead for his family's lives, as his wife and daughters are raped and then killed in front of him, and then to bludgeon him mercilessly before setting fire to the house to destroy all evidence?

Far-fetched? Maybe not. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=290958

pax
 
I would hope that more people look at this situation and have a plan of action in case something like this happens to them. My theory is if you think you have no way out, and death is probable, take as many BG's out as you can and hope for the best. Of course you could be passive and lose everything you worked hard for.......
Clearly she knew where and what to do with the firearm and took action, BG won't do that again now will he and as word gets around his friends will think twice about it. Thanks to them for one less BG in the world.
 
Good job on both their parts! The wife is a cool customer, and the husband deserves an attaboy here, too - saw an opportunity to turn the tables and took it.
 
Why would this incident be referred to a grand jury? Are all home defense shootings referred to a grand jury? Only those in which the BG is sent to his maker?
 
Sounds like a decent result.

Especialy if the guy the husband was fighting with still had a firearm and the only thing keeping him from using it was an ongoing struggle over it.

There is a timer counting down in such a situation. The amount of time on that timer is unknown, but it is counting down.

Better she stopped the bad guy and the one injury was to an arm of an innocent than she waited for the perfect shot and the bad guy regained control of his weapon and delivered some more lethal shots.

The wife didn't start the struggle. Her husband decided he had an opportunity as the bad guy enjoyed watching his wife undress contemplating who knows what. This while they had two young daughters in another room.
The husband initiated a countdown, and she had to act in time.

The wife then acted quickly, while her husband fought with a man holding a handgun.
It sure beats her running out of the home, or running to her children, or going and calling the police, or standing there unsure of what to do leaving him to possibly die unnecessarily as happens in those same type of situations all the time.

If the struggle lasted much longer someone would have gained control of the weapon the men were fighting over.
The wife's actions made sure the only person dying that night was the criminal in thier home holding them at gunpoint.

We would all be fortunate to have a wife act as she did in those circumstances.
 
What I think the worst part is that, in most places, people have to lock their doors.

Good for the family to come out ok and the BG died.
 
"Sounds like she did great to me. If you asked me if I wanted to have my wife raped and lord know what to me and my kids... or... a shot in the arm? It's the arm everytime!"

Eyesac, well said. I KNOW my husband would say the same.

A big thumbs down to the critical "armchair quarterbacking" in this thread.

She should have spent more time at the range? Give me a break :(
 
the thing most people fail to realize that is, nowadays there is no simple home burlgary where they take the money and leave you safe and sound.
Now adays the minute they get the jewels and the upper hand, they do lots of unpleasant things to the victims. Heck, the unlucky husband should be mighty happy no one else in his family was hurt by the home invader.
Yeah, the ACLU may say bad for shooting the robber, but at least he didnt get to add sex crimes and murder to his last night of crime.
 
Jeez people, lighten up! It was a tongue-in-cheek comment regarding a potentially tragic situation that turned out as a win for our side. Since I know nothing about them other than what was in that article, I have no way of knowing how much or how little training she may have had. I was in no way insinuating that what she did was in any way deficient.


However... :D


I think that this situation is a good reminder of why it is important to familiarize and, if possible, train everybody in the household on the use of the firearms in the house. A firearm is useless if the only person who knows how to use it, can't.
 
It's great to have backup! Sounds like some strong teamwork in that marriage to me.

I think it would be very interesting to follow up later with this couple and see how they respond longer-term to this situation vs the kinds of reaction/denial/etc that we often see from the learned-helplessness types.
 
I have to say, I believe in being armed and well trained, but I also believe that a good dog will stop most threats in your home before they get started. If the dog doesn't stop the intruder he/she will distract him long enough for you to make your first shot really count.

I have seen the alarming trend of rental units not allowing dogs larger than 15 to 20 pounds. That's not a dog, it's an upholstered rat.

I own a condo and rent it out and pay a second mortgage because the idiots of the condo association voted that you can't have a dog that is over 15 pounds. My cat weighs 15 pounds!:rolleyes:

My dog is very small for her breed (she's a rescue pup and was severely starved when she was young and it stunted her growth) she is a 96 pound Great Dane. My last dog was a Rottie (ei, a chainsaw on a pogo-stick). I've had big dogs all of my life, mostly shepherds, and, in this day and age of home invasions and rampant teens running the streets, I won't live where I can't have a protection animal.

That all being said, kudos to the wife in this situation. I have a great deal of combat training and can't say that I could have done better giving that the two men were wrestling over the perp's gun when she fired. The husband's arm will heal. He isn't angry, he's just glad that he and his family are all alive and well.

Good for him also. No offense, but it takes a good sized pair to grab a man who is holding a gun leveled at you, regardless of the distractions the perp may have. Brave man who also deserves to be praised for his actions.
 
Chibajoe, which range do you practice at which allows you to shoot at two men wrestling on the ground?

There's a joke about San Francisco begging to be made here, but I won't do it. ;)
 
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