My plan is to be in the bathroom with my wife behind me. If you get to that point, Im shooting. Im armed and so is she, so I think the only likelyhood of us to stop shooting is because we have been shot. (Roadwild17)
Until you've been shot at, you don't really know what you're going to do...........I've been shot at one time, and I know how I reacted. My 2 boys were with me, and surrender was not on my mind. (Clarence)
Nice try, but I've been in both scenarios, at the same time. And it's nice to plan how you can protectyourself from home intruders, if it happens at home. What about somewhere else?
This is a true story. It happened in Burbank, CA in 1981.
My wife, our baby and I were at her parent's house. Only the three of us were there. The baby was in a playpen in the hallway. We were in the shower, about 15 feet from the baby.
Suddenly the bathroom door opened, and an intruder is standing there with a .22 revolver, telling us to get out of the shower. (He was an ex-boyfriend of my wife's sister, and he was VERY drunk). Both naked, my wife and I obviously had nowhere to hide a weapon, and being in another person's house, we did not have anything stashed in the bathroom. And the BG was between us and the baby. So much for me being a hero; all we could do was comply.
He let us get dressed, but kept the gun on the baby. Then he stepped back behind the playpen, told me to pick the baby up, and made us go sit on the couch in the living room. He sat across the room from us, never dropping the weapon from our direction.
He made me keep the baby in my lap, and he was about 20 feet away, so I couldn't jump him if I wanted to. He stated that his intent was to hold us until her sister would go back to him.
We spent the next hour trying to beg him to call it off and go home. He started nodding off, but something startled him and the gun went off, hitting about 4 inches from my leg. Then, he told me to go to his car in the back alley for a pack of cigarettes. Luckily I was able to signal a neighbor to call the police.
When I went back inside, (I did not have access to a weapon in the meantime and my family was inside with this ass), I had to hold the baby again.
About 5 minutes later, the cops showed up. They looked through the window, saw the guy holding a gun on us, and yelled for him to drop it. Thankfully, he complied, and no one got shot.
I won't go over the legal crap except to say that the prick got away with it in court. Three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, three counts of kidnapping, and discharging a firearm, with police as witnesses, and he walked. (Welcome to California)
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My point is that you can prepare for things, but not everything.
I've run the scene through my mind countless times. If I should have done this or that. If I should have been more cunning. If I had tried to go from the back alley, around the house to my car to get my weapon, and confront him. What then? He still had a gun on my family. The macho attitude is okay, if you have a chance. I didn't. Not with a gun pointed at my baby's head.
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Just my 2 cents worth!