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About 3 years ago, a guy broke into our garage and I held him until the police arrived with a pistol.
justanothersoul said:Reading the link to gun defensive stories provided above makes one thing very clear: things are seldom clear cut, black and white, good guy bad guy in real life. They're messy, gray, confusing and just kind of sad. It's tragic when an 18 year old girl gets shot in the face with a .45 because she tried to rob a pizza man with a bb gun. And as men and women of compassion we can't celebrate her demise---not even to champion our basic right of self-defense. We may carry a gun and be ready to use it if need be, but as decent men we must exercise the greatest level of restraint. We must be calmer, smarter and fairer than the average unarmed man. Because you and I, my friend, being decent honorable men, will need to live with ourselves after, and knowing we used our gun only when forced to, to save lives, will make our nights a lot easer to sleep through.
The wife one time, me three.
While living in NC, I worked on the road a lot. We had met some people that seemed nice enough. While I was out of town they invite wife and our son over for diner. About 7:00 in the evening wife and son return home. 20 minutes the 'dude' of the couple comes up the drive.
Came to the door and said he just 'wanted to talk.' My wife told him to go home. He want out to his truck and clicked the solenoid, but did not start the truck. In the mean time, my wife retrieved my 12g Mossberg 500.
The next day I went to the police station. I retrieved my gun (no ammo)