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Shadow, LightingJoe,
My criticism is not aimed at the woman but at my fellow highroaders who seem a little blood thirsty. The moment news like this one hits the board people just go nuts as if living in the victim some unfulfilled fantasy. There is nothing to be learned from the experience of this woman or how she handled the situation. Every text book mistake is in her scenario but somehow she is a hero. Are our standards so low? Are we so eager to shoot someone, maybe even provoke a situation and call it self defense. I'm not.
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I think that your statement is VERY wrong on the people who posted here, including perhaps what I wrote previously on this thread, but you have the right to your own opinion.
Unfulfilled fantasy?!? Go nuts? Eager to shoot someone? Blood thirsty? Provoke a situation? He was the bad guy not her! Etc.?
Geesh, if I didn't know better I would think that this is a page out of a Brady Bunch media release! NO offense.
I would write a long post about my experience/situation but I have already written it on this board and on other boards in the past. I did not go OUTSIDE @ 1:15AM but I did have the firearm ready, I did have my German Shepherd, I did have all of the security items, I did have to dial O for operator since there was no 911 back then and in my rural area, the operator and the Sheriff's HQ stayed on the telephone with me, etc. I did all of the 'right' things @ 1:15AM. I didn't go looking for trouble but I sure as H would not have backed away if the 2 guys decided to try to come through my front or back door or through any window. I did not lust for blood and I did not shoot anyone. The response time was 45 Minutes! I just don't think it is quite 'normal' for 2 guys to pull up in a lady's driveway, close up to the garage and turn off their headlights @ 1:15AM. I had private property signs and NO trespassing signs up too. I lived very rural... country road off of many country roads. My late husband was overseas at the time. WE had a previous attempted break in (In our breezeway, he did not get in our house or garage.) that same year in BROAD daylight while we were at work. My GS dog nailed/chewed up the criminal and he was later caught. The criminal was a man who robbed many places in that rural area when people were gone @ all hours. Homes, especially new homes-ours was NEW, farm houses and barns with elderly people and some rural businesses.
If it was BROAD daylight and I had to go to work in the city or mow my lawn... I would call for the sheriff's department back there if the people seemed suspicious... otherwise I would go out and ask what someone was doing in my driveway, on my property, with my firearm and my GS dog, etc. I have questioned people in the past on my OWN property/land in broad daylight and I did not call the deputies every single time I found a trespasser or a 'township' man working on my grass putting up a sign close to the VERY rural road. It depended on the situation.
Some of us would have handled some points a BIT differently but the point is this: Lady = victim in this case. Man = criminal in this case. He had NO business being there, if he was there by mistake and was so innocent - why ATTACK her? He attacked her, he wanted to steal from her and perhaps even do more harm to her and anyone else around there.
If a person roots for the good gal or guy who is a victim and is ticked off at the criminal... I see nothing wrong with that. Perhaps if more criminals knew that people were "mad as ___ and wouldn't take their threats, their preying on innocent people, their criminal activities/bull anymore" - they might just STOP IT, end up hurt or dead or live in fear because people like this lady would FIGHT BACK instead of rolling over and playing dead!
No offense but I do disagree with your analysis of the posters on this thread.
Catherine - Armed and Female
