When discretion truly is the better part of keeping your arse alive...

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So Saturday morning I'm putting up a garage door and I receive a call from one of my tenant's that her live in boyfriend is ransacking the place. She says he has a knife and then the phone went dead. Called 9-1-1. Met the officers at the location (good thing too, becuase nobody was answering the door and if I didn't arrive with keys shortly, they were going to bust down the door!).

Seems my tenant and her beau have split the joint (later we find out there are reasons she wanted to avoid the police). In the meantime, his 2 brothers show up and start creating a scene in the front yard of my rental (Yes, on my property!). One has his hand in his pocket. As the screaming and yelling escalates, I move into the unit for a little extra protection. But as I'm watching through the front window, one brother pulls his hand from his pocket and surprise, surprise, surprise, there's a small pistol in his hand. Since the other brother has positioned himself between me and the gun-toting brother, I move farther back into the unit to increase the number of walls between me and them. I hate not being able to see what's going on, but damn, I don't want to catch a stray one.

Nothing came of it except for my extreme adrenaline rush. And after I had calmed down I realized that per the laws of my state, I could have shot and killed the brother with the gun and been totally within the law (and knowing my county's prosecutor, I probably would have been thanked!) I have never before been in a situation as close to shooting a man as that.

Here's where the title comes in: there were at least 3 other people in the suburban that gun-toting brother drove up in. While I probably would have had no problem getting off a shot safely on the brother, heaven only knows what would have transpired after that. Imagine at least 3 big dudes pulling their own pieces.

Scary stuff.

The irony: the police were right behind the house in the alley trying to catch my tenant who had a warrant out for her arrest!!!!! :what:
 
Definately agree there. Cops were there, its their job to control the situation and your job to extricate yourself from the problem.

One carries a gun so they can defend themselves when the cops can't be there. But in this one, the cops were there. Good call.
 
Well done!

Another call to 911 was warranted or pehaps a jog to the back to yell for the police.
 
Just a point of clarification: the police were in the vicinity, but I did not know that one was in the alley behind the house until after the fracas had ended. So for all intents and purposes, no police were present.
 
Running away is often the smart thing to do. Can't fault you at all.

Don't worry, somebody who's never been in danger in their life will be along shortly to insult you and question your actions. This is the internet after all. :)
 
yo yo yo G i'dve whipped out my ultra-tac glock fawty and laid some bustaz down fo realz g

dayumn

good job, nobody dead is a good result IMO
 
I don't know who to attribute this quote to, but i've heard it said and seen it written that yours is the best example of the way to win a gunfight...avoiding one in the first place. Good job imo.
 
ARperson:Add my vote to those who say ya done good.
Lou629:Donno who said it first but my old sensi used to tell us "The fight you avoid is the fight you win".
All:This thread is an excellent reminder that our weapons & fighting are the LAST resort;not the first.
 
You did fine.
If you are carrying you should always try to avoid confrontation. Even if it means swallowing your pride.
A firearm is the last measure after everything else fails. Lesser people do not understand this simple concept.
 
I'd have turned on the yard sprinklers :evil:

Okay, just kidding. I agree with the others that you did the right thing and I'm very glad you were uninjured.
 
When I was a lad, moving through the halls of learning, my dad told me more than once that "...he is the bigger man that walks away from a fight."

This from a combat infantryman in WWII who not only was decorated for his heroism in battle, but spent time as the head non-com in a POW situation toward the end of the war.

You did good, friend.
 
Life is good!

1: You are alive.

2: You are not injured.

3: You didn't go to jail.

4: You didn't go to the hospital.

5: You didn't get sued.

6: You don't have the BG's thug buddies after you for revenge.

What's not to like?:D
 
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