My wife was teasing me one day a couple of years ago when I was in the kitchen with my gun on my hip.
"Do you really think you need that in here?" she asked.
Yes. Yes I do.
Obviously, I hope to be safer inside my own home than out somewhere at a restaurant. But I read the news. And I am on the internet enough to see what kind of world we are living in now.
I explained to her that if I am in the kitchen, and someone kicks in the door, my gun is on the other side of the house. I may as well not even have one. I have friends who say if that happened to them, they would remain calm and reason with the person.
If someone is willing to kick you door in when they know you are home, there is no reasoning to be had. They are willing to commit a felony (they are likely armed, and that is not only breaking and entering, but armed robbery). They are willing to do bodily harm to you. And there are countless cases of people trying to reason with the intruder, and still winding up dead.
The story below is of two women who were killed by men running from the police. They were "safe" inside their homes.
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Two Florida residents, a mother and daughter, were brutally
murdered inside their home during a chance encounter with four armed and wanted
men after they wound up at the home during a crime spree and police chase.
These men were on the run after robbing a pawn shop, and
became trapped inside the residential development they happened upon during the
chase. Abandoning their vehicle, they burst inside the home of 51-year-old
Deborah Royal, and her mother 72-year-old Patricia Moran.
As police were setting up a perimeter around the home they
believed the men went into, a vehicle came right through the garage door.
Police fired at the vehicle before it quickly crashed.
Before the men tried to get away by ramming the garage door,
they brutally murdered the two women inside their home. The women were simply
inside their own home, and had no warning as to what was about to happen.
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Having a gun, and NOT having it on you is no help. The link below is of a video where a man and two friends are killed in a home invasion at 7:30 AM.
You can watch the video from an MSNBC news story. I WARN YOU -- it is graphic.
The homeowner had suffered break in burglaries, and had installed hidden cameras inside his home.
While he visits with his friends, a man comes to the back door, pointing a gun at him. Once inside, he hits the homeowner with the gun, and beats him while he is on the ground. The women are tied up while the thugs rummage through the home.
The homeowner owned a gun. But it was in the bedroom. He owned a CHL, and didn't feel a need to carry at home.
With the homeowner's own gun from the bedroom, one of the intruders shoots all three victims in the head. (He missed one of the women, but they are all three shot again by the first gunman).
These things happen. If you own a gun, please keep it on you, even at home. There are bad people everywhere.
Don't be another victim.
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