Dial 911 and Wait
Found at Michael Bane’s Blog.
Powerful
Remember, when seconds count, police are only minutes away.
Powerful indeed. If I understand the sequence of events correctly, she did almost everything right.
1. She obtained a weapon and learned how to use it
2. She called 911 (protected herself from the legal system)
3. She moved herself as far away from danger (protected herself again from the legal system)
4. She used lethal force when it became absolutely necessaryHer only misstep occurred prior to the event. She gave the legal system too many chances before going out and purchasing personal protection.
I agree completely, although I might have added one thing had it been me in that room:
3.5 I would have called out when he started on the bedroom door, “Go away! If you come in this room, I WILL KILL YOU. This is your only warning.”
But then again, I’m in Texas. The Texas legal system gives me the right to have blown holes in him the moment he entered my home by force. The only reason I’d give him until he got in the room is out of respect for my father’s teaching: “Never shoot blind. Never just shoot at sound or movement. Too many hunters have been killed by their friends. KNOW what you’re aiming at.”
She’d filed charges on the guy how many times, six? Hell, if the speed freak can sue her dealer, why can’t this woman sue her city and state government for reckless endangerment?
Not good enough Grumpy. I’d have killed him when he broke the window. My wife says she’d have shot when he was beating on the back door. (I love my wife, shoots through the door, asks questions later...) She says she would never have retreated to an upstairs room...no way out if things go wrong…
Two things come to mind here.
A) Several Supreme Court decisions have held that the State (ie: the police) has no responsibility for your personal protection. They exist to ‘keep the (generic) peace.’ The police are a reactionary force. They can only act after the crime has been committed.
B) Therefore, self-defense is your individual responsibility. Get as good a firearm as you can afford: learn to use it: hit what you shoot at.
Also, I never ‘shoot to kill’, (’cept if I’m hunting.) I only ‘shoot to stop’. Makes a difference in court after the fact. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, eh?) Of course, they are semantically the same. As my counselor (an ex-Marine) once told me: “Two to the chest, one in the head: Stopped by definition.”
And of course, this never gets shown on MSM-news (or even Fox thus far as I can tell). Of course had it been death of an innocent by a gun, the MSM would be playing it 24/7 with the Brady-Bunch all over it.
Posted by museofcheerios
01/13/2008 at 11:36 PM
If the corpse lands outside the house, you’ve given the prosecution ammo against you. Gotta either wait for him to get all the way inside, or go out and DRAG HIM IN. I’m old, I have a bad back, and I’m too damn lazy to go out and drag corpses.
And to be honest, it wouldn’t have happened anything like that for me, because I don’t own any guns, nor do I really want to. My love is blades. I also have a knack for remaining unnoticed when I wish, a skill picked up when I was an *unarmed* security guard in a bad neighborhood. I’ve had people walk by me at less than 3 feet and have no idea I was there.
Had he come through my window, he’d have had just about enough time to recover his balance, look around and wonder where I was. About that time he’d have felt the edge of a post-Roman Celtic leafblade with an edge you can shave with (ah, my sweet Lady MacBeth, the love of my life. Yes, I named my sword, get over it) at his throat, and heard my voice behind him saying, “Boy, did you EVER screw the pooch this time.”
“Actually no, officer, I never swung at him. I had it at his throat and told him to stand still. He tried to twist away while he had a razor against his carotid. Dunno what to tell you officer. I call it evolution in action, myself.”
Stop it, Grumpy! You’re cracking me up!
Reminds me of the old joke:
Quaker to burglar: “Friend, I would do thee no harm, but thou standest where I’m about to shoot.”
I just realized who you remind me of Grumpy. I don’t suppose you’re a fan of James Axler’s Deathlands books? You remind me of Trader in those books. Do you own an Armelite?
Never heard of James Axler, nor do I have the foggiest clue what an Armelite is. Guess I’m gonna have to go shopping for a new author now. It’s about time, I’ve read and reread pretty much everything all my favorite authors have written.
Just hit JamesAxler.com. An Armelite is just some variation of the AR-15. Trader’s version fires 9mm instead of the usual 5.56mm NATO rounds. The Deathlands series are set about 100 years after the nuclear war that began 1/20/2001. You remember that? No, I don’t either.
Good reading, except for the violence, sex, violence, sex, more sex, violence.
Did I mention the violence and sex? I did? Good.
Anyway, the Deathlands are up to #80 now. I’ve got up to #79, which I’ve yet to read myself.
Here in Washington state things are about as lefty lib as one gets. Yet, a guy shot and killed a burglar who was climbing OUT of the window of his home. Went to court and was acquited. Not sure I actually like that in that the fellow testified that he knew the burglar, a 17 year old kid, was running off. I think I would not have done so.
In this woman’s case, tho, In Washington, a woman is always assumed to be at disadvantage in the disparity of force arena. Whereas I MIGHT wait for a bad guy to get inside before taking my S&W or (Grump!) my Sykes to him, a woman has no such limitations.
Hmmm… it’s obvious that Washington’s legislators haven’t met the same women I have. Sweet, wonderful, delightful ladies.... until you make them feel angry or threatened, at which point as the saying goes, “Katie bar the door.”
Thank you Rickvid, that makes me feel extraordinarily blessed.
01/11/2008 at 06:50 PM
