Yes, at my home just north of Houston I don't have other members of my unit to help protect me like I did in the military. Thus I have to muster every advantage I can because the average number of home invaders here in the last few years is 4+.
That was a typical way of getting in where I lived in Cali. A couple of experiences prior to my becoming a gun owner: One time a guy rang my bell at 5 a.m. I knew I better answer the door because normally BGs would first knock or ring to see if anybody is home, if no answer go around the back and break in. Like here I had security doors on that house, so I could open the wooden door and talk to him with no danger of him getting in. First question was whether I speak Armenian (lot of Armenians in the neighborhood), I said no, then he said he lives nearby and told a story about his wife was in a terrible car accident and he needs money for a taxi to get to the hospital. I asked why he picked my house, he said it was the only one with lights on. I really just wanted him to go away. I ended up slipping a $20 bill under the door, which if his story was true (highly unlikely) would have solved his problem, but if not he wouldn't have a reason to stay. Thankfully he left. Another time, much scarier, somebody was banging on the windows at the back of the house in the middle of the night (maybe 2 or 3 a.m.), I yelled out, a FEMALE said she "needs my help", and she's "not a bad person". I called 911, the dispatcher said stay out of view of any windows, it took a long time for police to arrive, the whole time I was still interacting with her, finally the dispatcher said they were almost there and I should yell "Police are on the way", which I did... by the time they arrived she was gone. Later I thought I shouldn't have said that, would have been better if they arrested her. (This was before catch and release took hold.)
Don't forget discrepancy of size, age, gender, and/or number.
A few years back, about 10:30 pm on a weeknight, I was at work and the wife had a guy pounding on the door (she'd already gone to bed as she got up for work at 0500). Talking to him through the door, he told her his car broke down and he needed to use our telephone (wife didn't think to ask why he didn't have a cell phone, though he'd probably said the battery was dead). We live on a dead-end road with only a handful of homes on a two-mile stretch in the woods. When my wife asked where his car was, he pointed down to the dead-end of the road. Now, he'd had to walk down our 200-foot driveway but no car in sight. She knew he wasn't a neighborhood resident and asked where he'd been; he replied at a "friends." So she asked the name of the friend (we know every name of the ten families) and he said something like "John." At this point, she'd recognized he was under the influence of meth, told him to leave or she'd have to wake up her husband and was calling the sheriff. This guy could hear two dogs barking inside, figured he'd fold his cards and left quickly. Later we found out two homeless tweakers were squatting on the one vacant plot a few hundred yards down the road and that two homes had been broken into -- and firearms and jewelry stolen. We pondered what the outcome would have been had he gone a couple houses down and woken up the older couple who were very nice, generous and a bit naive about the current drug culture and crime in the area.
Disparity of force is a recognized concept in self-defense cases. The intruder need not be armed with a deadly weapon.
A intruder in my home is not going to get a warning that I am armed I made many enemies while on the job with several who said in open court they would see me dead if they got out You do what you want/ me I am going to live. Yes I do take issue when death threats are made towards myself and family members that is more explaining than I have done in the last 20 years.
The guy in the video is an attorney who practices in Wisconsin. His shingle mentions DWI charges, criminal law including gun possession cases, family law.....,
The question was, what did you mean by "pure propaganda"?
To advise people in their own home that shooting a intruder in their home in the middle of the night without a warning may result in their arrest that is pure propaganda I am done explaining people who espouse that view certainly do not ever need to own a firearm.
People have been arrested for shooting others at all times of the day, with and without warnings. That is fact, not "propaganda".
It is a fact, not a "view" to be "espoused"
Eh? I have saved my life by using firearms on several occasions. I have never had to shoot.
No what your view is the Al Bragg rule a criminal is above reproach and to defend yourself within the confines of your domicile with deadly force in the middle of the night makes you a criminal like I stated which you clearly are avoiding is the fact I have not only a legal right to the amount of force within my home but a GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO DEFEND MY HOME. There are many on gun sites who espouse your point of view clearly a ANTI GUN VIEW in my opinion making it seem you must never fire or keep a loaded firearm within reach or to even own a firearm as I asked earlier why do you lock your doors if you don't plan on shooting???? One other thing give me some incidents lawful incidents where a homeowner was incarcerated for defending themselves from criminal activity in their own home.
That is exactly why I have USLawShield concealed carry insurance as well as have a lawyer on retainer with whom I keep in routine contact. Neither are that expensive. I am not advocating for this particular insurance company. I just think every law abiding American should invest a little and have a plan should something happen whether firearm related or not.
Training??? What is this training you speak of? Where have you trained? Who is teaching that you can shoot anyone in your home at any time without fear of legal repercussion? No competent attorney would? No reputable firearms instructor would. Did your "trainer" also tell you that if you shoot someone at the door to drag the body across the threshold so you're in the clear legally? I'm really curious to know who is teaching this.
So defending myself in my own home is now illegal yeah and ayoob I remember the conversation with him a few years back about hot loaded hand loads in your own house he danced around that when I asked for a court case where they were found in question to be too lethal and in fact illegal again he thanked me for my service and moved on the prosecution has heard me on several occasions including use of force incidents if you follow the continuum of the scale no problem.
You need to reread my comment mr white really you do and I am really curious as to why you have not only impugned my statement but are taking a adversarial stand to encountering an intruder in your home in the middle of the night if so do you lock your doors if yes why????
How do you know she did were you there?
You should have inferred, by the fact she had a tox report, the incident included law enforcement. It's a matter of record.
