Expect This in a Neighborhood Near You
October 17, 2011, Submitted by: Ken Tweet
This is going to happen more and more in even small towns and rural areas as the economy continues to sour, unemployment rises, and people, even some without prior criminal pasts, get more and more desperate. Expect this in a neighborhood near you.
From just the past few days and a simple Google search (I’m sure there’s lots more…),
Homeowner shoots, kills suspect in home invasion (Beaumont, TX)
…two men with handguns forced their way into his home and demanded money. The man said he struggled with the attackers and was able to get a gun. He fired at the men and struck one in the chest.
Burglary suspect picks the wrong home for break-in attempt (Warren, OR)
…homeowner opened fire when he was awakened by an intruder trying to get into his house. The intruder fled the scene.
Store clerk distracts armed robber long enough to pull gun and shoot (Cincinnati, OH)
…a man wearing a garbage bag walked in and demanded money. “I laid it on the counter and he demanded more,” “He said, ‘Now I want the rest,’ and he puts the gun up in my face.” Matthews said he held the money in his left hand and tried to distract the robber. “I knew his eyes would follow the money, and I said, ‘I have more hidden here,’ and when I reached down, I grabbed my pistol and started firing”
Elderly ND man hold intruder at bay with handgun (Jamestown, ND)
…man’s wife was awakened by a loud noise about 4 a. m. Wednesday and saw someone in the house. Her husband grabbed a handgun and held the intruder at bay until officers arrived.
Suspect Shot During Attempted Robbery Dies (Buffalo, NY)
…two men had originally approached the 71 year old victim, as he got out of his vehicle in his nearby driveway just after 12:30pm. They robbed the victim of an undisclosed amount of cash. However, the victim pulled out a gun, which he possesses legally, and a struggle ensued with the suspects. During the struggle, one shot was fired, and the two suspects fled on foot. The one suspect, who had been shot, collapsed…
Another burglar shot inside a home (St. Louis, MO)
…the property owner, who is 66, returned home and caught the man inside. he ordered the intruder not to move, but the intruder started coming toward him. In fear for his safety, the victim fired a shot at the suspect, striking him in the shoulder. The man died at a hospital.
Women took action against would-be assailants in separate incidents (Detroit, MI)
…a 70-year-old woman was inside her home on the city’s northwest side at about 12:50 p.m. when two men — one of them described as between 15 and 18 years old — tried to break in through her window. The woman was waiting for them, police said. “The victim … fired shots,” the suspects fled.”
…two hours after the thwarted break-in, a 40-year-old woman got into a gunfight with two men who tried to carjack her, according to police. Two armed men approached the driver and demanded she surrender her vehicle. At some point during the attempted carjacking, the suspects, one of whom was described as a 17-year-old boy, fired shots. “(The) victim … returned fire,” the police report said.
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the police can’t be everywhere…
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And if the anti-gun people had their way, all those people could have been victims.
Average police response time…7 minutes. Average .45APC response time, 850 feet per second.
@All; Violence of action is what you’re talking about. Be armed, be trained, be ready, make sure of your target; and inflict pure, unadulterated, plasma-hot, overwhelming, VIOLENCE OF ACTION. If I’m not on a plane, I’m armed. If guns aren’t allowed there, I don’t go there. Get a CHL, CCW, CWL, whatever, if needed, and carry, carry all the time that you can and practice as much as you can afford. There is a book written by LtCol. Jeff Cooper titled “To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth”. It offers some philosophical insight into the character necessary to be the hunter and not the hunted. Enjoy.
@TripodXL. Your comments always seem to get right to the point and make so make sense. There is so much more to self defense, and a huge part of that is ATTITUDE. People can go out and practice and own all sorts of weapons and become experts, marksmen, and handle a weapon like a professional. Then when it comes down to it when they are faced with a life and death situation they hesitate for a second or two because they are unwilling to use a weapon to defend their life and they become a victim.
I cannot tell you how many people that I have known that are well cooridinated and had an eye to use any reasonable firearm and if they were faced with some lunatic that was going to hurt them, rape them, or kill them, they would freeze up and fail to pull the trigger in time and the nut job would take their weapon away from them and use it on them. Well, I can tell you that many people have pepper spray and will freeze up in fear of burning someone’s eyes. Part of this are these bleeding hearts that put a guilt trip on society that you are not suppose to hurt anyone, even to defend yourself, let the courts decide it. This infects people with doubt, like a disease, whether they are suppose to or have the right to defend their lives. Like their lives are not worth that much.
People have to realize that so many victims HAD weapons, but they just could not use them for moral reasons, for fear of killing another human being, or they just stop in their tracks like a deer with bright headlights. I suggest that everyone should have some means of defending themselves, but be willing no matter what to use that weapon to save their lives, their lives that are a hell of a lot more valuable than some criminal scum that wants to end their lives and probably will harm or kill many other innocent people that could have been stopped.
TripodXL, you know what drives me crazy are those movies in which the person hits the psycho over the head and then walks away, or sits there weeping and the psycho gets back up and gets them. I know it is just a fictional movie, but this is real life. When you are defending your life you do it with extreme prejudice so the criminal element that is wanting to take your life or hurt you so you are in the hospital for months, STAYS DOWN. You don’t have any doubts either, you balk for a fraction of time and are unsure that your life is not worth it enough to stop a criminal, you could be a victim that did not have to be.
I rather have a 90 year old person that cannot shoot too straight but is fully willing to try to save my life from some crazed individual than someone that is 30 years old and can shoot a falling nickel at 50 yards that won’t shoot a criminal maniac because they don’t believe in taking anyone’s life no matter what, or they completely freeze up during any stressful situation.
TripodXL, very excellent comment as people that THINK they are ready are actually not. It is a philosopical insight like you said, AN ATTITUDE, that prevents someone from hesitating, that has a person that will try to save their life and or those lives of the people around them without any doubt.