Posted on 01/04/2015 6:13:11 AM PST by marktwain
An Arkansas burglary victim's pistol did not fire when he intended it to, because the safety was on, and he did not realize it. Wayne Murrey, above shows some tactical sense as he cautiously peered through a doorway, exposing little of himself while he looked to determine what was happening. When he saw that a curtain was disturbed, he realized that someone was trying to break in. That is when he accessed his firearm. From katv.com:
“I got up, walked over here and I peeked like this, and I see the curtain kind of pulled back a little, so I said to myself...somebody is trying to break into the home,” said Murrey.
“I didn't want to make an example out of nobody's child and I didn't want it to be...you know it could have been me at one time...but God saved me.”Perhaps God will work a miracle in Giles life. Wendell Hilton Giles came very close to losing it. Murrey was aiming at his head, and the shot was not a long one.
Like the cop in Berkeley, Missouri that would be dead if the punk thug knew the safety was on on his stolen Hi-Point
Wheel gun for the nightstand
Cocking the hammer improves gun control..
“Eez gon! Eez not safe!”
A Glock might have helped.
Competition shotgunners, particularly those shooting live bird (pigeon) competitions, often have guns custom built without a safety, or altered to disengage the safety. Nothing like standing there squeezing the trigger and watching the target fly out of sight.
If anything, they should have a "remain silent" policy with regard to a homeowner protecting himself. Criminal....just criminal.
OMG, you mean never having fired even one round through the weapon, perhaps never having even used a firearm, this jamoke thought he’d go out an cap a cracker cop? What a moron.
“Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!”
But...but...Dindu Nuffin was “turning his life around”
Perhaps after dialing 911 he should have put the phone down and dealt with matters at hand.
Shooting at a cop with the safety on will definitely turn your live around in a millisecond.
If a home invader has breached your perimeter, the time to call 911 is well past. You are on your own and are responsible for your own safety.
Perhaps you can fall on your knees and beg for mercy, as that does as much good as “don’t shoot” advice from a phone operator.
US law enforcement IS NOT responsible for the safety of US citizens, the SCOTUS has explicitly ruled on the subject.
While they may have some brief training, dispatchers are not cops.
One of our local small town dispatchers was just working there part time from her regular job at Burger King
Or a Sig P220.
Condition 1 is safe and ready, all the time.
Including a 6-point bull elk I had my sights on my very first time hunting.
I pulled the trigger. Nothing. Panicked, I re-chambered my rifle, ejecting a perfectly good round before I realized what was going on and lost the shot. To make matters worse, I was down in a meadow and within the range of fire for the rest of our hunting party, preventing them from taking a shot. To add a final insult to injury, that was the only bull elk anyone saw the whole week we were up there.
I never went elk hunting again.
Yet, when you call 911 you expect some sense of knowledge and definite authority, don’t you? That’s certainly what I’d be arguing as a plaintiff’s lawyer when my client (or his estate) would be suing them for willful and negligent conduct with respect to an ill-thought standing policy.
If they cannot act in that capacity, then they should just keep their mouths shut about legal use of force in a homeowner invasion situation, IMO.
This is why I carry a S&W 340PD revolver or a Glock (30, 26 or 42, depending on clothing). When cops are minutes away, milliseconds count.
Yeah, I’m wondering if the dispatcher actually went outside the parameters of their job by saying that. Maybe he/she was of a certain ethnicity.
I had an interesting conversation with a local county dispatcher back on the evening of Dec. 7. Someone over at my drug dealing neighbor’s yelled over the fence to call the POlice. Being the bleeding heart idiot that I am, I dialed 911. I spent the next 20 minutes on the telephone with the dispatcher while awaiting the Deputy to make an appearance. We live in a big county with an undermanned Sheriff’s Dept. While the dispatcher was polite and pleasant, he seemed a little upset that I had bothered him. But the capper was when He asked if there were any firearms involved. I told him, I had no idea but I was armed. Just as a courtesy for the responding deputy. Then the dispatcher asked me, how many firearms I had in the house. At that point I told him it was none of his damn business and hung up. Next call went to the County Supervisor. I and other POed residents of this area have a meeting with him and either the Sheriff or the Chief Deputy scheduled.
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