welcome to third world America
Glad you all are okay.
This is right up your alley. As much as I know what is happening—and read your stuff—still not 100% prepared.
Am echoing BeadCounters thought. Glad you had a backup plan.
Please keep a pistol cocked and locked, or a shotgun, or a revolver, (whatever you’re comfortable with), within reach at all times. Hide a gun in every room so you aren’t forced to run.
PS: Glad you’re safe.
I’m glad you and your family were not hurt. And I’m glad the story had a SEMI-happy ending. A happier ending would have been four dead and/or wounded home-invaders.
Three minutes...wow.
Just like the cops always say, “When seconds count we’re minutes away”.
As a cop, let me tell you how lucky you are. If there’s a choice between calling 911 and grabbing a firearm, go for the gun and tell someone else with you to call 911. If for nothing else so the interaction can be recorded over the 911 system through the phone call. Glad you were able to escape. Keeping the door closed and asking who’s there in an authoritative voice might have made them move on. Going forward, maybe stronger doors and a noticeable sticker on the door referencing the owners are not to be trifled with. Nice job, though, given the circumstance.
Obama ‘dreamers’?
That is pretty scary. We put in a metal door with a reinforced frame several years ago. It at least gives you a couple of minutes to get to your weapon and dial 911.
You are right, it would have been better if you had armed yourself and called 911 sooner, but jumping out the window was still better than an armed confrontation. You did good.
9mm in the bedroom night stand with an extra mag, 38 in the desk drawer, both loaded with the nasty stuff, chambered and ready. Neither gun has a safety. No room for panic
The heavy hardware is in the safe. I do not keep them loaded & chambered like the handguns. But the safe is an electronic keypad that I can open very quickly and there are loaded 30 round magazines for the AR15 sitting next to it.
We live in a small town, most of our residential crime is penny ante car break ins and empty house break ins. If I decide that we have a need for more than the handguns, I will keep the 12 gauge pump out and loaded.
My wife is still getting early practice with the hand guns, but when it comes to the need to take out an intruder, I will bet she’s got bigger stones than he does. /grin
In addition to guns get a dog or 2 or 3 and teach them to bark like crazy when someone comes around. I have 3 mixbreeds (different combos of Chow/Shepherd/Pitbull/Husky) from the pound and if someone comes around it sounds like I got a whole herd of killers inside.
Isn’t illegal immigration just grand? Diversity is our strength, pfffttttt.
Glad you are all ok.
HOWEVER!!!
Since dear old hubby was NOT home, why did YOU not have YOUR OWN FIREARM at the ready to blast those thugs, instead of retreating????
Are YOU the one that picks up the firearm and goes “ewee”?
Sure, you and your child have your life, but now, those thugs can communicate with other incarcerated thugs, that your neighborhood can be hit, without personal injury.
Same thing happened to my neighbor a few months ago! Same tactic,except she finally went to door to confront them after they started banging on front and back door. They came running around from back of house and jumped in car....firing off a shot at her!! Very unnerving. Police did not even include the gun incident in police report. I actually called them asking why not and what happened and they said gun fire was not reported because they never found the bullet...only the shell casings!! I was stunned.
Their advice was to always answer door...lol. Glad you are ok!!
In February of last year this happened 3 doors down from us, in broad daylight. People came home from work and their kitchen door had been kicked in. Later that night about 10:00 the burglars came back, kicked in the front door and proceeded up the stairs and tried to get in the master bedroom door while the people were in there. Scared the bejeezus out of them.
We have an alarm system but after that incident we put iron gates across our arch that leads through the front courtyard to our front door. Keep them locked at all times now. Noone gets in unless we know they are coming. We live in a nice, quiet neighborhood buyt crap is happening everywhere in our city now.
Glad you and the daughter are okay!!!
Actually it was February of this year.
I don’t normally resort to debased words, but in this case:
Hell, damn, and f***!
Further proof of what America has been “fundamentally transformed” into.
Riri, I hope you take Factor’s remarks to heart.