Posted on 04/06/2021 11:23:59 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
From the personal defense files comes the latest broad daylight lesson from the great northwest about armed self defense and the effectiveness of orders of protection in deterring
From KOMO News . . .
Kennewick (Washington) Police say they were called out at about 1:20 p.m., to the 2700 block of south Sherman Street on Thursday.The 65-year-old creeper who tried to force his way into the home — Monty Bockman — was arrested by police when they eventually arrived. It seems someone who lives in the home had an order of protection against Bockman, but for some reason, that piece of paper wasn’t much of a deterrent.KPD says a woman called about an armed man with a two-by-two steel pipe, who was trying to break down her door.
Police say the woman had a gun and barricaded the back door while waiting for officers.
Police noted how impressed they were that the woman didn’t open fire on Bockman.
Kennewick police say they were, “impressed with her great restraint and example of being an armed citizen in our city during a very traumatic event.”Too many people put their faith in a judge’s restraining order or order of protection to ensure their safety. But a piece of paper has no effect on someone who’s bent on doing another person harm (for examples, see here, here, and here). Try waiving a judge’s order in the face of your attacker if you want to test that theory.
Fortunately, in this case, the woman was armed in the event that her door barricade didn’t hold. Even more fortunately, she was never faced with the choice of whether or not to pull the trigger. No matter how justified, that’s a decision the defender will have to live with for the rest of their life.
The lesson here is and aways should be, you are responsible for your own safety. You are your own first responder. A judge’s order means less than nothing to many violent, abusive individuals. For their part, the police simply can’t respond quickly enough and don’t have a duty to protect you anyway.
More Americans are coming to that realization every day and are buying firearms at a never-seen-before pace.
Should’ah eliminated a threat that will return as soon as the judge releases him.
2 by 2 pipe? Journalism much?
Oh, now, you know how it goes,
Those who can, do
Those who can't, teach
Those who can't teach, become journalists
Steel beam. That’s hilarious. Or that old creeper is super strong. Either way the gun did it’s job. Not just a paper weight, not just pretty to look at. A great deterrent and if she had to then...
Isn’t that order of protection bullet proof? The way the lefties talk one would think it had all the powers of Superman.
Since he was armed with a pipe, the journos should call him a pipeman. If he had a gun they would call him a gunman.
KHS Class of 71
So what happened then? If she didn’t ever fire the gun, did he just back off? That part (the climax) is missing in the article. Will this 65 y/o Kook be locked up, and for how long, an hour till he bails?
There is a serious lack of editing going on a today’s newspapers yet on every political piece there seem to be 3 or 4 kiddies under 28 years of age sharing the byline. They must be paying them peanuts because their writing reads like a cut ‘n paste job.
Well, it was 2 inches in diameter and 2 feet long. That's 2 by 2, isn't it? /sarc
I have an alibi. All my pipes have a round cross section rather than being square.
That’s what we “in the business” call rectangular (square) tube.
Not being in the business and not really caring, I would have called it a square pipe too..........
The police call it "paper Kevlar". The only thing it is useful for is to create a paper trail that you can show the judge as the reason your ex or whatever, is assuming room temperature.
Well I would point out that the careless re-defining of words by journalists is largely the reason the 2nd Amendment is under threat.
Also, pipes carry fluids. Tubes are structural components like angle iron, I-beams and C-channels.
You left out cooties.......
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