I think she should have a closet door shot full of holes rather than surrender her weapon.
The one who ran into the closet should have been shot multiple times IMMEDIATELY ... he was sitting on a loaded shotgun her husband keeps in the closet!
That’s where training and a litle practice comes into play. Bless the gal for defending herself and her kids but it sounds like she was taking time to think——it has to be instinctive and automatic when the stuff hits the fan——you can do the paperwork later.
Houston - Cayden, a six-year-old Houston boy with Down syndrome, was falling asleep next to his mother at 8:15 pm on the night of Friday, January 25. It is their nightly ritual to lay in his bed until Cayden falls asleep before his mother finishes her housework, while her husband works the nightshift at a veterinary clinic. But this night turned out to be anything but typical.
A loud crash came through the living room window, followed by three Hispanic men rushing into the house. Erin (her real first name but she asked that her last name not be used) covered her son's face so he wouldn't watch, and ran to release her caged dogs and grab her weapon. She reached the dogs, but not the gun, before the armed men stopped her...... snip
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Good Hunting... from Varmint Al