“You cannot shoot people for standing on your lawn.
That’s what a lawn sprinkler system is for!”
A couple of decades ago, my wife and I went to our local county fair. Shortly after we pulled into our driveway, an illegal and his brother/cousin and family members pulled up in two pickups. They were obviously very drunk, and they started putting blankets lawn chairs on our front yard and announced that they were going to have a picnic.
After a couple of minutes, they got very mean and angry. I went inside and loaded up a couple of 12 gauges, a Remington pump and and over/under and went back outside and sat with the guns on our front deck.
Sure enough, they got hostile and were calling us names and threatening us. One started staggering towards me, I reached over to the sprinkler control on an outside wall on my deck and punched the on buttons. In the meantime my wife was calling the police. One truck load of the picnic wannabees left. The other clown got into his truck and glared at me.
Then cops in two cars came up. I handed my wife the 12 gauge pump,and broke the over/under 12 into the reload position, removed the shells/put them into my shirt pocket and went out to talk to the cops, with the broken open o/u
in my arms.
The cops asked me to put my gun down. I said no because the guy in the pickup had threatened my wife and me. I told them I would put my unloaded gun down when they threw his drunk ass into the back of the cop car. We discussed this and another cop car came up. The loud treaspassing guy was arrested and his riders were told to walk home. When the illegal was put into the cop car, I turned off the sprinklers. I sat back down on the steps to the deck with the guns unloaded but nearby.
I can't believe two truckloads of people (illegal or otherwise) just drove up and trespassed on your property like that. What state is this? Are you in a rural area?
Scary...
You have lousy cops, or lousy laws. If this had happened where I live, the cops would have arrested them all without delay, and confiscated their truck.