mysterygirl
A Nancy Drew Wannabe
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She did everything right. Bless that woman't heart.
I think that's easy to say NOW, but I would have been terrified to go out the door. What if there were more than one of them? This woman is 57. What if the intruder were a lot younger or in better shape and could outrun her and catch her outside? What if he had a gun too?
Maybe she was on the home phone and not a cell so couldn't leave without losing contact with LE. I would rather be facing the door with a gun than running and looking over my shoulder.
I'm sorry for the trauma she has experienced but I don't feel sorry for this man one bit. He was warned she had a gun and kept coming! She has saved the taxpayers a bunch of money and the fear that, even if convicted, he might get out and hurt someone else.
Attitudes like these only add to the rights of property owners being taken and the rights of criminals being enhanced.
Why should she have to? It's her house. The criminal was outside - are you suggesting she should have left the house to be outside, unarmed, with the criminal?
I also wonder how he got to the home if it took LE so much time to deal with the fence. Did he pass up neighbors' houses? Maybe because she had lights on at that hour?
I wasn't clear on what was happening with the dog Cody. It sounds like she is scared that she needs to get to her potentially injured dog at the beginning. Then she's concerned about him attacking LE, but he hasn't attacked the perp, who was at the front door at the beginning of the call. Then she tells her son that the dog did what he could, but he couldn't get to the perp. I can't make sense of it.
I do totally support her. and I don't fault her at all.
That said...If it were me, and I was alone.......and I had the oppurtunity to leave the house via the front door, I would have. IMO She had ample oppurtunity to leave.
That said, if I were alone & were to wake up with an intruder in my home....I would lock myself in a room and warn him.......if he didn't heed my warning, I'd shoot him dead and it wouldn't bother me.
She has quite a few dogs. Dogs locked behind a fence with livestock that were unable to get out, Cody the lab as well as little ones. I think that's where the confusion comes in.
I never said SHE had to. What I said ............*I* would have............HUGE DIFFERENCE.
Believe me, I have ZERO problem with the idea of my killing an intruder IF I feel my life is endangered. If my child were home, I wouldn't hesitate for a second, I would shoot to kill if someone were breaking in our home.
If my child wasn't at home.......I personally would have a problem with killing someone to protect "stuff"....especially, if I had an opportunity to leave through another exit. I would still be taking the gun with me.
How do you know the intruder is trying to just get "stuff" when they are breaking in? Are you willing to bet your life that that's all they want?
I have to, respectfully, totally disagree with you about going outside.
He started out at the front door. She had yelled to the guy that she was armed and was calling the police. He kept on coming. When she called 911 he was at the front and then proceeded around the house. She had no cell phone, only her house phone.
If she had gone outside she would have been at his mercy in the pitch dark with no way to contact law enforcement. She didn't know how he got to the house. She could have been forced into a car and taken away. She didn't know that he didn't have an accomplice waiting outside. Absolutely better to stay in the house where she has potential hiding places, a phone, and weapons. Even with a gun, she can't see to shoot once she's in the dark.
Rural areas are not like the city where you have street lights along the road to guide you. If you have always been in the city or suburbs, you have no idea what it's like to be in the pitch dark. It's one of those things you never notice until you experience it. Even in a car with headlights, it's very hard to tell where you are or to see very far in front of you.
Her assessment of the situation was right-on if you ask me. It's unfortunate, but she did the right thing.
I've lived rural, ...neighbors few and far between on a number of acres with no street lights. I know what "dark" is. I would also be confident that I know my property better than any intruder in the dark and where I could hide....besides...I would STILL be armed.
I never said her assessment wasn't "right on" for her. I am younger than her, faster than her and not willing to kill someone when I know I could get away.
I've lived rural, ...neighbors few and far between on a number of acres with no street lights. I know what "dark" is. I would also be confident that I know my property better than any intruder in the dark and where I could hide....besides...I would STILL be armed.
I never said her assessment wasn't "right on" for her. I am younger than her, faster than her and not willing to kill someone when I know I could get away.