It is a good idea to know what the law says and what the reality might be depending on all kinds of things…I have a security system, I lock doors, I have dogs, and my wife is really, really mean if you interrupt her sleep. Most of my home defense plans have to do with saving the intruder’s life.
Easy enough to look up castle law or doctrine. Things are different in public.
That’s fine in Australia, we have door kicking, shotgun wielding home invaders in parts of the U.S. Slapping won’t be an option for them. It doesn’t happen as much here since weed prices are down and it’s recreationally legal. It was pretty frequent for a while 15 or 20 years ago. Sheriff response times are as long as 45 minutes in some parts of the county. One has to be aware and able. Several of these robbers got the wrong house, so just because you aren’t involved doesn’t mean you won’t be.
Maybe. It depends. Am I alone? Or would running out the back door leave the intruder in the house with some of my family? If circumstances warrant, you can be assured I will shoot them.
Dirty dog answered for me. Would you expect me to abandon my dogs and wife? I have no desire to shoot people. I have more firearms experience than my 25 years of martial arts experience. Most home invaders are not skilled at clearing rooms and using corners, I am. Most home invaders don’t have years of firearms training that includes kinetic and situational shooting, I do. Most home invaders aren’t going to be willing to die to win the gunfight. I, most certainly and sincerely am. Let me be perfectly clear, if there is an alternative to a gunfight, I am 100% going to attempt that first. These types of situations develop in the space of a breath, just like any fight. The chances of this occurring to me in my home are incredibly small, it is so unlikely that it really isn’t worth planning for or talking about at all. I shoot regularly and my skills at this point in my life are reflexive but shooting in a dynamic environment is a perishable skill that must be practiced to be maintained, it is not riding a bike. I certainly don’t practice with home invasion defense as a goal, that really only comes up when some one with very little firearms experience, or someone who is anti gun asks about it.
Please do me the courtesy of rereading my words. Certainly, you as an Australian must admit that outside of a possible military career, or a rare hunting license you have next to nothing in the way of firearms experience. Also, if you have reread my post you would see that this exceedingly rare event is not something I believe can/will happen to me. I swim in the ocean despite the existence of sharks and I go out in rainstorms despite lightning. If you read farther, you saw that I never want to be put in that situation, and would choose any other course. If you continued to read you would see that i don’t train with that in mind or as a goal. What I also said was that my commitment to protecting my wife, and secondarily my pets was paramount in any decision I might make in that regard. Please dont try to paint me as a paranoid gun nut, it isn’t true, and it isn’t fair considering what I wrote.
I never said I can kill everyone in the room. No one I know says that. Most of my friends don’t own guns or shoot at all.
None of what you say here applies to me. You seem triggered over this( see what I did there). I can tell from your posts that it would not really matter what I tell you, you don’t read my actual words anyway. Your uninformed opinions and attacks mean nothing to me. You don’t seem capable of civil discourse, or reading comprehension for that matter. I feel a little bit sorry for you, you seem so upset about these fantasies you have been creating about me. Maybe a hug? What others me most about the state of hugging today is that some people were never hugged as a child and then they go around teaching hugs to people, but they have never hugged in the street or hugged someone in a different weight class. Have you pressure tested your hugs? Do you compete in hugging? Do you have any trophies for hugging? I’m going to guess your training is not very good in this regard.
None of what you say here applies to me. You seem triggered over this( see what I did there). I can tell from your posts that it would not really matter what I tell you, you don’t read my actual words anyway. Your uninformed opinions and attacks mean nothing to me. You don’t seem capable of civil discourse, or reading comprehension for that matter. I feel a little bit sorry for you, you seem so upset about these fantasies you have been creating about me. Maybe a hug? What others me most about the state of hugging today is that some people were never hugged as a child and then they go around teaching hugs to people, but they have never hugged in the street or hugged someone in a different weight class. Have you pressure tested your hugs? Do you compete in hugging? Do you have any trophies for hugging? I’m going to guess your training is not very good in this regard.
Beautiful strawman.
