You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
-- Colonel Jeff Cooper
Wouldn’t want to. Would.
There is a loaded shotgun under the bed. Damn right!
I’m a mama bear. I’ll protect my cubs. Might be clumsy and scared, but I’ll do it.
I have a steak knife and I know how to use it.
Bear or crook my life comes first.
Yep. The only question is would you bury them, hang them on the fence as a warning to the next looter, or feed them to the pigs.
As a woman living out in the middle of nowhere, widowed with kids at home and running a small country store in the middle of nowhere I have seriously thought about the scenarios that could occur and have concluded that I sure would hate to, but would if I had to. (but I know I’d be seriously freaked out for days afterwards..especially if it was a local.) And yes, I do have firearms in the home and behind the register.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
I wouldn’t want to, and would likely feel guilty for the rest of my life, but I sincerely hope that I have the presence of mind to shoot any SOB who intends harm to me or mine...and I presume that anyone who enters my home at 0’Dark:30 without my permission has exactly that mission on his mind.
The good thing is that I live in Texas. After dark, shooting people on your property is highly protected, to say nothing of inside your home. Here I think that the police would actually be disappointed if the perp was still kicking when they arrived.
The answer for me is YES.
And I do not have to worry about prosecution because I live in Texas and have the state right to defend myself, my family and my property.
I would shoot someone if the situation arose, because I would want my family protected. I wouldn’t use a knife; the perp might take it from me and use it on ME, leaving my family worse off than before. Whatever action I took, it would need to be absolute.
In that context, I decided that there are people in this world who need killing.
Yes.
Remember “It’s better to be tried by 12 than carried by 6.
Let’s see, a 110 lb. woman with a knife vs. a grizzled 250 lb. thug.
This has a lot of potential to turn out poorly for the woman.
When people ask this question I am reminded of the OC activist guy who was confronted by two perps earlier this year. He could not shoot. Does not carry anymore.
Until you have to, you do not know. Training helps, because you react with muscle memory. But if you are not prepared, the after effects can be devastating.
You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
-- Colonel Jeff Cooper
I'm shooting people NOW, and the S *hasn't* HTF.
