Posted on 01/15/2013 8:52:32 AM PST by Kaslin
I’ll take the lesson that a shotgun is not the right choice when there is a possible hostage situation in the mix.
Absolutely agreed.
The guy wasn’t ready to take a bullet in defense of family mambers, clearly. The choice is shoot the sonofabitch holding a gun on the loved one and take the bullet of the other perp and try to kill that one, too.
I’m asking myself how this faux writer knew the perp was pointing a 44 magnum. I will ditto the BS call.
Well, call it ego, macho or whatever you may, BUT I would sure change my mind over ‘protecting’ my wife and SIL if the best they can do is sit there and laugh at me, when the only reason she was able to do so (SIL) was because I didn’t ‘take the guy out’.
I at least expected to see that possibly it was a ‘set up’ by your wife and SIL to show you weren’t as brave as you thought or ALL those guns in the house did you no good.
BTW, I think that is the ‘hidden message’ here, you had all that weaponry and now you have none and the bad guys got it all.
Definitely rethink the ‘worth of your SIL’ should you be in the same situation again.
Saturday, January 19th at noon at your state capitol.
Be heard.
Show up en masse.
No excuses. No hoping that others will attend so that you don't have to.
Does anybody out ther BUY this story??
Didn’t think so. Me neither.
Humberto was living in Cuba and his house was stormed by jackboot thugs who took his weapons. The weapon seizure was ordered in Cuba by the communist in control from Russia. That was 1959. He ended with something constructive: don’t surrender guns in America. This was a clear lesson. Those who do not learn from history are sure to repeat it. Be prepared to defend yourself.
My thanks to Humberto for the lesson.
It’s easy. You shoot the guy with the gun on ya, first. The perp with the hostage will not shoot SIL because she is his shield. Then work on getting him, even if taking the legs of everyone next.
Yup, see post #11.
Movie on TV last night....SyFy....Rona Mitra?.....hostage situation...she had a bead on the perp who held another cop hostage.....he effed up and tripped and accidentally blew his hostage’s jaw off..... His words “Oh Sh!t” realizing his protection was gone....having never dropped her aim, she emptied the mag on him....
When you are being utterly humiliated, at least make sure you have a cute hiney.
“Whooo-hooo!” cackled Elaine. ‘You sure gotta cute heiny, brud-n-law!”
(Either that or I also missed the point completely.)
I just lost a lot of the respect I had for Humberto.
hiney, heiny,...whatever (duh)
Yep - at 25', even my pocket guns can be made to empty a magazine into a grapefruit. My other weapons are capable of contacting a dime at that distance and I, as I age, am capable of making them contact a quarter at that range. My wife would forgive me for scaring the bejesus out of her if it left her alive and the perp with more room for brains in his shattered skull.
My daughter saw one of them looking in through an open spot in her bedroom drapes and calmly walked to my room and told me...At that point one of them forced my bathroom window open and landed on the floor. The door was closed between my bedroom and the bathroom.
I forcefully told whoever was there that if they opened that door, they were facing a pistol with hollow points and that it would give me great pleasure to blow them into Hell. They slithered right back up the wall and out.
You can put your preaching where the sun won't shine, but I do not respect a man who is not willing to fight for his family. This man surrendered. He was fortunate. If I were this man I would be glad to have survived, but I wouldn't recommend his course of action ever, let alone boast about it.
I think you may have misunderstood me. I was agreeing with you that the author was unwise to surrender his weapon, and thought it lucky his wife and sister were not violated and killed. I simply did not want to judge the guy too harshly as I have never been put in such a situation.
“I was lucky in the order.” - William Muny out of Missouri, killer of women and children (As “Little Bill” described him.)
If this guy had small caliber rifle and practiced he could have shot both of the thugs in the eye.
Humberto wrote .44, not .44 magnum.
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