How is my wife’s head going to get blown off in the garage, when she is upstairs in the bedroom and the door is locked?
By that logic, he should shoot anything that approaches his house at night, since they might break into a door and cause harm.
Or maybe he should just shoot people in the street, since they might be walking up to the house.
The fact is, a police officer shot an unarmed teenager in his garage, without ever identifying the target.
What if a police officer had seen the garage door opened, and decided to investigate to make sure someone wasn’t trying to steal the car? Then this guy would have shot a cop. And if he was a citizen, he would go to jail for shooting the cop.
Shooting at unidentified people in your garage is never a good idea. You shouldn’t shoot your kids if they walk through your bedroom door at 3am either. My son has done that before, when he was worried about something, or needed medication.
I don’t think people who would shoot at unidentified targets in a house with children should have a gun.
I’m pretty sure you can read what I wrote to you and understand the scenario I laid out for you. If you wish to act like you can’t, that’s your prerogative.
If you still have children in the home, then I agree it’s much more problematic when someone comes down the hallway in the dark in the middle of the night.
My comments concerning the case in this thread, is that it’s easy to fault someone when something like this takes place. When it’s your home and you don’t do what might be the best practice, you’ll realize that when it’s live, it’s not the same as when you can calmly reason what should have been done.
When someone is walking around in my home in the middle of the night, they’re fair game. Just sayin. I don’t know many people who think differently. I don’t have kids in the home. I did provide a remedy if kids are in the home. For kids in the home, ideally what you say is right. In all instances, that isn’t going to be a sure fire end all to problems.
You get woken up, you’re trying to think clearly. You’re in what you think may be a life and death situation. You make a mistake. It happens.
If we took the guns away from everyone that might accidentally use improper judgement in the middle of the night, not many of us would have guns.
I will say that a family meeting on safety could go a long way toward avoiding the dangers of kids coming back into the home in the middle of the night.