guaranteed there is more to it.
betcha the “homeowner” was a baddie as well.
you dont answer the door with a gun ready to go. do you?
you dont answer the door with a gun ready to go. do you?
when I lived in Arizona in the desert I did!
Anyone with a brain does. Those people who want to die in a home invasion don't, I always have a gun on me while in my house. BTW,the original news article, posted a day or so ago, said these two were trying to break in.
I do, sometimes. At 11:30 at night if my door’s being forced open? Definitely. “Baddies” have a right to defend themselves too, even if you are right, which you probably aren’t.
you dont answer the door with a gun ready to go. do you?
We concealed carry in Ohio. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Only six county LE officers in our 750 square mile Ohio county. We're 1/2 hour from the sheriff's office, and many residents are over an hour away. Yet our county crime rate is 17% of the national average. Funny how that works out.
Cheers,
OLA
Sorry to have to disagree with you, but, when the doorbell rings, either my wife or I will look out the small kitchen window that flanks the front door and porch. If it's someone we don't recognize, we retrieve the pistol (for me) and the shotgun (for her) and open up the window to ask them their business.
Should they try to break in the steel door, they're going to have a little problem because, whenever one of us is in the house, the two deadbolts are thrown (2.5 inches of deadbolt into the doorframe which is a treated 4x4) and the bar is across the middle of the door (a 2x4 in the manner somewhat akin to what you see across castle gates held in steel braces with 2-inch bolts securing it to the 4x4 door frame).
The windows are all covered with painted treated wooden lattice .. easy enough to kick out if you have to escape a fire, but delaying and noisy enough to discourage break-ins .. and, underneath the paneling below the kitchen window is a 4'x4' piece of 3/8-inch steel plating from a salvage yard, in case of gunfire into the kitchen when we're asking them their business.
We live well out in the sticks, away from the main road .. a lot of privacy, but we're pretty much on our own. My wife, who is from England, took to the property and the Texas way of life with guns like a duck to water.
Yes, absolutely. I am usually armed when I answer the door, and always armed when I answer the door at night.
To answer the door late at night without being armed seems rather careless.
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you dont answer the door with a gun ready to go. do you?
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I suspect that’s Standard Operating Procedure for many that live
out in the boonies in my former home state of Oklahoma.
Rural USA ain’t Mayberry USA.
Having a weapon in (or close at) hand when greeting an unknown
at your door is a lot like Ronald Reagan’s policy of
“Trust, but verify”.
With 2 16 year old girls at home and a husband that has wacko hours because of his job, yer dang tootin' I do.
A while back, an officer knocking on the door at 11 o'clock at night just glanced at the pistol I was holding and smiled.
He was looking for a stray longhorn someone had seen grazing across our yard. :-)
Yes, when not anticipating guests. Do you not?
I do.