CalifBill wrote:
"Eisboch" wrote in message
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Anyway, some of you have firearms for protection.. What do you think
is safer:
Retreat, call 911 and warn the perp that he could get shot?
or
Run downstaris totally out of cover and hope to reach the first floor
before some asshole blows your balls off or you end up in a gunfight
with some little kid...??

I would love for someone who has had training to make the call
here...

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I knew a guy who was an advanced level martial arts blackbelt. He taught
several of the popular self defense techniques or styles.

His first line of defense and advice to be used against any aggressive
intruder with a gun was, "Run like hell".

Personally, I don't like guns, even though I own a shotgun. If I were
forced to use it, I would, but not before several warnings to an intruder
to get the hell out and only if I felt that my wife or I were in immediate
physical danger.

If the intruder is unarmed, I'd use a bit of old Navy training learned
while standing Shore Patrol duty. (sorry Harry). I keep one of those
short aluminum bats (used by fishermen to knock a big fish senseless)
handy in the house. A solid whack with it applied to the shins of just
about anybody will usually cause them to crumple to the floor in pain.
Unless they are drunk. Causes no permanent damage, but grown men have
been known to sit on the ground, bawling their eyes out after a good
thunk!


Eisboch


Best advice ever was from a sheriff in KY. He taught a home defense course
for women. If there was a intruder in the house call 911. Then turn on
your bedroom light and get behind the bed and bench rest your firearm
pointed at the door. Do not say a word! 99.99% of the time the perp will
turn and run. If they advance into the room, shoot them twice. Do not get
up and see if the guy is dead, or seriously wounded. Or even a flesh wound.
The cops will be there very shortly and if needed will break down the front
door. They will put the diagnosis on the bad guy. And do not feel bad about
shooting him. He deserved it, and had a chance to run.




The response oft is determined by where you are when the break-in
occurs. and what is handy for defense. Anyone breaking into my house is
going to make a considerable amount of noise, and it is a different sort
of noise than the cats make in their nocturnal prowling.

Further, even coming onto the property near the house is going to turn
on a number of floodlights controlled by motion detectors, and the light
from those floods is visible inside the house.

What I am not going to do is get close enough to a perp to swing an
aluminum baseball bat at him. He's either going to meet Mr. 12 gauge or
a magazine loaded with 19 SPEER GoldDots.