Originally Posted by Slims

I don't know the answer either, but I am less concerned about the burglar who flees than I am about the one who breaks in knowing there are people home. The intruder who does not leave when you yell that you are armed isn't there for your TV. Also, I am away from home a lot and my wife stays in the house alone. I don't want her to be at the mercy of the first person who has the audacity to force his way into our home and realizes there is a young woman there alone.

I am not going to shoot an unarmed burglar, and I am not going to kill in order to protect property. However, I will confront an intruder and tell them to get out of my house, and I am not about to allow them to arm themselves by stealing one of my firearms. Lethal force is a last resort against an attack, but there is no reason I can't expel an intruder from my home by other means.

You can go be a sheep if you want to...I would rather die than subjugate myself to the whims of some piece of trash who is trying to live as a parasite off of the efforts of others.


On a side note, if I had children then protecting them would be my number one priority and I would do as you describe. If I had a second story I would likely clear to the stairwell and lock it down while waiting for police.

Oh, and as what I have worth getting in a gunfight over: I won't shoot an unarmed intruder because the law does not allow it. However, I believe that people only deserve what they are willing to defend. I would fight for my possessions in a heartbeat. If the intruder makes it a gun fight then so be it...I haven't lost one yet and I'm willing to bet I've been in more than he has.