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I know my house. I know where every stick of furniture is, I know where every door knob is, I know where every light switch is.

This is the only case that I can think of where darkness is my friend. (Right LT?)

I can operate in complete security at night in my house because there is enough ambient light from external sources: i.e.: streetlights, moon, &c. The only time I have any sort of night light going is when we have company and they might need to make it to the restroom or the kitchen in the middle of the night without tripping over something and waking me up putting me therefore in this mode.

The flashlight in my hand is to blind the assaliant upon inital contact, not to light the house while I'm searching. In a dark house a xxxx-power flashlight can be and is quite blinding, at least for enough time to see his condition, because 1) I'm expecting the light and 2) the intruder is not----Plus the light is not focused in my face, i.e.: eyes., blinding me but the light is focused away towards the intruder.

In that short amount of time, I can see if the intruder has a weapon, and if he does I can demand that the intruder drop said weapon.

Upon compliance, or non-compliance, begins the next step. That next step will entail one of two things... 1) a command to a) drop the weapon AND b)retreat, or c) get on the floor; or with non-compliance of option 1 then option two become necessary: 2) there will most likely be a loud report with a bunch of clean up later.

If the intruder showed no weapon, then I can still ask for compliance in either 1) b)retreat, or 1) c) get on the ground. This senario does not necessarily entail a loud report, unless the intruder does not retreat or drop to the ground but instead he keeps comming at me or the wife, then it will most likely require option 2) and the said report mentioned earlier with clean up afterwards.

Still it took much more time to read this than the amount of time that will elapse during actual decision making process.

Russ

texas297 wrote:I know that I'm not in the minority here but isn't in sad that in this day and age that we've coming to answering an unexpected knock on the front door (especially after dark) with our sidearm readily available.

Oh no,
That has been going on for a long while.

Think of the pioneer woman, alone while husband is in mountains hunting, or just in the field plowing and she got a very unexpected man on a horse. You think she didn't have a weapon handy... or worse yet an unexpected man walking and I'm saying nothing about ethnicity here because in those days one could have been as bad as any other.

Riding on a steamboat on the Ole' Miss. and your boat gets stopped in mid stream by a log. A log that had been placed there by river pirates. Hope you had your flintlock handy!

Nothing has really changed, just that the reporting of it is so much more real-time than it ever was in the past.

Just like tornado's, there aren't really more tornado's today than there were 50, 75, 150 years ago, just more of them are seen today (more general population plus more storm chasers) and because of modern technology everyone knows about them.

Russ

kauboy wrote:

Paladin wrote:I've been through numerous dog attacks. Once I drew my gun, but didn't have a clear shot, and the owner came out and got his dog.

Is it legal to use a gun against a dog? I know OC is fine, but are we allowed to use a gun in public to kill an attacking dog? I know I'd rather live and have a dead dog in front of me than to suffer whatever he had in mind, but is it legal?

Yeah, check this thread: http://www.texasshooting.com/TexasCHL_F ... dog+attack

Never have I had to present my weapon in public, I hope and pray that I never have to.



As the story in another thread talked about a disgruntled lover making threats to his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend, and he wound up breaking in and being shot after making good on his threats; my wife and I, likewise, have had such threats made against us by our ex-son-in-law. He's the reason for the CHL in the first place.

This was several years ago and I have to assume that the threats are now either nominal or non-existent and made by a now nonentity in our lives.
I have heard noises about the house and had my .45 in my hand as I checked out the totally dark interior. That's to my advantage as I know the terrority, someone else does not, a light would only help them.

And my new son-in-law is a fantastic guy and a CHL'er himself, with my daughter in the waiting room for her's to come in.

Russ