We've been married 13 years and my wife has never liked the fact that we have guns in the house. Her family doesn't have them and don't believe in them. They believe in calling the police.
Well, at 4:00 am this morning my dog starts pacing back and forth and begins whimpering over and over and over. She's a greyhound so they're not great guard dogs, meaning they rarely bark. I just thought she wanted to be fed early (that happens from time to time) so I told her to hush and dozed back off. For the next ten minutes she continues to do it. As I'm about to tell her to hush once again I hear a five/six consecutive extremely loud and hard bangs on my front door. My wife and I immediately jump up. She begins freakin' out and I'm pulling out my .45 Springfield Armory 1911 and easing up the hallway. The guy bangs on the door a few more times and then I hear the door knob start turning. I cocked my pistol because I'm figuring his next move (once he figures out it's locked) is to start trying to knock in the door. So with my pistol loaded, cocked and aimed at the front door he tries a few more times to turn the door knob and then it goes silent. I see a shadow take off past our front window and off the porch into the night.
My wife was petrified and said "If he would have busted in calling the cops would have done no good would it?" I told her "No baby, it wouldn't. That's why we own guns and keep them loaded." She sat there about as terrified as I seen her in a LOOONG time and she started talking about her being at home in the summer with the kids while I'm at work. She now wants me to buy her a .38 and teach her to shoot it. I'm glad I didn't have to use my pistol and possibly kill somebody. But if the situation had gone further calling the cops would have been meaningless.
Well, at 4:00 am this morning my dog starts pacing back and forth and begins whimpering over and over and over. She's a greyhound so they're not great guard dogs, meaning they rarely bark. I just thought she wanted to be fed early (that happens from time to time) so I told her to hush and dozed back off. For the next ten minutes she continues to do it. As I'm about to tell her to hush once again I hear a five/six consecutive extremely loud and hard bangs on my front door. My wife and I immediately jump up. She begins freakin' out and I'm pulling out my .45 Springfield Armory 1911 and easing up the hallway. The guy bangs on the door a few more times and then I hear the door knob start turning. I cocked my pistol because I'm figuring his next move (once he figures out it's locked) is to start trying to knock in the door. So with my pistol loaded, cocked and aimed at the front door he tries a few more times to turn the door knob and then it goes silent. I see a shadow take off past our front window and off the porch into the night.
My wife was petrified and said "If he would have busted in calling the cops would have done no good would it?" I told her "No baby, it wouldn't. That's why we own guns and keep them loaded." She sat there about as terrified as I seen her in a LOOONG time and she started talking about her being at home in the summer with the kids while I'm at work. She now wants me to buy her a .38 and teach her to shoot it. I'm glad I didn't have to use my pistol and possibly kill somebody. But if the situation had gone further calling the cops would have been meaningless.
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