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- Jan 12, 2010
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^^^^Beat me to it. +1Nice thread!! Very, very enlightening! Thanks INGO!
glad all went well and no one was there.....call Ghost Hunters!!!.....
I have thought through that scenario many times. What do I do if I come home alone and believe there is somebody else in the house?
I would execute a tactical retreat if able to do so and call the police. They are far better trained than I to clear a house, and I'll be calling them anyways once safe to do so.
In my thinking, my reasoning is that all it takes is a bad guy with a gun to set up a defensive posture waiting for you and you're toast, just like it would for them if I were cornered upstairs.
Anyways, good on ya for coming out safe in the end. It is easy to Monday morning quarterback and far harder when you're in the situation.
....School day so I knew my wife nor the kids were home at noon.
I know I'm late to the party, but I think everyone has pointed out what you did right and what you could have done better or differently, but the mindset in the above quote will get your family killed. By you.
In the situation you described, you do not know if the person in your house is friend or foe. Cell phone batteries die, kids come home from friends' houses early, wives come home from work for lunch, and moms pick up sick kids at school.... ALL THE TIME.
Make 110% sure who/what you are about to fire on is an intruder. PERIOD, END OF STORY.
I'm lucky in that I have encountered an intruder entering my home and did not have to fire, so I do not know the emotional price of killing someone in my home. However, it's a safe bet that the emotional toll of killing your own wife or child in your home eclipses it many many hundreds of times over.
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I pulled my gun, racked it quietly, hit the safety off.
So you carry without one in the pipe and safety on?
Everyone has to start somewhere
I too, when new to carrying, first got used to a pistol with an empty chamber and safety on
Not to detract from the topic, but can somebody explain why it would even be necessary to have the safety on if there's nothing in the chamber and nothing's gonna get there until the slide gets racked?
Just curious... thx
Paranoid maybe?
I am not yet comfortable with racked and safety off.