JTyson
Well-known member
I have a neighbor up the road from me that had 4 mexicans storm the front door and beat the shit out of him in front of his wife and 2 kids before taking whatever they could find while they were held at gunpoint. He had a loaded 870 pump shotgun in his closet, but could not get to it in time.
The same 4 broke into a former Special Forces guys house 3 miles away a week later and he killed 3 of them and badly wounded the 4th, so karma ultimately caught up to them, but honestly, unless you have kids in the house, that weapon should be sitting on GO at all times. The difference in those 2 scenario's was the Special Forces guy had weapons locked and loaded in multiple places in the house, so no matter where he was in the house when the shit hit the fan, he had something close by to deal with it. I spoke with him after it happened and he said he had to get 2 of them shooting through walls with his AR, and he thinks he got lucky on those hits. One he got square up in a doorway, and the wounded one he hit in the knee, the thigh and the shoulder but the guy survived. 3 of them were armed, the other had a big bag to stuff things into. We didn't have any more problems with that, its been 4-5 years ago. But you never know. He kinda laughed it off and said how rusty he had gotten since coming back from his last deployment...
It sux that things are the way they are, but this is what we have at the moment. When shit goes sideways it happens in a split second and you don't ever want to be found with a less than effective strategy. Plan on there being 5 of them, not one. There are probably more occurrences with multiple shitheads involved than there are with one, although each time its happened to me there was only one guy.
This is one reason you want high capacity mags and not those dam 10 round jokes they have made law in certain states. Lasers are great, but red dots are faster, especially with multiple targets that are moving. Red dots with shake-awake can be sitting on GO until the second you grab it so you save time not having to turn it on. But whatever you have, train with it. Do it often.. Do it like your life or your families lives depend on it.
It sounds like its stupid paranoid overkill if nothing has ever happened, but you don't want to wish you were better prepared when you hear the door get kicked it or a window smashed while you are asleep. If you have to go hot with those fuckers, you want to be the baddest son of a bitch they have ever seen and know exactly what your gonna do while they are trying to figure out where to go once inside..
Hopefully it never happens. Normal sane people don't want to shoot anyone and lots of them don't waste time thinking about stuff that probably won't happen, it only happens to other people on the news.
But its on the news every day..
