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This is an old story, but it is pretty good.

 

Long story short...

Man followed home

Gun shoved face

Robbed

Appeasement of the criminals didn't work

Home invaded

Wife sexually assaulted

Husband grabbed gun & fought back while wife grabs phone & calls 911

Husband very badly beaten

 

http://abcnews.go.com/US/brutal-home-invasion-scars-heal/story?id=24588314

 

Excerpt from page 2 of the article,

Dr. Hugo Razo, the emergency room physician who treated Dittrich, told him that night, “You’re a hero. You’re an American hero.”

 

The couple are convinced that fighting back saved Duffy from being raped, and saved both of their lives that night. It’s been more than a year since the incident and Duffy and Dittrich moved back to their hometown, Youngstown, Ohio. They had to push off their wedding because of the attack, but Dittrich was back working again as a computer programmer and Duffy got a job managing a retail store.

“We definitely needed time for James to heal,” Duffy said. “We specifically did not want to go back to that apartment.”

 

They feel safer in Ohio, they said, adding that their experience drastically changed them and their views on a number of issues, including gun control.

Before, both didn’t feel the need to own a gun. Now, they are proud gun owners and keep a handgun in the bedroom.

“I didn’t want a gun. I specifically didn’t want one,” Dittrich said. “I was very much opposed to hav[ing] one, and I guess I got the realization that the police really can’t protect you. They can respond, and they can protect you once they get there. But, you’re on your own.”

 

 

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True story...

 

Monday we were going to my mother's for dinner, 3 1/2 miles away. On the way there, my wife puts her hand on my leg, gives a little rub-around, and asks "Why do you have your gun just to go to your mother's place?"

 

So I tell her. "On the way there, we are going by the houses of two known heroin dealers and another house where the occupant was just arrested for aggravated assault. After dinner I will walk the dog in the park, where a friend of mine witnessed a drug deal the day before. Who knows what will happen to our place when we're gone? When we return, and IF, there were an odd car in our driveway what would you like me to do, just drive past our own house like we didn't live there?"

 

I then told her "If I needed a gun to protect myself or someone else and it was home locked in my safe, with strangers in my house when we got there, I would feel pretty damned bad about that. Especially with the police only 40 minutes away. It's not like we haven't been robbed before and it's not like other homes in the area haven't been broken into for medications and stuff that's easy to sell, and it's not like there wasn't a home invasion one town over a couple weeks ago"

 

She then leaned over and put her head on my shoulder. 

 

I think I need to carry a bigger gun. 

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True story...

 

Monday we were going to my mother's for dinner, 3 1/2 miles away. On the way there, my wife puts her hand on my leg, gives a little rub-around, and asks "Why do you have your gun just to go to your mother's place?"

 

So I tell her. "On the way there, we are going by the houses of two known heroin dealers and another house where the occupant was just arrested for aggravated assault. After dinner I will walk the dog in the park, where a friend of mine witnessed a drug deal the day before. Who knows what will happen to our place when we're gone? When we return, and IF, there were an odd car in our driveway what would you like me to do, just drive past our own house like we didn't live there?"

 

I then told her "If I needed a gun to protect myself or someone else and it was home locked in my safe, with strangers in my house when we got there, I would feel pretty damned bad about that. Especially with the police only 40 minutes away. It's not like we haven't been robbed before and it's not like other homes in the area haven't been broken into for medications and stuff that's easy to sell, and it's not like there wasn't a home invasion one town over a couple weeks ago"

 

She then leaned over and put her head on my shoulder. 

 

I think I need to carry a bigger gun.

 

Funny, I've had a similar conversation with my wife. Now she asks if I've "remembered " to grab my gun when we go out.

 

Short answer: Same reason we have a fire extinguisher in the car. Just in case.

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I've always been pro gun and self defense.  I've always carried, especially when I've got my kids with me...even to the store (P220 in the truck, and a P238 in my pocket).  You never know what could happen.  My wife now carries the Sig P238 in her purse.  She sees how f'd this society is getting.  She used to ask me why I carried even going to a 'safe' neighborhood.  I don't want the one time that I don't carry to be the one time that I wish I had.

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