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Paladin wrote:

G.C.Montgomery wrote:I've seen video of MS13 raiding a house...it's messy, bound to be bloody, and involves boxes and boxes of bullets. You will be at a serious disadvantage when ten or twelve guys all suddenly stick semi-auto weapons into every window of your home and randomly start blasting in sweeping arcs through the house.

Now that's something I'd like to see (video only). A bunch of MS13 gangbangers in a circle, doing mag dumps with semi-auto rifles at eachother (thru the house).

Just duck and shoot the ones left standing as they reload.

Actually, that was the shocking part...something like 300+ rounds expended and not ONE fatality or injury. The MS13 crew was attempting to jump some narcs who'd setup a buy/bust against the gang. The narcs were on the outside looking in with the video cameras and swooped in to make the arrests while the knuckleheads were reloading. Fortunately, a few resisted and were DRT.

Some how, the situations depicted in the original post seem highly unlikely. But the law is pretty clear on what you can and can't do to defend yourself.

I don't expect to see the Mexican Army on US59 anytime soon. But lets just say for the sake of argument that Rita had hit Houston square on the jaw as a CAT 5 hurricane. Not likely, but lets say it had and some of the local gangbangers had decided to block my exit. My truck weighs 6300lbs with me and a full tank of gas. It will hit 60mph in about eight seconds. Doing the math, my truck at 30mph will do far more damage in five seconds than I can do with my FAL, chambered 7.62NATO in two minutes. I'm thinking I'll chance running the roadblock, making hood ornaments out of the idiots and dragging survivors for as far as the truck will roll.
In the second scenario; Again, I doubt the Mexican Army will raid my home in my life time. And again, Texas law pretty clearly defines what I can and can't do. Assuming everyone was dumb enough to come after me through the same bullet funnel, I'd run out of 7.62mm ammunition about the same time the average army regiment would run out of bodies. Some how I don't think an armed force would be that inept at attacking my little old house. I've seen video of MS13 raiding a house...it's messy, bound to be bloody, and involves boxes and boxes of bullets. You will be at a serious disadvantage when ten or twelve guys all suddenly stick semi-auto weapons into every window of your home and randomly start blasting in sweeping arcs through the house.

Edited to add: Again, I don't walk around planning for these sorts of scenarios. I think the chances of running into either situation is a billion to one and really not practical or reasonable for most armed citizens to train or plan against