Stupid wrote:You always wait in darkness till bad guys come to you, my friend. I am not stupid enough to search for unknown enemies in hiding. No sane military commander or police officer would do this.
So how did they find Saddam? Let's see, could it be military commanders sending their troops into unknown areas in search of unknown enemies? What about that guy down in Florida they wasted 100+ rounds on? I don't recall them waiting in ambush for him.
On the other hand, if you forsee that much trouble (guns involved, 911 called), why do you go there alone with no backup???
I don't carry a gun, either my CHL carry weapon or the 12ga I use when checking out problems in the yard, because I expect to need to shoot somebody any more than I wear a seatbelt because I expect to wreck the car. Both are there for the unexpected.
My backup is in the dark bedroom with a .243, a couple of 10rd mags, cell phone, and a spotlight waiting for any indication that things aren't going right. Depending on the indicator, she will make her own decisions as to whether to come help, hunker down and shoot anything that enters, or clear the chamber, roll over and go back to sleep.
In the past six months or so, I've cleared the yard a couple of dozen times with a grand total of two shots fired, and both of those in one incident. (no clean shot available in the others that would have justified a shot) Three times were skunks, which just love chicken eggs, two were stray dogs after either the chickens or the trash cans, and the rest were either our cats getting into trouble or the landlord getting something from his barn just behind our house. How much credibility do you think you'd have with the local law enforcement if you called them at least once a week to come out and check on a noise, even if roughly a fifth of the time it was a legitimate, damaging, incident? (hint; the sheriff here expects us to shoot marauding animals for ourselves)
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