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Now that it is now all over with and I am beginning to settle down I am getting very tired. I think it is safe to go take a nap now before I go out to the hospital.

I hadn't thought about a barbeque maybe I should try that.

I really hope that that's the only awful thing that happens today. My father is in critical condition at the hospital and we don't expect him to live very long.

I get sick every time I think about haveein him in my sights

They recovered some shell casings but were unable to find the shooters. My neighbors father met him here and took him to his house to spend the rest of the night

He did knock loudly and saw my wife running to the bedroom. The door frame had been damaged before, he may have simply leaned on it or fell against it.
He lives in the house directly behind me and jumped an 8 foot fence, as he said, in one hop. That put him in my back yard, and since the lights were on he ran to my house for help.

Grand Prairie

not the merriest Christmas I've had

I was roused by a string of gunshots a little after midnight last night. I thought some idiot celebrating
Then Mommachatter screamed "Gunshots!" and "There's a man at the back door!".
In less than 2 seconds I was out of bed and had my .45 pointing at a young man that had kicked
in my door and was standing in the doorway. He immediately surrendered and begged for help.
He said someone was shooting at him.He had returned fire, but had dropped his gun after the
second shot. After a brief investigation, the police were confident that someone had indeed
tried to murder him, possibly because he had reported them for robbing him 3 weeks ago.


If he will bring his gun over after Christmas I will take him to the range and help him learn how
to use it. Or at least hang on to it!

Thank God I did not panic! Thank God he followed my instructions so well!

The decisions Mommachatter and I made in those first seconds were informed by discussions
we had read and talked about while lurking on this forum. Your thoughtful posts helped me
to avoid shooting and maybe killing a very frightened young man. Who knows, I might
have even saved his life by getting him out of sight be fore his attackers found him.

Thank you all for helping think about what could happen and what I might do
before I had to make that decision!