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seamusTX wrote:

JustMe wrote:... I still don't think it is appropriate for a 15 year old to go LOOKING.

I don't, either.

However, probably no one told her not to. On TV, the criminals always give up when confronted, and the good guys get a "flesh wound" at worst.

We've seen many stories in this forum for adult men and even cops who went looking for criminals and were injured or killed.



- Jim

...don't have statistical proof, but I'd bet more who huddle and hope have been assaulted, wounded, or killed than have those who actively, violently resisted...fear works better against evil people than begging for mercy...I'm adamant(HARDHEADED) about that...and raised my boys to be fighters in such a situation...

...we've also seen where kids, male and female, 8-16, have saved a parent's life by taking action rather than hiding under the bed, hoping the police would show...and in a lot of these cases, the police would have been too late to save the parent...
...I don't applaud her going out of the house to confront them in the garage or yard, but they had already been in the house and she was NOT safe until the house was cleared and locked...which, after being burglarized, probably wasn't going to happen...
...tactically, she's still better off aggressively and carefully making sure that they're not in the house with her than huddling in a bedroom waiting for them to come to her...anger's better than terror any day...there is right and wrong...and different...our opinions are different...

...one might also argue, though this has nothing to do with my stated opinion, that to clear her way to the door, and get outside the house, would be better than to be cornered inside...there are several ways to look at the situation...

...once you make up your mind that you will use deadly force to stop evil, it takes a lot of the fear out of the situation, and sometimes a resolve to take back what's yours causes you to do more than huddle in the bedroom, waiting...when I trained my sons at 8 on up how to handle my guns and shoot well, I taught them all I knew about tactics, positioning in the house, clearing a room, they would not just hide and wait for the police...for some, that no doubt is better...but not for all...each must make their own choice...

..."but surely nothing will happen while I'm in the bathroom for a few minutes"...just went out the window, didn't it, folks....
ANYTIME, ANYWHERE...