about 1:30 AM This morning, the dogs needed to be let out. at 3 AM the doorbell rang

[demtenjeep]

it was my turn, so I throw on a robe and let the puppies out. It was nice and cool-not too windy so I grabbed the e-cig and puffed on it a few minutes, then the dogs got done and we came back inside and I shut and locked the back door and shut off the lights and we all went back to bed. Around 3 AM the doorbell rings and my two boxers start getting excited. Hubby gets up, throws some pants on, grabs his pistol and he and the 90 pound female boxer and the 98 lb Male boxer patrol the levels of our home and he lets the dogs run the back fence.

Never did find anything out of place - nothing disturbed . Looking out the front yard and across the neighborhood, we did notice a lot of security lights on that normally wouldn't be on. We decided that it was probably kids starting their summer fun. We debated about calling the police but decided there really wasn't anything to report.

Guess we will be more vigilant but not worry

really don't think anyone would break in-the dogs sound ferocious on the wrong side of the door.

[Gravitycollapse]

1. Why did you assume it was someone who needed to be shot before suspecting it was kids?

[demtenjeep]

2. I didn't assume anything

hubby just grabbed it. Wasn't even a shell in chamber.


We are not shoot first ask questions later...but neither are we stupid. Have been 8 drive by shootings in the last month near our neighborhood.

[Gravitycollapse]

4. This story makes no logical sense. You assume the person ringing your doorbell...

Is a drive-by shooter? Under what context would that make sense? The point of a drive-by is the short window to which the shooter is exposed or seen. And then you answer the door with the suspicion that it was somehow related to the previous shootings?

And you own a home defense weapon but don't chamber a round? I by no means advocate the use of weapons in the home (or anywhere else for that matter). But if you're going to have one, you should really have one chambered.

I'm not following any of this. But what I'm really not following is why you chose to post this in the first place.

[Logical]

8. You sound gullible to me. nt

[Gravitycollapse]

9. How so?

[smackd]

6. i think it makes perfect sense

at 3am in the morning, especially in your neighborhood it sounds like.

of course you don't shoot first, but at that time of night, no matter who it is, it cant be good. would have done the same.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. My two litle Shi-Tzus are my doorbell

In Tucson, I spend most of my time on the back patio where I can't hear the doorbell but if anyone walks up the driveway. they let me know. My Les Bear 1911 pretty much insures that you don't ring my bell at 3:30 AM..

[oneofthe99]

5. I doubt anyone would try with two big barking dogs , people know the

sound of a big bark and an ankle biter bark

Still you never know this day and age with home invasions
Next time tell your husband to chamber a round

If he needs to fire in self defense having a round chambered should be automatic
when checking out a possible threat.

Worst sound is click when a firearm is needed

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. if you are coming in my frony door, I'm asking questons later.

[gwheezie]

10. glad it was nothing

Reminds me a few years back, we had a rash of minor vandalism and robbery going on. Now I live out in the woods, you can't even see my house from the road but one night someone opened that pasture gate and my horses ran loose, one got knocked down by a car, just grazed her, no one was hurt but it was a gate in the back of my pasture going into the woodline that I never used except to open it to get to the trail, I know I didn't leave it open. Same thing happened to the neighbor across the road, horses and goats turned loose. Neighbor down the road had tools taken from her truck. One night the next door neighbor saw car come down her driveway when she was out in the middle of the night grabbing a smoke, when she stood up they backed out to the road, she recognized the car as the one belonging to the family with the rowdy kids. Now we are all armed with something out here in the woods and sooner or later someone would do something out of fear. So the guy across the road went over to the family and told the parents what we thought their kids were up to and no one really had to say it, they knew that sooner or later if their kids were sneaking around in the middle of the night, they would eventually meet someone with a gun, the vandalism stopped. As angry as I was about my horses and the fact if she had been hit head on it certainly would have wound up with a dead driver and dead horse, when I realized it was some dopey kids, I was glad none of us dealt with it with a gun. It would be hard to live with myself if I shot someone's dopey teenager over pranks and minor vandalism.