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I was awaken by a loud crashing in my home at around 4am this morning. It sounded like someone coming through a window in either my daughter's room or the room down the hall. I grabbed my gun, checked my daughter's room, then waited a minute listening with my gun pointed down the hallway. I was situated between our bedrooms and the rest of the house. After a few minutes of silence, I swept the house at full alert and didn't find anything.
After double checking every room and entrance, I then realized that a box of toys had spontaneously fallen off of something in my daughter's room. I was very relieved (and a bit embarrassed) when I realized what had happened. But overall, I was pretty happy with my reaction - I had my loaded gun in hand in no more than 4 seconds (I keep it loaded in the original XD plastic gun case next to my bed - and I'm a very light sleeper
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The only thing I debated was if I should have identified myself and that I was armed. I guess this could go two ways - if the bad guy knows you're there and armed, he might bail OR he's going to keep coming, but now with a tactically awareness that you're also armed, and like the classic saying goes, "If you ever find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." What would you do?
After double checking every room and entrance, I then realized that a box of toys had spontaneously fallen off of something in my daughter's room. I was very relieved (and a bit embarrassed) when I realized what had happened. But overall, I was pretty happy with my reaction - I had my loaded gun in hand in no more than 4 seconds (I keep it loaded in the original XD plastic gun case next to my bed - and I'm a very light sleeper
The only thing I debated was if I should have identified myself and that I was armed. I guess this could go two ways - if the bad guy knows you're there and armed, he might bail OR he's going to keep coming, but now with a tactically awareness that you're also armed, and like the classic saying goes, "If you ever find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck." What would you do?