Good job! This is why I shoot to kill. I give a verbal warning, and I attempt to flee, as my state law requires, but I'll admit, I don't try to flee half as hard as I try to aim. And it's for the exact same reason: The bad guys will not get my children. I've been in a similar situation. For days, I knew there was someone casing my house. Strange vehicles that had no place in the neighborhood. Footprints in the snow around the windows. Cigarette butts by the dozens on the edge of the woods across the street from my home. I knew. I drilled myself on the time it would take me access the guns and ammo, I practiced, I kept the phone within arms reach. ANd at 11:30 at night, when it was just me and three kids, it happened. The news ended, I turned off the TV, and heard movement at one of the back windows. THe dog was outside, using the potty for the last time of the night. I couldn't bring him in without opening the door. That wasn't going to happen. I shut my children's bedroom door on the way to my room, grabbed the gun, grabbed the phone, and ran back to the living room. I dialed 911, set the phone down, and repeated three times, "Home invasion in progress, (my address). I am armed, I will shoot to kill, fleeing is not a physical option." WHich, for me, fleeing is not a physical option. I can't run, my back locks up, I hit the floor and then I'm really screwed. The person was in my home by this point, seperated from me by a door that was built at the turn of the century...I gave my verbal warning: "Retreat or I will shoot to kill." I heard a good amount of scrambling, I assume that was one intruder going out the window. I had my finger on the trigger, in case that door opened. Luckily it never did. My roommate came around the corner saw one guy running away, and pulled his truck right up to the window of the house that they used to enter. The guy pretty much just sat down on the floor and waited for the police. That was a wise decision. There was a hormonal woman with a handgun on one side of him, and a 2 1/2 ton truck with a pissed off driver on the other. Waiting for the police was his best option. If that door had opened, if he had coughed, if my roommate would have shown up 5 minutes later, I would have killed him. The police only asked me two things: Would you have shot him, and did you try to flee? yes, I would have shot him, and I fled as far as my physical condition and maternal instinct would allow me to go.
I fully support her. I have seen comments that she should have waited for the police...let's see. At the time she shot the guy, he was already in her home, the police were nowhere in sight. She had been on the phone with 911 for 20+ minutes. She was on her own, she had the right to shoot them, and she acted within those rights. I'm sure there are people that will say that if she could have the presence of mind to give the baby a bottle and speak calmly, she could have grabbed the child and ran...to where? You should never have to flee from your home because an unauthorized person entered without your permission and through a locked door. Thankfully, when people do that, we have the right to kill or severely injure them. I hope this serves as a lesson to people in the future, don't go in someone else's house, no matter how vulnerable they may seem. Unless they invite you in, you aren't supposed to be there. Trying to get through that door anyway might get you shot. Never threaten a mother with a child to protect. We are the most dangerous species on the planet.