I live in a small community between Dallas and Denton Texas and just wanted to put out the word. Weekends and evenings everyone is out mowing, running errands, etc. and we are always having the door-bell rang with people selling everything from meat to roofing. Saturday, my next door neighbor was out mowing and had gone back inside for lunch when he saw a man come up his walkway to the front door. My neighbor just ignored the chiming doorbell figuring it was a salesman. He proceed out to his garage and the yard-work, but when entered the garage from the house he found a man crouched inside the open garage behind his car. The man bolted and my neighbor gave chase, but both got away (our guess is that one guy kept you busy at the front door while the other helped himself to your stuff. The police were called, but the would-be robbers are still on the loose, the pair appear to be Hispanic.
My takeaways were mixed, I generally don't carry at home and if they'd picked my house I would have been caught weaponless at the moment. Even if I had been carrying at the time and the BG had bolted I doubt I'd want to chase him through the neighborhood with my weapon raised. Also except as a last resort (I'm attacked) I doubt I'd even shoot, because of the danger of hitting my neighbors, in this case I'd let the police handle the situation. What are your thoughts?
My takeaways were mixed, I generally don't carry at home and if they'd picked my house I would have been caught weaponless at the moment. Even if I had been carrying at the time and the BG had bolted I doubt I'd want to chase him through the neighborhood with my weapon raised. Also except as a last resort (I'm attacked) I doubt I'd even shoot, because of the danger of hitting my neighbors, in this case I'd let the police handle the situation. What are your thoughts?