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Guns in the Home Surprise Criminals

meangene2 Wrote: Jan 15, 2013 3:06 PM

This is why I dont believe a shotgun is best for home protection. A good hangun would have taken snoop dog out and given you the chance of hittinfg the second perp in the face. Yes your sister inlaw might have gotten injured but you all could have been raped and murdered by giving up your gun. Nuff said. Thankful you are all OK!!!!!

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Guns in the Home Surprise Criminals

(This true-crime event took place the night of Nov. 13^th 1981.)

A duck hunt loomed in the morning so I hit the bed early, where my wife Shirley (six-months pregnant) was reading. Elaine, her sister, was due home from the show any minute……

Suddenly all hell broke loose downstairs— door crashed in, shrieks, bumps, whacks. “Shut-up!”

“Oh NO!! NO!!”

“SHUT UP, I SAID!!”

Geezum! Somebody broke in?! And I could hear Elaine screaming. I leaped from my bed to the gun rack, grabbed the pump shotgun and started slipping in shells.

“Don’t shoot!” came Elaine’s cry from the darkness downstairs. She...

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