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I've had to use my gun in self defense three times in my life, twice on the same guy, thankfully none of those scenarios ended in me shooting anyone but had I not had my gun I think there is a good chance I'd be dead.
The first two were with my abusive dad, the first time he got drunk, stole her car keys so she couldn't go to work and took off in his truck. We found him still drinking in his truck parked by the river, fought with him to get the keys back and eventually called the cops to have them come get them. He threatened to drive off again and hide if the cops were coming and was telling my brother and I all about how he was going to get that bitch (our mother) fired. When he went to drive off I clocked him in the jaw through the window hoping to knock him out and take the keys out of his pocket which is where he had them. It didn't knock him out and instead he threw the truck into reverse, sped backwards then stopped, aimed at me and came flying at me trying to run me over with the truck. I got out of the way and drew my weapon then charged the vehicle as he was backing up to make another go at me and got my gun aimed at him. He finally surrendered the keys but the cops never showed.
The second time I came over for a surprise visit with my wife and apparently my parents had gotten into some argument and dad was drunk so I came in and he was on top of my mother beating the crap out of her. I threw him off of her and told my wife to get my mother in the car and call the cops. My dad went upstairs to his closet and came back down with a gun screaming through the house about how he was going to kill my mother and wife and then kill me, thankfully all his yelling made it easy for me to sneak up on him and put my gun to the back of his head which got him to drop his gun which I kept, once again Police never bothered to show.
The last time was when a guy tried to break into my house, we lived next to a drug dealer for a while in one of those communities where you can tell a developer just put up a bunch of cookie cutter houses one next to the other that were all the same design to make it easy and quick. So our houses were close and had similar appearance, more than once one of his customers had tried to enter my house, usually the dog barking and lights coming on saw them scurry away but this guy was determined. My dog was barking but he was pounding on my door already had pushed through my porch door and was now trying to get into the foyer. I started yelling for him to back off but he was high out of his mind and wasn't listening as he begged me to let him in and kept trying the doorknob and pounding the door to get it to give way. My wife came down the stairs saying she'd called the cops and that freaked him out and he began throwing his whole body weight into the door on the side with the knob trying to break through. I'm not a small guy but this dude was massive, he had nine inches on me easy and I didn't know if I could stop him if he got his hands on me or my wife and that door was heaving with each hit, he'd get through in a matter of a couple more hits I was sure. So I yelled for my wife to cover her ears and raised my gun to shoot, thankfully less then a second before I was about to kill this guy he saw the gun coming up and hit the deck. He muttered something about being in the wrong house apologized and crawled out my porch door he'd already broken through before taking off down the street.
Because of these events I always have my gun and keep one at home for my family just in case, I look at it like carrying my driver's license everywhere. Even if I don't plan on driving, it's always a good idea to have it with you incase you need it. Had I not been armed any of those times I really think it would have ended with me getting run over, shot, or who knows what.
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