Suggest a smaller weapon to wound but not kill

[Obed]

If you are going to shoot an intruder, shoot to kill them. Dead. An injured trespasser will hire up some hot-shot attorney and sue your pants off. No thanks.

Owning a few acres and backhoe attachment for the tractor also make for a very handy option. That way the parents or druggy wife of the perp won't sue you either. In addition you will help the intruder for the first time perform a service to the world by feeding some worms.

Theodore Roosevelt said to avoid a fight if at all possible but if you must fight, DON'T HIT SOFTLY.

Obed

 

[Sigarms]

Every month the NRA magazines have a page or two listing persons who have used a firearm for self defense. Some result in shooting...others, just displaying the firearm was enough to stop the assault.
Few of those folks were professional and some had little experience with firearms. But all had the guts to defend what was theirs.

And you could probably multiply those examples by at least 10 on how many people are injured due to incompetence with firearms.

Owning a few acres and backhoe attachment for the tractor also make for a very handy option. That way the parents or druggy wife of the perp won't sue you either. In addition you will help the intruder for the first time perform a service to the world by feeding some worms.

That is nothing but a stupid comment.

If you have to hide your actions in the defense of you or your family, you're nothing but a coward in my book and perhaps no better than a murderer.

 

[SixHoeBob]

Owning a few acres and backhoe attachment for the tractor also make for a very handy option. That way the parents or druggy wife of the perp won't sue you either. In addition you will help the intruder for the first time perform a service to the world by feeding some worms.

Theodore Roosevelt said to avoid a fight if at all possible but if you must fight, DON'T HIT SOFTLY.

Obed

What do you do with the assailant's vehicle?

Do you think he/she told anyone of his itinerary?

 

[Iplayfarmer]

...That is nothing but a stupid comment.

If you have to hide your actions in the defense of you or your family, you're nothing but a coward in my book and perhaps no better than a murderer.

I thought it was funny. I assumed it was sarcastic.

 

[Mace Canute]

Owning a few acres and backhoe attachment for the tractor also make for a very handy option.

That reminded me of the TV mini-series Chiefs way back in 1983. The one Police Chief snuck up behind a guy digging a hole and asked "Whatcha planting, Foxy?" which of course immediately resulted in Foxy turning around and braining the Chief with his shovel, since Foxy was in the process of planting a body. Cut to the next scene where the dead chief is seated behind the wheel of his Black & White in a BIG hole with dirt being thrown on it.

 

[jonyyuma]

Sounds like the movie Used Cars. I really enjoy that movie. the owner of the lot died and they buried him behind the shop in his Edsel...sitting up.

 

[two_bit_score]

moon clips...


soundguy

Yeah...and that is what the S&W uses for the .45 ACp rounds. But if it's not sold for that round is it a good idea to put it in there?

 

[dieselbeef]

wasp spray..shoots 25 ft..it will fook you up

 

[Car Doc]

Have her go cut a switch off of a tree and keep that handy and give the robbers swats for being bad.

 

[bstrom]

I waded through some of this thread. There were a few common sense answers including one that said "assess the need". In other words does Mom live in a high crime area? If you do get robbed which is a pretty slim chance even in a high crime area, most of the time they want your stuff to sell for their or someone else's drug addiction or some other desperate reason. If they see a little old lady with a gun that's not sure whether to pull the trigger, well then there is probably going to be a lot worse trouble. How come almost nobody ever realizes this? You just tell her to let them take the ****. It's just stuff. You can't replace someones life. It's not like T.V. There are a lot of guys that think they are real tough that can't pull the trigger in that moment even if they get to their piece and it's loaded. The police know this, they see the stuff a lot more than we do.

There are better ways, at least in this instance for her to defend her home. If you are worried talk to the local police about ways she can protect herself and her house and let them know she is alone.