{"id":70171,"date":"2017-02-13T09:41:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=70171"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:41:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:21:57","slug":"ep-42-shoot-call-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/ep-42-shoot-call-911\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? When Do You Call 911?"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Img26796-KW.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-42-shoot-call-911\" title=\"Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? When Do You Call 911?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? When Do You Call 911?\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Img26796-KW.jpg\" alt=\"Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? When Do You Call 911?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Img26796-KW.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Img26796-KW-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Img26796-KW-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Img26796-KW-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Img26796-KW-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> The following is a post by Ed Combs, the Associate Editor of Concealed Carry Magazine. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the last five episodes in this series:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-37-shoot-crazy-man-knife\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-42-shoot-call-911\" title=\"Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? When Do You Call 911?\">Ep. 37 Should I Shoot? The Crazy Man With the Knife<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/shoot-ep-38-lunch-date\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-42-shoot-call-911\" title=\"Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? When Do You Call 911?\">Ep. 38 Should I Shoot? Lunch Date Gone Wrong<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/shoot-ep-39-mad-bro\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-42-shoot-call-911\" title=\"Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? When Do You Call 911?\">Ep. 39 Should I Shoot? \u2018You Mad, Bro?\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-40-should-i-shoot\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-42-shoot-call-911\" title=\"Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? When Do You Call 911?\">Ep. 40 Should I Shoot? Your Carry Gun vs. the Man with the AK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-41-should-i-shoot-know-the-j-a-m-calculation-jeopardy-ability-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-42-shoot-call-911\" title=\"Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? When Do You Call 911?\">Ep. 41 Should I Shoot? Do You Carry in the Home? Do You Know the J.A.M. Calculation?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, we\u2019ve all had a pretty harrowing few months here at \u201cShould I Shoot?\u201d what with all of the random attacks and razor-thin margins for error and borderline exchanges of gunfire. Let\u2019s take this week off and just have a seat, pour a cup of coffee or a tall tea, put our feet up and scan the local news.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say that you\u2019re doing just that and come across a story about a semi-rural man in your area who shot an intruder in his home.<\/p>\n<p>The resident heard a scratching noise in his dilapidated garage at about 10 p.m. Thinking it was likely the raccoon that had recently been raiding his trash cans that the county demanded be stored \u201cindoors or otherwise secured,\u201d he grabbed and charged a 20-gauge pump shotgun that he\u2019d left by the door in hopes of getting a shot at the furry little bandit as it ran out into the wooded area behind his garage.<\/p>\n<p>When he got to the unlocked door that connected his kitchen to his garage, he still heard the noise, so he opened the door very quickly and jumped through it, slamming it behind him. (The last thing he wanted to do was have the raccoon get into his house.) Turning on the light and grabbing the doorknob of the door that led to the backyard, he saw &#8230; a middle-aged man pulling a knife from the sheath on his belt while stumbling toward him, eyes bugged out, obviously very startled and angry.<\/p>\n<p>The resident instinctively pointed and fired a load of #6 birdshot into the upper chest cavity of the burglar-turned-attacker, who promptly died before the resident could even dial 911.<\/p>\n<p>Well, dang.\u00a0<em>Neither<\/em>\u00a0of them were expecting\u00a0<em>THAT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This happened about 20 years ago to a mild-mannered semi-rural individual who owned a pump shotgun for a few rounds of clays every summer and the occasional trip to a pheasant farm with some buddies from work. There wasn\u2019t a violent or even particularly aggressive bone in his body; in fact, his blubbering on the phone made the 911 dispatcher initially think that\u00a0<em>he <\/em>was the one who\u2019d been shot, and then when his wife came downstairs and learned what had happened, she grabbed the phone and made it sound as if\u00a0<em>another<\/em>\u00a0man had been shot since the resident first called. Like they so often are, this deadly-force encounter quickly went from a completely normal evening to a complete disaster in the span of seconds.<\/p>\n<p>So, you\u2019re reading this story on your phone or in your local paper and it gets you thinking:<\/p>\n<p>What if he\u2019d gone out there with a broom to shoo the animal out the door? What if his\u00a0wife\u00a0had gone out there with a broom to shoo the animal out the door? What if, rather than his survival instinct fortunately kicking in and saving his mild-mannered hide with the shotgun he was fortunate enough to be holding, he\u2019d been holding a broom that would have turned the circumstance from a rather clear-cut defensive gun use into the world\u2019s most exciting karate tournament?<\/p>\n<p>All\u00a0of this gets you thinking about the line we read in so many of these use-of-force stories:\u00a0<em>\u201cThe homeowner took up a firearm and went to investigate.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, in a break from form, I guess I have to ask:\u00a0<strong><em>Should I call<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>If you hear \u201ca noise\u201d that seems out of place \u2014 night or day \u2014 do you call the police before you do anything else? Maybe the non-emergency number, just to let them know that you heard something weird and you\u2019re going to investigate?<\/p>\n<p>Well \u2026 no. Were you to call your local police non-emergency number every time you heard a strange noise, you would quickly become that department&#8217;s least-favorite citizen. (Believe it or not, some people actually\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0call the non-emergency number every time they hear a noise; any dispatcher could tell you stories you wouldn&#8217;t believe.) Moreover, were you to call 911 every time you heard a weird noise and didn&#8217;t stop after several stern talking-tos from shift sergeants, you would likely be literally jailed.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this a serious problem is that quite often, after someone has no choice but to employ deadly force in self-defense, a common question from the anti-gunners is, \u201cWell, why didn\u2019t he call the cops?\u201d (<em>SPOILER ALERT:<\/em>\u00a0Had he thought that the situation merited a call to the cops or had he the time to do so, guess what?\u00a0<em>He would have called the cops.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>I mean, think about it.<\/p>\n<p>If I know that I have a load of laundry in the dryer and if I know that there are rivets on some of those jeans, I\u2019ll understand that there will likely be some noises emanating from that dryer. Every now and then, though, I\u2019ll hear something odd enough coming from my laundry room that I\u2019m going to walk over and make sure that the washer isn\u2019t unbalanced and making a run for the guest bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>And when I do so, I\u2019ll be \u2014 at least in the eyes of the law \u2014 \u201ctaking up a firearm to go investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As someone who is basically always carrying a handgun or handguns whenever he\u2019s not sleeping or bathing, I am by definition \u201ctaking up a firearm to go investigate\u201d anytime I go anywhere to investigate anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Should I call?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I\u2019m going anywhere on my property and I\u2019m carrying a gun, if I end up having to use it to defend myself, all of a sudden, now I\u2019m a guy who \u201ctook up a firearm to go investigate\u201d and didn\u2019t call emergency services before doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Which, to be honest, doesn\u2019t always play the best in a police report or in a prosecutor&#8217;s opening statement.<\/p>\n<p>My rule of thumb is that if I\u2019m not specifically thinking that what\u2019s about to happen will possibly be dangerous, I never call\u00a0<em>anything<\/em>\u00a0in. If I do think that something might be dangerous and I am specifically headed over with a firearm, I\u2019m calling 911 and explaining exactly what\u2019s going on (situation permitting, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, the latter is only about 0.00001 percent of anyone\u2019s daily activities.<\/p>\n<p>So, let\u2019s say you hear something at\u00a02:30\u00a0tomorrow morning, and it\u2019s weird enough that you\u2019re hopping out of bed. It could be the furnace, could be the water heater, could be the dog &#8230; you have no idea. Since the world can be a not-so-nice place when it\u2019s dark, you grab a flashlight and a sidearm.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Should I call?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d be interested to know what you think.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more critical information on the use of deadly force and other firearms and self-defense topics, visit\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica\" campaign=\"USCCAShouldIShoot\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you hear \u201ca noise\u201d that seems out of place \u2014 night or day \u2014 do you call the police before you do anything else? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":70172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,234,262,892,216],"tags":[132,586,291,844,626,642],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-columns","9":"category-defensive-use-of-firearms","10":"category-columns-home-defense","11":"category-s-h-blannelberry","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-column","14":"tag-dgu","15":"tag-home-defense","16":"tag-opinion","17":"tag-should-i-shoot"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ep. 42 Should I Shoot? 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