Godscreation
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Any fans of the movie "The Patriot" will appreciate the subtitle of my topic.
Today is Christmas and I had my ex LEO brother over for Christmas. He's 25 and I'm 23 and we were comparing war stories and firearms. His story topped all of mine, so I'm going to tell about it here.
One day while staying at his house alone, he heard a knock at the door. He opened the door and their stood a black man about his age. The man tried to solicit him for a magazine subscription. my brother politely refused, but did notice the man trying to peer around him and look past him. Mind you there is a locked screen door between them. My brother then excused the man from his property and shut the main door.
Moments later he heard a noise through his thin walls. He peered out the window and saw the man in his back yard walking close to the house craning his neck for what we can only guess is for a window or something. My brother then went to his room and retrieved his Remington 870 tactical shotgun that looks something like but not exactly like this.
http://www.bimmerpost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=311051&d=1254356113
He loaded up the gun and chambered a round. He then walked out the door and sneaked to the corner of the house and peered around to see the man with his back to him still craning his neck slowly making his way along the house. My brother then emerged around the corner, trained the gun on the man and yelled "Let me see your hands!" The man whirled around and threw his hands up in the air saying "woa easy man easy! woa easy!" My brother ordered him to place his hands on the house and spread his feet. The man obeyed the orders to the letter and my brother then placed a call to the police department. While waiting my brother asked him what in the world he was doing in the backyard. The man said he was confused and thought there was another house behind his house. My brother's house mind you, is a small house off a main road with an acre of woods behind it.
The man's luck went from bad to worse when the officer that showed up happened to be my brother's graduating buddy from the police academy. The officer searched the man and ran his ID and found he had three outstanding warrants. The man was then taken straight to jail.
Looking back in hindsight from our armchairs, do you think this reaction was too strong? Should a call to the police of a suspicious person been enough? Should he have let the guy wander and only use the gun if he tried to break in? Or was this action suitable?
Any fans of the movie "The Patriot" will appreciate the subtitle of my topic.
Today is Christmas and I had my ex LEO brother over for Christmas. He's 25 and I'm 23 and we were comparing war stories and firearms. His story topped all of mine, so I'm going to tell about it here.
One day while staying at his house alone, he heard a knock at the door. He opened the door and their stood a black man about his age. The man tried to solicit him for a magazine subscription. my brother politely refused, but did notice the man trying to peer around him and look past him. Mind you there is a locked screen door between them. My brother then excused the man from his property and shut the main door.
Moments later he heard a noise through his thin walls. He peered out the window and saw the man in his back yard walking close to the house craning his neck for what we can only guess is for a window or something. My brother then went to his room and retrieved his Remington 870 tactical shotgun that looks something like but not exactly like this.
http://www.bimmerpost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=311051&d=1254356113
He loaded up the gun and chambered a round. He then walked out the door and sneaked to the corner of the house and peered around to see the man with his back to him still craning his neck slowly making his way along the house. My brother then emerged around the corner, trained the gun on the man and yelled "Let me see your hands!" The man whirled around and threw his hands up in the air saying "woa easy man easy! woa easy!" My brother ordered him to place his hands on the house and spread his feet. The man obeyed the orders to the letter and my brother then placed a call to the police department. While waiting my brother asked him what in the world he was doing in the backyard. The man said he was confused and thought there was another house behind his house. My brother's house mind you, is a small house off a main road with an acre of woods behind it.
The man's luck went from bad to worse when the officer that showed up happened to be my brother's graduating buddy from the police academy. The officer searched the man and ran his ID and found he had three outstanding warrants. The man was then taken straight to jail.
Looking back in hindsight from our armchairs, do you think this reaction was too strong? Should a call to the police of a suspicious person been enough? Should he have let the guy wander and only use the gun if he tried to break in? Or was this action suitable?