This is my advice as well. I have a firearm located within reach of each door in my home. It is not just the police I worry about. It is also the local girl scouts selling cookies or even a neighbor with some issue. I don't have a desire to show up at the door with a gun in my hand, scaring some neighbor that is simply wanting to ask a simple question. If I recognize the person at the door to be a likely solicitor, I don't answer it. With ring cameras being so inexpensive these days, it is pretty easy to know who is at the door without approaching it.Excaliber wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:20 am Going to the door with a gun in your hand is a bad tactic anywhere.
If you're not going to use a Ring doorbell or other intercom system from somewhere else in the home (best tactic), keep the gun concealed and speak through the door until you establish that the visitor(s) is someone you want to let inside. If not, just speak through the door.
This woman put the LEO's in an extremely bad position where they had to make a decision on what reasonably appeared to be a deadly threat in a second or two.
I'm not going to comment on the number of rounds fired.
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