I hope You get your Boat and gear back Brother! That Sucks! A little story for you guys who think killing people over property is easy to deal with. True Story, Back in 1997 I was a Federal armed guard, going through State police tactical, and working the graveyard shift. My wife kept telling me strange things were happening at night in the neighborhood, Dogs barking, Cars broken into, Homes broken into, people walking in our yard at night, and drugs moving into the area. I switched from graveyard to days after she told me her and the kids were so scared they all would sleep together in the front room. 3 weeks later one morning about 1:30am I heard something at my window. I looked up half asleep and there was a guy coming through my bedroom window where my wife would not sleep by herself at night. The thief obviously knew no one was sleeping in there. I took a double take he was 5 feet away from me. Next thing I knew he was trying to stab me with something and the fight was on. He stabbed me in the stomach with a screw driver he used to pry my window open. After a good scuffle and me putting the hurting to him he decides to go for the window as I was going for my 45. My gun was in a safe couldn't open it in time. I grabbed my knife and he was screaming and yelling for me to stop in a different language. He jumped or "fell" ( fell was my version) through the window and ran. All i could think about was my family. I checked with them and all was OK. My wife had already heard the fighting and called 911. They did there crime scene things and finally talked to me in the ambulance. There was a sawed off shotgun outside my bedroom window, the thief was going for it when I stabbed him but there was 3 peoples tracks outside my window, So he told me It could have been tragic for my family if I was not there. They followed the blood trail about a block away and it stopped where there was burnoff markes from the getaway car. The next day at work a detective comes to me and tells me they got the guy. His buddies did not take him to the hostpital they dropped him off on Marine drive and he blead to death. The news got wind of it and tried to make me out to be some hero. I did an interview and told them I was protecting my family and I was not trying to be some hero or kill the guy. The male interviewer told me at the end of the interview that, " I quote " Good Job Man" Got another POS drug addicted thief off the streets. I flew off the handle, told the guy off, and tried to explain to him how I was waking up everynight, having nightmares, questioning myself on how I could have handled it without taking another humans life. The interview was edited out on the news imagine that. I know now there was no other way. It was him or my family. Thank God it was him and my tactical training kicked in. Morale of the story is ladies and Gentlemen. I have been there and it is not so easy to live with after taking a life, there is not a day that goes by that i do not think about that morning. So before you say things out of anger, think about it is it really worth taking a life, cause I wish to God I could go back, change what happened, and the drug addicted thief was alive and in prison today. Killing them is the easy way out for them. Prison, getting help, learning there lesson, making a positive impact in the world, and having a second chance if granted is a much better alternative. Another lesson I learned is, my gun is under my pillow at night instead of in my safe! I just had to give my opinion. Have a nice day!
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