I’m with Glee (albeit in NZ).
Can’t imagine such a scenario but ok, I’d call the police, grab my daughter and disappear into any of the neighboring houses.
Skald: is this person fixated on just me, or is he going to kill my loved ones if he sees them on the street? Different answers, depending.
He has acquired a gun? It is simple then. Based on what I have learned at this board, all I have to do is wait. Somebody will steal the gun from him and possibly kill him with it. Or, he may shoot himself with it. Or, it may just spontaneously go off on it own and kill him. Really, he has already sealed his own doom.
I just got to work, so I’d call the cops, fill them in, and give them my number. Hopefully there’ll be a safe conclusion to the situation before my morning break.
Phone the police, lock the front door, escape out the back (also locking the door), go over the fence to the neighbor’s place and wait there for the police. Might take a kitchen knife with me just in case.
No, silly, that only applies to Responsible Gun Owners. Homicidal maniacs are a whole 'nother story. (And that’s a serious answer, despite the tone. But let’s not derail the thread further.)
I’d wake my husband and I’d call 911. He’d make me hide somewhere while he loaded one or more of the guns he owns.
I hope the cops get here first though. I don’t want my husband to be forced to kill someone.
Call the Sheriff’s office and grab my Saiga 12ga and extra magazines. Call my neighbors for help. Go lie down in the field about 100 feet from the house. We only have a single lane gravel road into our subdivision, so unless he’s going to walk through 1/2 mile of woods he’s not sneaking in.
[ul][li]Call 911[/li][li]Send my wife and daughter to the basement with one of the guns and the dog[/li][li]My son gets his rifle, and I get the shotgun[/li][li]Sit tight and see who gets here first, the police or the nutjob. I suspect it will be the police.[/li][li]If it is the police, they arrest him, possibly shooting him a few times first.[/li][li]If it is the nutjob, either I shoot him, or at least I occupy his attention while my son shoots him.[/li][li]If the nutjob gets past both of us - not entirely likely, since my son has been in combat and is a good shot - but if so and he goes after my wife and daughter, then the dog engages his attention while my wife blows his head off.[/ul][/li]Regards,
Shodan
Cal the police, get in my car, drive somewhere random.
Just a bit of clarification about my thinking in post #3…
I’m working off the assumption that there’s likely at least one, if not several police cars within a 2-5 minute drive of my house (I live not too far from a rough area), and more importantly, that if nutjob shows to my house before the cops do, he’ll probably not just break straight in, and maybe the cops can get him before he breaks in and something happens.
The concern with just fleeing is that if this guy really is armed, dangerous and out to get me, he’ll probably just leave after not finding me at my house, and then we’re back to square one, and without much real proof or anything that would convince the cops to lock his ass up. I’d rather resolve the situation than just postpone it.
GTFO of the house. No question. There’s all sorts of doors and windows he could sneak in or force open, and what if the police are dealing with six other maniacal killers at the same time and I simply have to wait my turn?
Even if I was armed, I would leave. Staking my life that I will have the drop on him, or that the phone call is accurate that he is 10 minutes – and not 30 seconds – away, or that the police will find him before he makes entry to the house? No thank you. I think it’s pretty much a horrible idea to count on having a gunfight, and winning, when there are other options available.
I would go outside and tell said nutjob that this was a gun free zone and he should just go home.
Call the cops and clue them in, grab a couple speed-loaders for my S&W (I usually don’t keep them on my person especially around the house), get out the side-by-side and load it up and then basically wait and see how it plays out.
I call the police.
I lock the doors.
I remember that this isn’t some Really Bad movie on cable.
1 - call the cops
2 - exit my development and drive across the main road to an adjacent development - park out of sight of main road
3 - wait till the cops deal with said nutjob
Good luck with that.
Well it’s a toss-up between making a run for the orphanage next door, or the old people’s home on the opposite side of the street.
The old people would be easier to hide behind as they’re slower-moving. But on the other hand an orphan would be much smaller and lighter, so easier to hold up in front of me.
Hmmm.
I’ve got to say, I’m rather shocked that so many folks are answering that they would stay at home. It just strikes me as absolutely the wrong thing to do, even if one is armed. For those who answer this way, can you help illustrate why you think this is the right thing to do?
For example, if you are armed, what do you think the odds are that you kill or stop the crazy dude before he wounds or kills you or any family member? Is it 100%, in your view? 98%? 90%?
If you are not armed, what do you believe the odds are that the police show up and stop the guy before he can enter your house? 100%? 98%? 90%?
Call the cops first. Then, if I had a rifle Id grab it and a GoPro and wait for the guy in a place where there would be a least 50 feet from where he had to exit his car and me. Id yell ‘Hey, maniac!!’ and hope he would point his glock at me. If he did id pick him off with the rifle. 