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    Granddaughter wwas an indirect victim of a home invasion yesterday

    At noontime Friday three guys kicked in the front door of the house where her boyfriend lives (they are all students at Texas Tech University in Lubbock).

    Fortunately she & her boyfriend were not present during the robbery - they were out on campus for lunch.

    Granddaughter and her girlfriends live in a condo a mile away.

    Anyway, the three crooks pointed a gun at her boyfriend's roommate & his girlfriend, made them strip nekkid and lie down in the bathtub covered by a blanket. The bad guys then stole all the TVs, computers, textbooks, & IPads in the house, along with a small safe that had $900 cash in it. Granddaughter's $700 laptop (a present from us) and her Ipad were among the purloined loot.

    Thank God nobody was hurt or raped. Those electronics can be replaced.
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    I have a handgun for her in my safe here, but don't think it's a good idea for her to keep it in a college condo where a lot of partying goes on.

    I told her to keep a couple of cans of wasp & hornet spray handy in their Lubbock place - it's more effective than pepper spray.

    Her dad is going to get her some small cans of pepper spray to carry in her car & purse.

    Whenever she has her own place after graduating, you can bet grandpa will fix her up with a handgun & home defense shotgun.

    Yes, she is proficient with firearms.
    This is the stainless steel S&W .22 I bought for her when she was 12 (bought her twin brother one just like it except in blue finish):

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    • #3
      Sounds like hunting season is open in Texas. I'm glad nobody was harmed but I'd sure like to open a can of whoop arse on the scum bags involved.

      I'm sure they were abused children or didn't make the team in school but no excuse for this. Texas is one of the better places for punishment if they get caught and they will get caught eventually. Weather they are linked to this crime or not doesn't matter.
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      • #4
        Glad no one was hurt. Never know when how these things will go when this happen.
        Its a shame people are'nt safe in thier own place

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        • #5
          Be thankful no one was hurt. There's a big difference between being robbed and being physically injured or worse. Have you, or they, figured out how they were targeted? Crooks usually have an idea of the available loot, be it drugs, money or other stuff.
          Judging by today's left wing, looks like Senator Joe McCarthy was right after all.

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          • #6
            They are thinking one of the perps had been in the house previously - possibly a friend of a friend. They knew about all the good stuff and the little safe with the cash.
            A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
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            • #7
              Door kicked in and 3 guys pointing guns is a loosing defense proposition. Don't go for the gun, or spray of any kind, unless you're betting your life that they simply won't shoot. In the risk analysis, defending is a total loose - out numbered, outgunned - so it's down to the odds of will they shoot or not. Risk of them shooting is lower if no aggression toward them, so take the best path of the bad options.

              I wonder if they bad guys know the victims. The strip, into the tub, cover with a blanket is very kind of the bad guys. Almost protective.
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              • #8
                Victims only saw one gun, but it looked big enough to them. lol
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Armybrat View Post
                  They are thinking one of the perps had been in the house previously - possibly a friend of a friend. They knew about all the good stuff and the little safe with the cash.
                  A very common scenario. Do the police have the names?
                  Judging by today's left wing, looks like Senator Joe McCarthy was right after all.

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                  • #10
                    If she lives on campus, she can't have one anyway on campus. Off campus is a whole different story.

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                    • #11
                      Also wasp/hornet spray? Can we say aggravated assault? I know that is supposed to work better than OC, but here's the thing it's a neurotoxin and will cause blindness (serious bodily injury, hence the agg. assault, plus the use shows intent) unless treated quick fast and in a hurry. No, better use that for what it's for unless it just happens to land in the hand but the odds of that are slim to none. Good shotgun is good idea, but something other than wasp/hornet spray is better. Just my .02.
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                        Glad it was only a shake down, coulda been a lot worse....
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by jdlott74 View Post
                          If she lives on campus, she can't have one anyway on campus. Off campus is a whole different story.
                          She can have one on campus if she is of age.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by muggsy View Post
                            She can have one on campus if she is of age.
                            Not in Texas. And she's only 19.

                            But she lives off campus, so she could have a firearm in her condo.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by jlottmc View Post
                              Also wasp/hornet spray? Can we say aggravated assault? I know that is supposed to work better than OC, but here's the thing it's a neurotoxin and will cause blindness (serious bodily injury, hence the agg. assault, plus the use shows intent) unless treated quick fast and in a hurry. No, better use that for what it's for unless it just happens to land in the hand but the odds of that are slim to none. Good shotgun is good idea, but something other than wasp/hornet spray is better. Just my .02.
                              All the better reason to use it, imo. With no reason to disbelieve ignorance of excessively harmful human effect there's no "intent".
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