I have three children, a 21 year old son, a 19 year old daughter and a 13 year old son. Here's the scenario. My 13 year-old is away at sleep away camp for the summer so he's not home. My older son and daughter both went to their friends houses out east for the weekend, so they were both supposedly not home or coming home until yesterday (Monday) morning. My oldest son tells me specifically Sunday afternoon that he's sleeping at his friends house because they're gonna be drinking and no one is going to drive (all good). Sunday night, my wife and I go to bed not expecting either of our children to come home and at 2:00 am, we hear the burglar alarm warning chime going off that a door has been opened; then silence, then another chime. My wife and I are both startled, groggy and somewhat disoriented from being fast asleep but she says "what the hell was that, go see whats going on". At this point, I didn't grab my gun because I'm not too worried since the alarm is not actually going off, but I open my bedroom door and in the darkness, I see two men walking down the hall which under the circumstances was very alarming so I yell out and it's my son and his friend who decided to take an Uber because he wanted to sleep in his own bed. Now, he shoots with me all the time, so he is very aware that there are firearms in my house.
I'm telling this story as it was very sobering to me and wanted to share it because this could have ended VERY badly. For the next several hours, I laid awake thinking about what could have happened. Here I was, startled awake in the middle of the night, not expecting anyone to be coming home, but knowing someone had entered the house. I was groggy but on edge and I jumped out of my skin when I opened my bedroom door and saw the shadows of two guys walking down my upstairs hallway. The adrenaline spiked for sure and who knows what reflexes would have kicked in at that moment had I had a loaded gun in my hands. Your senses and mindset are not the same when you get jostled out of bed out of a sound sleep.
Food for thought....
I'm telling this story as it was very sobering to me and wanted to share it because this could have ended VERY badly. For the next several hours, I laid awake thinking about what could have happened. Here I was, startled awake in the middle of the night, not expecting anyone to be coming home, but knowing someone had entered the house. I was groggy but on edge and I jumped out of my skin when I opened my bedroom door and saw the shadows of two guys walking down my upstairs hallway. The adrenaline spiked for sure and who knows what reflexes would have kicked in at that moment had I had a loaded gun in my hands. Your senses and mindset are not the same when you get jostled out of bed out of a sound sleep.
Food for thought....
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