re: Using Your Gun for Defense - Stories

Fresh out of LSU, I went to work in Mansfield, La with a large paper company. My wife and I lived on a state highway about 5 miles out of town. We lived in a house built in 1900 that had no A/C at all so we slept with the windows open. The house had a front porch across the front and our bedroom was on one side of the foyer with the LR on the other side of the foyer; front door in the foyer. If someone walked up on the front porch, I pretty much heard them. Several times people came up to the house at night but I never let anyone in. The scariest time was when two young thugs came up and wanted to use the phone. They kept insisting they needed the phone. I kept a loaded 12 gauge pump under the bed. I told them out the window that they needed to leave. They kept on about using the phone, so I told them to wait one. I walked to the door which had a glass portion in it. I turned the porch light on and let them see the gun at port arms. They left in much haste. Didn't sleep much the rest of the night.