Las Vegas police kill victim of home invasion, Brandon Durham, who called 911 for help
Las Vegas police kill victim of home invasion, Brandon Durham, who called 911 for help
Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting in which an officer killed a victim of a home invasion who had called 911 for help.
Officers showed up at the home and found a man struggling with a woman over a knife. An officer opened fire and struck the man, killing him at the scene. Only later did they discover the man who was killed lived at the home and was struggling to fend off the woman who had broken into his home.
Police say Brandon Durham, 43, had called 911 and reported multiple people outside his home shooting, then told the 911 operator that someone had entered his home through the front and back doors and he was locking himself in the bathroom.
He also told the 911 operator that he was home with his 15-year-old daughter, according to police. Officers kicked open the door after arriving on scene and hearing someone screaming as well as damage to vehicles parked outside the property, police said.
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Guy had some violent criminals outside his house trying to break in and hurt him and his family. Calls the cops. Now he's got an extra violent criminal with a gun who breaks into his house and kills him. Why does anyone call the cops anymore???
What else do you do? I get the point but who else deals with that if you can't? At a certain point you have to roll those dice right?
You separate and control both people. You use your police h2h training to deescalate the situation, soak them both in pepper spray or taze them both while you sort out the facts. You get stabbed doing your duty to serve and protect civilians because you knew that is what you signed up for and why police are heroes.......
Oh wait.......
But a gun, learn to use it, call a lawyer then cops. Or gamble on the cops and going fisticuffs with a knife like this poor guy did.
a bunch of guys breaking into your house and you with one gun will probably have the same outcome
especially if you store it safely, locked in a safe, unloaded, ammo separate
a bunch of guys breaking into your house and you with one gun
Welcome to the argument for standard capacity magazines.
Then store it safely, fully loaded, with one in the chamber.
I thought that you are supposed to leave the chamber empty, preventing accidental discharge?
Fair question. Not pulling the trigger prevents accidental discharge.
Having one in chamber saves time. It's one less thing to do in a stressful situation when every millisecond counts. If it's got a safety, train with it engaged and flip it off as part of any exercise.
that's not how responsible gun owners are meant to store it
I agree that cops aren't responsible gun owners.
Uh, no. Firearms are nearly pointless if they cannot be used.
Store it loaded in a quick release safe or hidden in such a manner that it will not be accidentally accessed.
Smash cut to Rambo over here in an actual perceived thread, tripping over his footie pajamas in the dark and shooting himself in the dick with the first bullet and his neighbor in the face with second. Then reveals that the "gang of migrants" "breaking in" was actually just mormon kids knocking on your door to tell you about home pest control service they are also selling on their iPads.
You secured the perimeter, dipshit.
"Just Mormon kids" selling pest control? at 12:40 AM?
Sure is a nice straw man you built for yourself to jerk off over.
Personally I blast a monolog sequence from an old mobster movie and then fire blank rounds of a tommy gun
Basically same, but I don't have blanks...
Hopefully you're firing at least one variety of blanks.
You're rooting for people who break and enter in occupied dwellings instead of a person defending their home, on a post about the cops showing up and shooting the homeowner who was struggling against a home invader attacking them with a knife? Ooooook.
And then give them to the count of 10 to get their ugly, yellow, no-good keister off my property, before I pump their guts full of lead.
