Some home defense alternatives

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124. Can your dog run faster than 1485 feet per second?

About 25 years ago I worked as an armed, uniformed, security guard at an apartment complex. The complex had a central building that had the mailboxes for all the apartments. As I was walking my rounds a Doberman bolted out of the mail room, charging at me, growling and snarling. Since there was no way I could outrun him, and nowhere to go to, I drew my .357 and leveled it at the dog as he charged. At the last split second, as I was about to shoot, he stopped. I guess he was confused that I didn't run away. Then a lady stepped out of the mail room, saw the situation, and yelled, "He won't bite." The dog was still snarling. I replied, "Get control of your dog or I will shoot." I lowered the gun so she could approach, but kept it at the ready in case the dog decided to attack. Once she had control of the dog, I told her, "Lady, this city (Gulfport, MS) has leash laws. If I had shot your dog there would not have been anything you could have done about it. And I came very close to shooting him as he was charging at me." From then on, everytime I saw her with the dog, it was on a leash.

The Doberman started his attack run from about 100 feet away. I had my gun out and pointed at him before he was on me. Even if he had been close enough to jump me, I still could have finished the draw and shot the dog.

At the time of entry an armed intruder would likely have the gun already in his hand. He can also react in tenths of a second to pull the trigger.

An armed intruder would call your dog, an easy target.