A Reddit user said the one time he actually pointed a gun at someone happened at his own house early in the morning. According to his comment in the thread, it was about 6 a.m. when a man he described as a meth head started banging on his front door. The poster was not out on the road, not in a parking lot, and not carrying outside the house when this happened. He was at home when somebody started hammering on the front door hard enough to force a decision.
He wrote that he opened the door only a crack and told the man to get lost. He also told him the cops were on the line. From the way he told it, that should have been the moment for the guy outside to back off if there was any chance this was confusion or some harmless nonsense. Instead, the man escalated immediately. He yelled something unintelligible, jammed his foot into the opening, and produced a pocket knife. So now the situation had gone from pounding on the door to an armed man physically trying to keep the door from closing.
The homeowner said he moved three steps back and brought the gun up on him. Then he told the man that if he took another step into the house, he would kill him. According to the comment, that was enough. The intruder ran off. The poster said he never saw him again. No shots were fired, but the whole thing had already crossed into the kind of home-defense scenario where there was almost no space left between warning and gunfire.
That was the full story he gave in the thread: pounding at 6 a.m., a cracked-open front door, a foot shoved in to stop it from closing, a pocket knife coming out, and a homeowner forced to step back and aim a gun inside his own house to stop the next move.
What do you think — if somebody had their foot in your front door at 6 in the morning and pulled a knife when you told them to leave, would you have backed up and drawn the same way he did?
Original Reddit post: When was the closest time you’ve come to drawing?
