A Reddit user said the whole thing happened at his mother’s house after she had recently fled a domestic violence situation. He wrote that she had moved back into her old place, and he was over there with her when the ex showed up. According to the post, the man did not come by to talk or stand in the yard yelling. He was outside actively trying to get into the house, shoving and kicking the door hard enough that there was no question about what he wanted.
The poster said he drew his gun right then, but not to go looking for the man outside. Instead, he rushed his mother to a back room and called 911. He made it clear in the thread that he never had to aim the gun at the ex because the man never actually made it inside. But from the way he told it, the pounding and force on the door were enough that he was not going to wait around unarmed and hope the door held if the next kick came harder.
He also said police took seven minutes to arrive. That detail did a lot of the work in the story, because it meant the whole time the ex was trying to get in, he was inside with his mother, armed, waiting to see whether the door would give before help got there. In his telling, those seven minutes did not sound short at all. They sounded like seven minutes of listening to someone on the other side of the house trying to force his way in while knowing exactly why your mother had fled him in the first place.
The man never made it through the door, and no shots were fired. But the poster said it was the first time he had ever had to draw, and he described it as a weird feeling afterward. The story was simple and ugly. His mother had escaped an abusive situation, moved back to her old house, and then the ex showed up trying to get inside while they were there. He drew, got her to a back room, called 911, and waited for police while the man stayed outside trying to break in.
What do you think — if somebody with a violent history was kicking and shoving at the door trying to get inside while your mom was in the house, would you stay put in a back room like he did, or move closer to the entry to be ready if the door gave?
Original Reddit post: Welp. Had to draw today. Kind of.
