And incidents like this are why I just roll my eyes at the "give up your guns, let the police protect you" dumbasses. Because the police don't have instant teleportation, and the time between my panicked call and them actually showing up is entirely too long when there are fuckheads with unknown intentions in my house, with my family. A loaded gun, however, is a pretty firm argument in favor of fucking off out of my home.

"But they only want to ban assault weapons, that's not a problem and you can still keep your other icky murder tools." Yeah, fuck that shit, because I've had a decade and a bit of watching exactly what happens when you obligingly give an inch to a someone who is incessantly trying to impose their ideas of how people should live their lives.

Plus, I've become a suspicious fucker as I age, and the more people insist that I shouldn't be armed, the less I trust their reasons for their insistence.