Thread by @VekaFitzfrancis

Rant Warning: when to shoot

Okay kiddos and jackasses calling me a child murderer, let's get down to brass tacks.

I have been in a situation where I have pulled a gun on another human being. I wasn't mad at the time, I was scared so bad I wet myself.

I was home alone in Florida. It was dusk. My window was open except for the screen. My stalker was using a effing bowie knife to crave hole to get into my room while I should have been watching tv in the other room.

I had seen that episode and went back to my room for a book.

The bastard had a restraining order against him because earlier that month he punched my jaw so hard I couldn't eat solid food for two weeks. All because I was talking to someone he didn't like.

Did I mention that before that attack he had never even spoken to me before?

He thought he was my boyfriend. He told people we fucked like bunnies behind the bleachers of my high school.

I had a school official tell me I should have not provoked my boyfriend and that people with my reputation should expect people to disbelieve me.

After a great deal of telling off of said school official my folks got a restraining order. That, sadly, gave my stalker our home address.

My father, wisely, didn't put his trust solely in a piece of paper, but made sure I knew where his rifle was.

So when I found the prick who cold clocked me trying to get into my bedroom I went straight for the rifle and I pointed it at his head.

I did not, however, pull the trigger.

You see, I had been misinformed about the castle doctrine.

I thought my would be rapist had to be inside the home. I was afraid if I shot him and he fell backwards, out of my window, I would go to jail for murder.

So when he saw the gun, and realized I fully meant to pull the trigger, the coward left.

He went on to rape 4 more women over the past 20 years, the last one he 'accidentally' killed in the process.

I've met two of his victims. They know my story and they both had the same question for me.

'Why didn't you pull the trigger?'

You want to know what keeps me awake at night? What I think about in those bleak dark moments?

It's not that some asshat that the FBI drops the ball on is going to shoot up a school.

No, I have to live with 'why didn't you pull the trigger?'

So understand when I say I will defend with my life your constitutional right to speak your mind and make an ass of yourself, I'm also going to defend with my life your right to protect yourself against a tyrannical government AND government ineffectiveness.