One clean-cut looking bad guy rang my doorbell in the middle of the night; in both cases at my house it was between 1 and 130am. Meanwhile, his buddies are either A) breaking into your house on the other side B) Crouching or laying down to either side of the front door to rush you when you open it. Instead of going to the front door, I assumed an elevated vantage point where I could see them. I could also see one of his buddies at the side window of my living room. That's the one my dog kept pointing out.
I called 911, then told them to freeze and wait for the cops while I had my SKS trained in their direction. Deciding that, even with Kentucky's castle doctrine, I wasn't willing to shoot someone while they were still outside of the house, I held my fire when they ran.
Now...if they had actually damaged the door/windows, thus proving they were actively trying to break in...
Actually, there was a guy in Lexington who DID fire through his front door last year, killing someone. The alleged bad guy was a drunk college kid who was pounding on the door at 2am because he had the wrong house. No charges were filed, but I personally don't consider it a justified shooting. I wouldn't want to take someone's life unless they were already in or working their way in to my hacienda. .
Anyway, all's well that ends well. I just wanted to share my experience and alert the rest of you, in case the use of this trend starts to spread to other parts of the country.
