Breaking News: Don’t Bring a Sledgehammer to a Gun Fight

By John Falkenberg

SPOKANE, WA — When one homeowner found a stranger making an enormous scene at his front door, he soon found himself in the fight of his life.

Fortunately, his firearm trumped the insane man’s sledgehammer.

As KREM2 reports:

A homeowner shot a man who he said was kicking and screaming at his front door early Tuesday morning. Ralph Wending told deputies a man had grabbed a sledgehammer from a truck and came at him with the hammer. Court documents said Wending warned the suspect he had a gun and fired a warning shot. He said the suspect continued to come at him in a violent manner so he shot him in the leg.

Court documents identified the suspect as Logan Nelson.

There are two issues with this incident, in terms of the homeowner’s behavior. Let’s take a look:

1. We have said so many times before, and we’ll say it again — do not fire off a warning shot.

Warning shots are not only a poor tactical behavior, unless they’re aimed directly at the ground, they are a threat to pasersby in an enormous radius around you. Don’t count on your house to stop the round — it doesn’t always work that way.

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Source:: Concealed Nation