Jon Wayne Taylor: RF Dead Wrong on Home Invasion Scenario

By Robert Farago

In your recent post Self-Defense Tip: Don’t Over-Penetrate a Room, you laid out a couple of scenarios. One was that there was a non-moving person laying on the floor during a home invasion. The other scenario added your screaming daughter in another room that you could not see. Your response to both scenarios is the same, walk out of the house and wait for backup. I get that you also say that there are lots of variables and that each experience may vary. But I think the main point was; don’t over-commit. Don’t go into any room you don’t have to. But in both of those situations, you have to go into the room . . .

Someone lying on the floor while someone else screams in another room is hardly a rare occurence. In fact, I’m sure it happens here in the US many times a day. As both a soldier and as a medical care provider, both here in Texas as well as multiple times in other countries as a soldier, I have experienced the situations you have listed above, except that it wasn’t my child, it was someone else’s.

The reality is that in both situations, there may …read more

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