I Comtrolled My Gun...One Split Second Would Have Changed Everything
 

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By MikeSouth
June 3rd, 2015

I have been contemplating whether or not to write about this since Saturday morning when it happened. I decided that I have shared the details of my life here for more than ten years and that this is a detail that maybe others need to hear. However you come down on it it?s word for word exactly what happened.

My friend Melissa Wolfe called me Wednesday night to spend the night with her because she had a break in to her apartment and she was scared. I went and stayed the night. There were no further incidents, I went home.

She called me again Friday night to spend the night for the same reason, she was to leave town on Sunday to visit her boyfriend in texas (yes he knew I was staying and approved.) As always when I can I help my friends even if I don?t think they need to worry, I mean it?s really no skin off my teeth and if it makes her feel better it?s worth it.

As always I took my .45ACP had it by the bed when we went to bed.

Saturday AM at approx 6:15 I woke to a bang and the building shaking?my first thought was why is someone slamming a door that hard. Then I heard it again and realized it was at Melissa?s front door. I woke her and said call 9 1 1 NOW! She was on the phone quickly as I grabbed the .45 and went out the bedroom into the hallway?carefully. I could see the door was almost broken in..he was still trying. the only thing holding it was the four hotel type latches she installed top to bottom.

I moved into the hall doorway which is a little to the right of the front door and about 15 feet away. He hit the door again, I thought about shooting through the door but immediately dismissed that because the bullet could easily go through the door, him and into the adjacent apartment. Instead I crouched low in the doorway and waited. I had the hammer back and the gun aimed at where I expected the head to be.

The thing I noticed was that I was dead calm, no nervousness, no shaking no nothing, I announced ?If you come through that door I WILL kill you.? A few seconds later he hit the door again for the last time.

I heard a lot of commotion and realized that it was the police. They had caught him. I eased back the hammer and returned the .45 to the bed stand.

In the end the cops were on it, they got there within about 2 minutes of the 9 1 1 Call. had they not things could have been oh so different today.

There is no question that I would have killed him had he breached the door and come in.

I told my friend Frank, a cynical person about it and he laughed. He said ?Had you killed that scumbag you and Melissa would be ALL OVER the news for a month. You see Melissa was the ?Mansion Madame? here in Atlanta and of course I am a local pornographer. He suggested next time we might hold off on calling 9 1 1 and revive our careers. Now I know he is being humorous about it and I am happy with how it played out, I really don?t ever want to have to kill anyone.

But one split second could have made things so very different.

Cool story bra

Why does your friend live in The Bluff?

well ok then

Oh well Mike pulled a Ventzilla ;)

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Let me be the first to speak on behalf of all GFY and say we're all very happy that you're safe, not hurt and not in trouble.













































Also, we're very disappointed you didn't fuck her like a real man would have. :winkwink:

To get bwassmonkey's input...mention the perp's colour.

You should make a team with Vendzilla. Dont call it "fantastic 4"... Try something like "Tame 2" or "Trying 2 hard"

Mike the whole point of the .45 is that the bullet won't go though every wall in the house... like a 9 or 10mm....have one myself I got when apartment living and if you're the Atlanta pornographer, Atlanta is not doing well :2 cents: and thank god you are safe and didn't apply deadly force

I'll admit i'm pretty territorial when it comes to anyone breaking into my place too but why aim for the head? was he armed?

Who the hell breaks in at 6:15am, especially to a place that was JUST broken into? Just out of curiousity, did you see the person that was trying break in?

Quite an adrenaline rush I'm sure :2 cents:

great story :thumbsup

LOL she dont...she lives off of Holcomb bridge

Because I had no intention of wounding him. and I dont care if he was armed or not my warning was loud....he heard it...he continues through that door he is a threat.
I dont think of it as heroic or any such BS it just was what it was. Im glad it turned out how it did.

not till he was arrested and he was Indian for the record...as in from india.

seriously who does a noisy kick in at 6:15AM? Did the guy know her or was it random?

Ok .......

For a writer, your spelling and punctuation are terrible. Proper punctuation would make your story easier to read. $.02

Yeah but for a self aggrandizing, attention seeking jackass, he's right on point.

Who makes that kind of noise when breaking in ?

The fictitious burglar of a notoriously bad writer?

His writing skills are on par with his reporting skills.

A+ for consistency.

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Without any attempt to be stealthy whatsoever, and how the fuck do cops show up for a 911 call in less than 2 minutes?

So he is smashing the door and knows you are in there and keeps doing it?
The cops show up in 2 minutes? They would have to already been there for that to even be possible.
Seems legit but I guess why would someone even make a story like this up anyway so cool story brah

True... Good that the police booked him in and you didn't have to pull a trigger...

Oh ok... well... you should have just pulled the trigger... one less spammer out there...

You should take out a stopwatch sometime; 2 minutes is pretty reasonable, unless you live in the sticks perhaps.

As for cops in 2 minutes - why not if they were patrolling somewhere not far away?

I have a feeling the average GFYer has no idea how long that really is without a clock to show them.

Of course, South, with his adrenaline rush probably had no concept of time either.

Ditto. Especially the "bra" part.

Glad nobody died and you're safe but why not just shoot him in the leg? When ever I hear someone got shot in the face I always think about dumb and dumber.

https://youtu.be/ofQ6i9I1IYY

The question is if Melissa was wearing a bra?

cool story bro..

But you never fucked her?? Did you at least get the "hero BJ"?

You missed out: "The gods gave men two gifts to entertain ourselves before we die-- the thrill of fucking a woman who wants to be fucked and the thrill of killing a man who wants to kill you."

In police terms - 2 minutes is roughly the time a Krispy Kreme donut travels on the oven conveyor belt.

You really watch too much TV. Have you ever been to a firing range? Were there silhouettes that included legs?

You so funny

I'm glad things went that way and you are a pretty brave dude.

And yes you may have killed him, or you may have got a bullet or 2 into him while he charged you and got your gun away from you - this is actually the far more likely scenario statistically.

Thats the NRA's dirtiest little secret and the fact they try to suppress the hardest: Gun owners are far FAR more likely to be killed by an intruder who has taken their gun away from them than they are to successfully defend themselves.

So did you get to have sex with her?

By the second paragraph I was bored. Cliff notes?

The head is hard to hit as fuck. Just a hint for those that never fired on anything alive, aim for that big ass center mass called the chest :)

I am happy for you that you did not have to shoot him.

I stopped reading after you tried namedropping.

I was an MP in the military and have been to a range 100's of times.

Oddly the ardenalyn didnt kick in till after I was scary calm her apt is in a high traffic area near GA400 and holcomb bridge so they were likely in the area and she told 911 I had a gun...when the cops got there Melissa was still on the phone with 9 1 1. Is it possible a neighbor called them as well before we did sure but they didnt mention that

all in all it was just one of those things that happens to people in life and i figured if anyone gets anything out of it its worth telling.

to me it illustrates how a single stroke of the governors pen could change me from being in control of my destiny at that point to cowering in a closet hoping someone comes in time.

Rest assured I hit him with a .45 even if he is wearing a bullet proof vest it will completely knock him off his feet. I shoot at least weekly at the range I consider that a responsibility for having a concealed carry permit.

Three rules for me
1 treat every gun as if it is loaded
2 never point your gun at anything you do not intend to kill
3 once you point it never hesitate to pull the trigger

And they trained you to shoot for the legs?

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