Okay SMEs, what should this woman have done?

[TCinVA]

And now that she has been beaten half to death, but survived, how long under New Jersey law will it take her to obtain a handgun in the event he decides to come back and finish the job? I'm sure they have some sort of waiting period and other intentional red tape.

When I lived there getting a handgun purchase approval took months. My 8th grade science teacher bought a .44 magnum for an Alaskan hunting trip and it took him 6 months to get approval to buy it.

[NEPAKevin]

read this story of an untrained, young German Shepherd saving the day.

My favorite, a story with a happy ending.

[TGS]

And now that she has been beaten half to death, but survived, how long under New Jersey law will it take her to obtain a handgun in the event he decides to come back and finish the job? I'm sure they have some sort of waiting period and other intentional red tape.

There's no waiting period, but you do have to submit for a purchase permit. For long guns, it's good for life. I can go buy an AR15, shotgun, ect whenever I want and be out the door as quick as NICS comes back.

For pistols, you have to obtain a purchase permit for each pistol. Here in Trenton where the cops are fairly pro-good guy, shoot-the-bad-guys-for-us, this took me 3 weeks......Where BaiHu lives, the cops seem to be equally good at getting it processed. Some places are horror stories though, as the permit process is abused by overzealous government officials who use it as a defacto ban on guns, taking a good 9 months to process a pistol permit.

Or, you could just find a union shop member with an Italian surname and have whatever you need in an hour or two.

[rob_s]

I am a single dude that lives alone, but if I ever find myself in the provider role with family members at home that cannot (or will not) defend themselves again I cannot imagine any other choice than shelling out the cash for a trained guard dog. I have several friends that have them and the dogs behave as members of the family every day just as any other dog (although better behaved overall) so I would not have any concern about the dog turning on the family. Even if the dog winds up sacrificing itself for the humans to escape, that's better than a wife or child being the brunt of this kind of thing.

[TCinVA]

I am a single dude that lives alone, but if I ever find myself in the provider role with family members at home that cannot (or will not) defend themselves again I cannot imagine any other choice than shelling out the cash for a trained guard dog. I have several friends that have them and the dogs behave as members of the family every day just as any other dog (although better behaved overall) so I would not have any concern about the dog turning on the family. Even if the dog winds up sacrificing itself for the humans to escape, that's better than a wife or child being the brunt of this kind of thing.

The video would have been significantly better had Mr. Home invader quickly become a chewtoy for a Belgian Mal.

[Coyotesfan97]

It's nice knowing when I go to work a retired Belgian Malinois stays at home with the family.


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[Tamara]

This happened 2 towns east of me in a very upscale neighborhood. The owner of AZ Iced Tea lived nearby this incident (dunno if he's still there) for example.

Upscale neighborhoods tend to have spacious lots with the houses arranged and lawns landscaped so the front doors have a measure of privacy from the neighbors. Additionally, the prevalence of two-income families in suburbia mean that neighborhoods like this are ghost towns from 9-5 on weekdays.

In Caleb's old stomping grounds here in Hoosieropolis, there were subdivisions where multiple front doors were getting kicked in in one day by crooks who could be fairly certain nobody would be home. Would they have reacted like this to intimidate an unexpected witness found during their "work shift"? Dunno.

[hufnagel]

BaiHu is apparently very close to me, as Milburn is about 10 miles from me.

[jetfire]

In Caleb's old stomping grounds here in Hoosieropolis, there were subdivisions where multiple front doors were getting kicked in in one day by crooks who could be fairly certain nobody would be home. Would they have reacted like this to intimidate an unexpected witness found during their "work shift"? Dunno.

Man, I remember the Great Fishers Home Invasion Scare. Good times.

[LittleLebowski]

It's nice knowing when I go to work a retired Belgian Malinois stays at home with the family.

Any thoughts on this from your perspective as a street cop?