Pepe wandered outside and sniffed nervously at a fierce-looking police dog. 
 
And didn't get shot.  Kudos.

Reed, dazed and still in his underwear, toted the rifle around his yard as squad cars arrived. Pepe wandered outside and sniffed nervously at a fierce-looking police dog.

Good Lord, if he was black we'd be reading an entirely different story. Like: then, for reasons unknown, the homeowner ran out into the yard and pointed a high powered assault rifle at officers, who had no choice but to shoot him 141 times in the back.

Coolfusis: Is this that thread where we're supposed to argue whether or not people should have guns when this guy didn't need one?


/pro-gun
//within reason

If he'd had a couple of M18A1s trip wired to the front door those thugs would have never infiltrated the perimeter. Basic home protection every new father should have but since our Second Amendment rights have been trampled we have to defend our families hand to hand.

Good for the dad. He is very, very lucky that he didn't get killed. Violent criminals being actively prusued by police on the ground and in helicopters are desperate.

"...an unfamiliar person at the foot of his bed, flashing gold teeth and white eyes that in the darkness seemed to float, as though unattached to a human face."

This is what happens when reporters try prose.

Spoon over Marin: "...an unfamiliar person at the foot of his bed, flashing gold teeth and white eyes that in the darkness seemed to float, as though unattached to a human face."

This is what happens when reporters try prose.

This is probably the last article that truly impressed me with the level of writing, but you have to pay for it. It was Time's cover story on catching the Unabomber in 1996.

Never Fark with the the parents of a newborn. Good on 'em for defending their daughter. Hope those guys never get out again. Arrested 43 times? What a farking joke.

I fear babies more than I fear guns....

Soto said he had told her that he expected to one day be tested as a father. But not so soon after the birth of their first child.

"He did good," she said. "He protected the family."

Looks like steak and BJ day is gonna come early for this new dad

The Stealth Hippopotamus: I fear babies more than I fear guns....

Guns make take your life, but babies will take --- YOUR FREEDOM!!

"We got guns." "I got a newborn." "We have a Hulk."

kronicfeld: "We got guns." "I got a newborn." "We have a Hulk."

[like]

Gecko Gingrich: [like]

#lol

"We got guns."

"I got a newborn."



Don't underestimate the utility of a baby in self-defense situations.

AverageAmericanGuy: Hopefully Reed and Soto get married so the little girl can grow up in a stable home with a loving mother and father and not in a broken home where she'll eventually find her way into trouble and a violent life of gangs and crime.

Why do you hate future strippers?

It sounds to me like he needlessly endangered himself by following armed men out and confronting them after the situation had defused.

That might be heroic under some circumstances, but not when your the father of a newborn.

/you're

Spoon over Marin: "...an unfamiliar person at the foot of his bed, flashing gold teeth and white eyes that in the darkness seemed to float, as though unattached to a human face."

This is what happens when reporters try prose.

Was it a dark and stormy night?

/commingled is a word?

Coolfusis: Is this that thread where we're supposed to argue whether or not people should have guns when this guy didn't need one?

No this is the thread where we argue whether or not summary capital punishment should apply in crimes where nobody was killed.

What annoys me is the news is written like a poor novel. "Reed and Soto were enjoying precious hours of slumber after an exhausting week filled with the duties of caring for a newborn. The family dog, a Chihuahua mix named Pepe, dozed alongside them."

"he first thing Reed recalls seeing was an unfamiliar person at the foot of his bed, flashing gold teeth and white eyes that in the darkness seemed to float, as though unattached to a human face."

Come on.. just report the news.

Oh wait.. Fark... alright.. I remember where I am now.

Coolfusis: Is this that thread where we're supposed to argue whether or not people should have guns when this guy didn't need one?


/pro-gun
//within reason

I've got guns and skateboards. Anyone who skates knows that skateboards double as weapons. (says the woman who sleeps with a loaded gun within her easy reach, but out of view, so she can at least try to defend her family if something bad happened)

/no one messes with my family without dire consequence
//and my sis and I ending up in jail again

Good, I was worried this wouldn't be hijacked into a gun-rights thread.

/phew
/also progun