The "gun" they used was actually an airgun, and their other weapon was a baseball bat that one source says they found in the yard. Sad to think how easily they could have been overcome had anyone in the house had access to a firearm.
I know I am preaching to the pastor, the choir and the pianist, but those unfortunate people might possibly could have had a multitude of firearms within close reach, it was not a lack of access to guns that led to their demise.
It was more than anything else,
First, the paucity of ability to quickly grasp what was happening, a lack of focus on what the most likely end results would be if left uninterrupted, and the lack of cognitive skills to find solutions to disrupt the desired end results of the perpetrators.
Second, they did not have the intestinal fortitude to fight, or did not muster this will until it was too late (see #1 above), if at all.
Third, they did not have access to those tools
or skills associated with those tools to repel those animals.
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If you (anyone reading this) had to choose only one of these four things, which would you rather have?
1. Ability to quickly make good/accurate threat assessments
2. The will to fight, to win
3. The tactics and skills to win a fight
4. The tools.
If you could only have two, which two?
If you needed to leave home without one, which one?
See you all in another couple of years.
NYC Drew.