crazy day

wow.. first I appluade your decision to help a neighbor out. BUT... that was handled alll wrong !!! As much as we think we are vigilante it is incorrect to hold someone at gunpoint for stealing what.... cd's? sunglasses ? maybe a radio ? Perhaps even a vehicle. Come on... First... you put yourself in danger. What if the dude didnt care you had a gun and he did.... and shot you ? Happens. You might have got a blast off, but then what ? Arrrg... I can go on and on about this. Here is the rule of weaponry and if you take criminal courses or even a CWP course you will find its states DONT PULL YOUR WEAPON UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO USE IT. Simple. Now... the dude that was stealing/breaking into... knows where you live, knows who you are, and trust me... he has friends. Now (in my opinion) you just jeopardized yourself. My thoughts are..... What did the cops say when they pulled up and saw you holding a dude at gunpoint ?? Did they take your weapon ? Did you call the cops and tell them you were holding a guy at gunpoint ? Sometimes a good idea turns bad. I think that if you had time to get your gun you had time to get a good description of the dude and maybe scare them off. Ya... they might get away with it... but it sure would ease my mind.

ok ok.. im done.... When you take the courses of Criminal justice... you will see that the situation can and should have been dealt differently.

however, that being said... we do apreciate people like you who will still watch out for neighbors.

best of luck.

-RPM