I�m betting you open carry....

Dont even have LTC.

Do you have anymore uneducated comments?

You just dont seem to get it. The guy would not have been shot because of what the girl told me, he would have been shot for over stepping his boundaries on my property. If he dont like it, too bad. Keep up with your 9 year old girl. I can guarantee I would handle it the same way. If you would have let the guy grab or assault your wife on your porch and watch someone you dont know from Adam, walk away with a little girl that's begging you for help and you do nothing, well that's your decision.

Yup....had nothing to do with what she said....everything to do with HIS behavior.....I’d do the same......

No way in hell he was getting to her before the cops got there. He shouldn't have left his 9 year old daughter alone or with someone that wasn't capable of watching her, whatever the case was, she walked twice around our loop before coming to my house. There was a guy that got mauled by two pitbulls at the end of my street a year ago. Adult male spent over 30 days in hospital. The people that still live there are drug dealing trash, what if she went to there house?

Keep anyones child from them with a gun and see how many act cool headed and rationally.

You need to move

It's not as bad as it sounds. We have bad places down the street but our actual street is nice and all the neighbors are great and watch out for each other. As you get down the street (away from waterfront) the lots are cheaper so there is lower income people living there. I love my house and love living on the water, slowly but surely Henderson County Sheriffs dept. is getting it cleaned up. I'm not going to let trash run me out of my home.

I see you deleted you last post.

I did delete it, my opinion in how you handled yourself differs and no point in arguing with anyone on the internet over differences.
In the end I think you had the girls best interest in mind so thanks for stepping up when a lot these days wouldn't...

Uneducated comment? Nah, just opinions.....

I have been in a similar situation only it was an adult woman with a history and evidence of abuse, not an easy decision to intervene. In the midst of it all I think you had the best intentions, I just don't agree with your handling of it, obviously I am the minority.
Over dinner tonight was talking with a friend who was a social worker for Arlington then went to work for the Army working with the soldiers and was a survivor of the Ft Hood shooting. She agrees with what I had said, kids will say and fabricate all kinds of stories when mad at a family member. Had one girl who was a step daughter who fabricated an elaborate story of physical and sexual abuse of her moms new husband because she didn't like him. He lost his job, spent thousands on lawyers only to have the girl admit it in front of the judge she lied. That was all I was saying, to automatically take this little girls word for it to the point of willing to murder her father in front of her was a little much. Abusive or not that is her dad she watched someone kill, you don't get over that [censored]. Now if the kid came running from the house bloody, half naked, with obvious signs of abuse draw down, 100000%. Without evidence and obvious signs of abuse this situation ends up being a social issue, not criminal, exact reason the police did nothing and referred you to call CPS.

I agree. I know of a kid as well that would make up stories about their parents just for the attention of it. The dad might've been mad but most folks would be if a stranger had their child and wouldn't let them go

1: Child shows up asking for help.
2: LEO's were called.
3: He didn't pull a gun on anyone.
4: Irate parent or not, kid is staying until LEO arrives.

I know CCL very well, lots of dirtbags living in close proximity to $500k homes. Irate parent will just have to suck it up and wait for cops, that was already set in motion when an unattended child showed up asking for help from abusive adults. Irate parent needs to keep his cool while trespassing. Kids do make up stories, but that is for someone else to determine. We all read about kids getting beat to death on a regular basis by their parents/relatives/steps. I think he handled it pretty good for a bad situation.

Well articulated.....

Well articulated.....