The character kicked in a door and pistol whipped the owner on the block where Dad lived.

He would have been 80 this year and while he had guns in the house, it doesn't sound like he would have had time to get to them.

It has made me think about safety and carrying and all that a lot today.

It is easy to say what you will do when it happens to you, in theory. But in the heat of the moment, no one can accurately predict how they would react.

Random shit like this is very scary and humbling. Especially when it hits that close to home.