A story about a recent home invasion here in Michigan illustrates what the ruling classes want the rest of us to do when burglars invade our homes:
Her husband was working when the woman saw two male suspects knocking on the front door of her home in the 800 block of West VW Avenue around 11:30 p.m. Saturday.
“Someone is pounding on my door and I have no idea why,” the woman told a Kalamazoo County dispatcher in recordings obtained by the Kalamazoo Gazette via the Freedom of Information Act.
The woman then told the dispatcher that two men were outside her home, where her four children were sleeping inside.
“It sounds like they’re trying to break in,” she said.
A few minutes later, the woman told the dispatcher that one of the men was inside her home. Police have identified the man as Christopher Allen Palmer.
The dispatcher then told her to lock herself in a room. But the woman said she was unable to do that. Moments later, she can be heard yelling, “Get out of my house!”
Police said Palmer looked at the woman, who was at the top of the stairs, and he began walking toward the stairs, prompting the woman to fire a shot that struck Palmer in the shoulder.
After a single gunshot is heard on the recording, the woman told the dispatcher that she had shot the alleged intruder.
Within minutes, Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s deputies were on scene and took both men into custody.
Well, good for her! (According to another article, they broke a window and then got inside.)
What I cannot fathom is the dispatcher telling her to lock herself in a room after she told them four children were present in the house. Surely the first responsibility of the “authorities” (assuming a dispatcher is that) should be to protect the kids, right? If the mom locked herself in a room, how could she protect the kids, and what sort of person would tell a mother to do such a thing?
You’d almost think the safety of the home invaders took precedent over the safety of a woman and her children whose home was being invaded on a Saturday night.