I Was Glad I Had a Gun When a Man Broke Into My House – HotAir

Here’s something you don’t see every day, at least not in the pages of the Washington Post. The Post published an opinion piece by a former staff writer describing a night last year when a complete stranger entered his home in Washington, DC in the middle of the night. Not sure what was happening, author Frederick Kunkle unlocked his legally owned gun and confronted the intruder.

In late April, I was asleep in my house in the District — my spouse was on a business trip — when I opened my eyes and saw an intruder coming to the top of the stairs outside the bedroom. It was about 2:35 a.m. He passed the bedroom door and headed down the hallway.

“Hey!” I yelled. “What the hell are you doing!”…

I called 911. While a dispatcher assured me police were on their way, I heard the guy rummaging in the kitchen — whether to find an exit or arm himself with a knife, I had no…