[JD]

My sister in the middle 1980’s was employed as a regional manager by a national company. As a result she moved often and at short notice. One year she was sent to St. Louis; she leased an apartment and had her household goods moved there while she was closing down her office in Indiana. She got home to her new apartment at about 11:30 on a Monday night. The power was off, but she was tired and decided to make a pallet on the floor and get some sleep before taking care of business the next day. While she was settling in by flashlight, the front door was opened by someone with a key. She called out several times for the person to identify themselves, but they simply kept walking closer WITHOUT a light and being as quiet as they could while making their way through a living room crowded with boxes. She retreated down the hall towards the bedroom, the phones were dead and her cell phone at that time was not working in St.Louis, there was no way out of the apartment. She retrieved her 9mm S&W semi-auto, took a rest on the door frame to her bedroom and cycled the slide to load a round into the action. She then turned on her flashlight to target the intruder. The intruder was a security guard, who had no explanation for his not responding to her challenges, whose explanation for his presence in her apartment was that ‘he didn’t know it was rented.’ She broke her lease that night, received a check refunding her security deposit and first months rent at sun up that morning and moved into a different apartment complex that afternoon. Since then she has slept with a pistol close to hand and she keeps two other weapons in ready racks in her house. We firmly believe that if she had not had the pistol she would have been assaulted or killed. The fact that the apartment complex disgorged her deposit without a lawsuit and within a day of the incident is a backhanded indication of how serious they took the incident.

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Name : JD, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/American Indian, Religion : Unitarian, Age : 52, City : Wichita, State : KS, Country : United States, Occupation : Machinist, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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