- Date posted
- 2y
Venting
Hi everyone, I’m mostly just coming here to vent because I need somewhere to let out my emotions and hopefully I can find somebody else who has went through something similar. On Tuesday of this past week, my fiancé and I were in the kitchen making food and it started to get smoky. My fiancé opened the side door a little bit to let out the smoke and prevent the smoke alarms from going off. He didn’t realize the lock was broke and our dog got out. I walked out of the house to look for the dog, and a guy a few houses down said is this your dog? I said yes, and walked towards him (it was around 6:30 at night so it was mostly dark). I then heard him say “you came out just in time because I was about to shoot it”. At this point I’m standing by his yard and he tells me my dog ran down the road. I turn to go after her, and she comes back towards me. She was standing about 15 feet away from him at this time, and is just sniffing the ground by the road. He pulls out a black pistol and points it at her and at me (she was about 15 feet away from me as well, so it was obvious that it was pointed at me too and not just her because he had to move his arm to point it towards her). I said I was calling the cops and he said he didn’t care because he has his conceal carry license and can legally have the gun. So I call 911 while trying to catch my dog and he keeps saying “get your f***ing dog b****” and kept telling me his safety on his gun was off and that he was ready to shoot. I caught my dog and the cops showed up. They said it’s just his word against mine so there is nothing they can do. He admitted to them that he had the gun pointed at the dog, and said he overreacted, but obviously he wasn’t going to tell the cops he pointed it at me too. My dog is scared of other people, so I know she didn’t mess with him or his dog. When I take her to the dog park, she whines and yelps because she is scared of other dogs. Well anyways, my point to this post is that I’m now terrified to take my dog out because I’m scared he will see me and find out where I live. He didn’t see me leave my house or go into my house, so he doesn’t know which house is mine. My neighbor also told me she’s seen him driving down the road and slowing down in front of our houses (we live in a duplex) and trying to figure out which one I live in. My neighbor is schizophrenic and she often says stuff like this that isn’t true, but it has me terrified. I’ve had nightmares for years that somebody would hand me a pistol that was cocked and I would have no clue how to uncock it without shooting it. I think this stems from my ex brother in law living with my family and being afraid of him. This event has really affected me and I keep having nightmares about guns again, and even thinking that random people in the store and stuff have guns and then when I look at them again they obviously don’t have anything.