Convincing someone to carry- real world example

I see a lot of posts on this sub about how you convince your mother/girlfriend/sister/friend whomever to carry. I wanted to share a story about a good friend's experience.About three weeks ago my friend (we'll call her Melissa) was having dinner with several other female friends. While they were sitting down eating, a male walked over and tried to buy them drinks. They weren't interested and were just having dinner. After dinner, my friend leaves and heads home where she lives alone. A little background, she lives in an upper class neighborhood. One of those "it could never happen here" neighborhoods. Around 11:30pm that evening, the man from the restaurant shows up at her house and says that his mother lives down the street and that he needs help. Melissa doesn't open the door and sends him away. Yes, she should have called 911 at this point. Coulda shoulda woulda, but she didn't and went to bed. At 3:30am, Melissa heard someone outside at the front door. Heading downstairs, she can hear and see that someone is making their way around her house. The same man from the restaurant is back and trying to break into her garage. At this point, she calls 911. In the 4 minutes it takes the police to arrive, the man makes his way to her back door and trying to break in that way. Luckily the police arrive and take him down and into custody. He is charged with several misdemeanors.Fast forward to court yesterday. While Melissa is waiting in the lobby for the trial to start, the guy who tried to break in is brazen enough to approach her and say this is all a misunderstanding. He was so belligerent he had to be detained once again. Because of his actions, a felony burglary is tacked on to his charges and he is heading to criminal court.However- he is out until his court date. If he was willing to approach her while awaiting his trial in front of police, who knows what he would do in the middle of the night. Melissa has gone, in 24 hours, from saying that guns are bad to "oh my gosh can you please help me learn how to shoot and defend myself etc".The tl;dr is that you never know what could happen. We all have to be our own first responders. Stay safe out there! via /r/CCW http://ift.tt/2slmdzu