fully_armed_biker
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I was at The Armory gun shop in Virginia Beach on Sunday with my wife and friends of ours. Friday night (Early Saturday morning)their house was broken into in Newport News while they were sleeping. Ironically, my wife and I were there till about 1:00 in the morning playing pool with them Friday night, I was OC'ing while I was there and we discussed firearms and our right to defend ourselves while we were playing pool. Anyways...about 5:00 am they woke up to sounds downstairs, they don't have a house phone...they onlyhave their cell phones, which were left downstairs. They closed and locked their bedroom door and eventually the person left. Saturday night was my wife's work Christmas party and our friends were there (both the husband and wife are co-workers of my wife) and they told us about the incident and they asked me if I'd go with them Sunday to buy a gun for self defense. While we were looking, we were discussing what had happened and the person behind the counter was telling our friends that in Virginia, you have a duty to retreat. I informed him that he was wrong, in VA there is no duty to retreat...he tried to argue with me and I finally just told him to believe what he wanted to believe and I'll believe what I want to. I've seen it discussed out here dozens of times...I just wanted to make sure I was right in what I was saying, there is no duty to retreat in Virginia...right?
I was at The Armory gun shop in Virginia Beach on Sunday with my wife and friends of ours. Friday night (Early Saturday morning)their house was broken into in Newport News while they were sleeping. Ironically, my wife and I were there till about 1:00 in the morning playing pool with them Friday night, I was OC'ing while I was there and we discussed firearms and our right to defend ourselves while we were playing pool. Anyways...about 5:00 am they woke up to sounds downstairs, they don't have a house phone...they onlyhave their cell phones, which were left downstairs. They closed and locked their bedroom door and eventually the person left. Saturday night was my wife's work Christmas party and our friends were there (both the husband and wife are co-workers of my wife) and they told us about the incident and they asked me if I'd go with them Sunday to buy a gun for self defense. While we were looking, we were discussing what had happened and the person behind the counter was telling our friends that in Virginia, you have a duty to retreat. I informed him that he was wrong, in VA there is no duty to retreat...he tried to argue with me and I finally just told him to believe what he wanted to believe and I'll believe what I want to. I've seen it discussed out here dozens of times...I just wanted to make sure I was right in what I was saying, there is no duty to retreat in Virginia...right?