These posts are based on our Good Guy with a Gun calendar. (Do you have yours yet?) Today’s post is essentially the same as the calendar version.

Just after midnight on a Sunday, a man carrying a handgun broke into a house in Ruskin.

The homeowner’s grown son lived there, and he had a gun of his own.

Someone called the sheriff’s office about twenty minutes past midnight to report the break-in. By the time deputies got to the house, the son had shot the burglar, and the burglar was dead of multiple gunshot wounds.

He was 46-year-old Tony Sei. Whatever he meant to do with that handgun, he chose to carry it into somebody else’s home in the middle of the night.

This is just about the whole story. The sheriff added some thoughts that demonstrate how much he “gets it”:

Imagine the fear of being awoken in the middle of the night to a stranger invading your home. This is every homeowner’s greatest fear: a dangerous and brazen individual breaking in, showing a complete disregard for the safety and security of others. Our thoughts are with this family as they recover from the trauma of this event.