I (34M) reconnected with an old childhood friend of mine last year , little did I know what would occur a few days after getting reacquainted , shit was a drag . We smoked a little herb and talked about the good old days and had a good time I would say , he asked for a ride to another house and so I obliged and said what the heck . After that a few days later at 4 am I get a hard ass knocking on my door with so many doorbell rings .

Don’t ask me why I didn’t look outside first or have my firearm with me I’m an idiot for not having it on hand , but besides the fact I open the door thinking it’s a family member and it so happens to be my childhood friend barging threw the door . Mentally Distraught and having an obvious breakdown , he starts going on about where my gun is at “he wants me to shoot him” he goes on about how I’m white and if I do it the police won’t trip and proceeds to start making my house look like a struggle occurred . IM HALF ASLEEP AND I DONT HAVE MY GLASSES .

I try to de-escalate and say we can sit and talk , we can even sit in silence. He does not like that , goes to my kitchen and grabs a big ass micheal myers head ass knife the biggest fucking knife in my kitchen like cmon bro why????? I got doggies too and I will go to war over my dogs and he “threatened” to kill me and my dogs if I didn’t shoot him .

Would he have done it? I don’t know , but the last thing I need is a knife in my neck (I don’t have a fear of death but just of what happens next) and what if he hurt my dogs?? So I am in defense mode , adrenaline slowly building up until fight or flight kicks in.

I told him he’s gotta go he said nope and then lands a good slap on me because I had my eyes on his hand with the knife but after that I chose to fight and proceeded to beat the living dog shit out of em until the knife was out of the equation and dragged him out and threw him down the steps and called the cops . The police response was trash , but happy to say I look out of the window and have my gun on me now :). Still scared of doorbells tho.