What would you do if a friend/sibling called and threatened your life?

Talk to my/their family and try to see what's going on.

Call police and have them confront the threater

kill them first

I'm trying to imagine phi calling and threatening to shoot me. Nope, it's just not working...

If anyone tells me their going to kill me with a gun and I truly believe they mean it, calling the police seems like the best thing to do.

My friends would know better than to warn me.

Odd thing is that I can imagine a few friends who I would truly believe if they did this.

Beat 'em to it.

The police have to be the first recourse, but even though I'm British (firearms are illegal) and female I feel very strongly that I would have to take full measures to ensure my protection (the police here would never be able to afford me full protection) so yes, I would get a gun if I felt threatened; and I would make sure I knew how to use it better than the person who was threatening me. Nobody should deny you the right to defend yourself. I don't know whether it reached the US news; but I am fully behind the Tony Martins self-defence case, even though the home invaders were not armed. If someone broke into my house who I thought was going to try to hurt or kill me, I think I would have to kill them pre-emptively, not wait and see!

I really can't imagine this happening, but if anyone threatened my life, I would call the police.

It depends on whether I thought they were serious. If I did, I'd call the cops.

I'd call the police and then get my child to a safe place where she would not be at risk of getting caught in this kind of a dispute. I'd also load my gun and wear it on my body....

I don't know. Something like this has happened to me before and we just got our gun out and waited. Nothing did happen though.

if i thought they were serious in the threat, i would let the authorities know, i guess

invite them over...and as they pull into the driveway..i'd snipe 'em with a high-powered rifle..muhahaha

I'd laugh my ass off because it would obviously be a joke! If someone actually seemed serious, I guess I'd load my gun and be prepared to defend myself.

Are you saying that you think you'd be able to get a gun even though they're illegal there?

since when does something's legality have anything to do with whether or not peeps can get a hold of it

Funny you should ask.............

No, I was speaking purely hypothetically- but then it's highly unlikely that they'd have a gun either, so I guess we'd be talking more commonly about knives in the UK. And for your peace of mind; I never felt the need carry one, despite the the kind of school I went to. It's just, post discussion over Tony Martins, something I feel quite strongly about...

Beachy...actually you'd be talking about broken bottles.....not knives

No-one I knew at school ever carried a broken bottle around with them.

mandy & Beachy - I was just curious because so many people use the UK as an example when they talk about outlawing guns in the US. I worry that criminals who really wanted guns would still be able to get them, even if they were illegal, so I wondered if that was the case there.

Laugh in their face and dare them to kill me.

lol
No one would threaten me. I am well loved. Plus I'm buff and intimidating ;)

I'd call them first & try to find out why they are threatening me & try to work things out. If that didn't work, I'd call the police & make certain I'm well barricaded within my home.