Mother shoots intruder to protect infant.

[monkeybird]

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/04/mo...er-infant-son/

This is a great story about a young mother with the presents of mind to protect herself and her child. Her husband had died Christmas Day and she was alone with the infant when an intruder broke in.

[Karen]

That was less than 5 miles from my house. We've been having some bad stuff going on around here lately.

[miked2345]

The right to bear arms...... It's a beautiful thing!

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[brokedownbiker]

Good for her! Eighteen years old with a infant child.. and her husband died of cancer during Christmas, then she had to kill someone. That young lady is walking up a rough path, I hope she has people around her to help her through this trying time.

[xdpatriot]

Prayers for the young lady, I'm sure she's going through a rough time.

[Karen]

Good for her! Eighteen years old with a infant child.. and her husband died of cancer during Christmas, then she had to kill someone. That young lady is walking up a rough path, I hope she has people around her to help her through this trying time.

Yep, the community is being very supportive of her. There is an account set up at a bank in town for people who want to give her some financial support. This is a small town and I'm glad to see folks are banding together on this.

[MustangGal]

Some of the comments on the article are rather entertaining too!

You don't mess with country girls.

[Wendy]

It's too bad there wasn't enough time for perp #2 to walk through the door so she could get him too! Good for her! I don't think there are a lot of 18 year old with the clarity to do what she did as well as the courage!

[Matt In Oklahoma]

It's too bad there wasn't enough time for perp #2 to walk through the door so she could get him too! Good for her! I don't think there are a lot of 18 year old with the clarity to do what she did as well as the courage!

He ran down the street and called the cops because she shot his friend. Hardned thug, that one

[rockriver]

admin,
i'll put a few bucks into the kitty if we decide to send her a reward.
rr

[thedreamers]

The second guy is going to be charged with his friend death, its how the law works for what happened the news said. Would have been nice if she got both of them.

[Hidden Agenda]

I read this article earlier and thought, "Wow, this young woman has had so many life-altering experiences in so short a time". A new child, her husband's death, and the need to take a life in order to protect her own and her child's....I don't care who you are, or how tough you are, that is a lot of stress to be put through in such a short time frame. May God bless that young woman, and those in her community who are supporting her.

Let me also add, my personal thanks and respect goes out to whoever took the time to arm and train that young lady. They certainly saved her life.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

The second guy is going to be charged with his friend death, its how the law works for what happened the news said. Would have been nice if she got both of them.

Yep they charged him and then some ..... judge let him out on an ankle bracelet. I'm ashamed

[barfife]

This was sent to me by a friend about a similar instance in England back 1999. Makes for some interesting reading. Sorry about the formatting but it was cut and pasted from an email.


Subject: Could this happen in the USA?

You're sound asleep when you heara thump outside your bedroom door.

Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.

At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.

With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.

You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.

In the darkness, you make out two shadows.

One holds something that looks like a crowbar.

When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.

The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.

One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door

and lurches outside.

As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years

before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless..

Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you

that the second burglar has died.

They arrest you for First Degree Murder

and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.

When you talk to your attorney, he tells

you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.

"Only ten-to-twelve years,"

He replies, as if that's nothing.

"Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead

story in the local newspaper.

Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.

Their friends and relatives can't find

an unkind word to say about them..

Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times.

But the next day's headline says it all:

"Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."

The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters..

As the days wear on, the story takes wings.

The national media picks it up,

then the international media.

The surviving burglar

has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing

to sue you, and he'll probably win.

The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack

of effort in apprehending the suspects.

After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.

The District Attorney uses this to allege

that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial.

The charges haven't been reduced,

as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.

When you take the stand, your anger at

the injustice of it all works against you..

Prosecutors paint a picture of you

as a mean, vengeful man.

It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one burglar and wounded a second.

In April, 2000, he was convicted

and is now serving a life term.

How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire ?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.

This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license.

The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns.

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.

Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.

Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.

When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions.
(The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane, Scotland,
Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals.
Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.
Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.
The Dunblane Inquiry, a few
months later, sealed the fate of the
few sidearms
still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.
Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.
Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.

Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,
"We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."

All of Martin's neighbors
had been robbed numerous times,
and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs
who had no fear of the consequences.
Martin himself, a collector of antiques,
had seen most of his collection
trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended,
citizens who owned handguns
were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.

Being good British subjects,
most people obeyed the law.
The few who didn't were visited by police
and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.

Police later bragged that they'd taken
nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns?
The guns had been registered and licensed.
Kind of like cars. Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA!

THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

"...It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds..."

--Samuel Adams

If you think this is important,


please forward to everyone you know.

You had better wake up, because Obama isdoing this very same thing here in the U.S.A.,

if he can get it done.

And...there are people

in congress and on the street
who will go right along with him like sheep being led to slaughter.

And remember: When seconds count, the police are only minutes away...