Teen Shoots Home Intruder
A 14-year-old boy shot and killed a man who broke into his family’s home Monday and threatened to kill him and his mother, Police Chief Bryan Smith said.
Smith said the man, confronted a woman as she was carrying groceries into her home shortly before 1 p.m. The man forced her inside and tied her and her son up. Smith said the woman was able to loosen the binding and free her son, who got his father’s revolver from a security box beneath a bed.
As the man tried to break into the room where the two were and threatened to kill them both, the teen fired a shot through the door and hit the intruder in the head, Smith said.
The Instapundit had this to say:
Not only was this tragedy averted, but if the guy had gotten away with it he almost certainly would have killed others. Not now.
Private citizens use firearms over two million times a year to defend themselves. Of course the media doesn’t report that. They only report the evil done with firearms, not the evil averted.
Now that I have in effect my own Blog (thanks Rob) I’ll try to highlight defensive uses of firearms.
