Is this a happy gun story or what?

Question

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca … i-news-hed
A woman shot and killed a rifle-toting teenager who burst into her home late Friday night in Zion, police said.
The intruder was identified as Gerrell N. Davis, 16, of Zion, Police Chief Doug Malcolm said Saturday. Clad in a black ski mask and gloves, Davis forced open the back door of a home in the 1700 block of Jethro Avenue, Malcolm said. This was shortly after the couple in the house heard a knock at the front door and asked who was there but didn't open the door.
The 55-year-old wife heard the doorjamb shatter, grabbed a 9 mm handgun from her bedroom and ran to the kitchen, Malcolm said.
She fired twice and both rounds struck Davis, who was found by police on the kitchen floor still wearing the mask, Malcolm said.
"It's a terrible situation when it involves kids like this, but these were two middle-aged people sitting in their house and someone came in with a loaded rifle," Malcolm said.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Answer 1

Score: Citizens 1, Scumbags 0

Answer 2

"With the right equipment, even amateurs can get professional results."

Good for the home owners! Some guy breaking into your house while holding a rifle isn't looking for his lost puppy for Pete's sake. This story needs to get out. If criminals realize that good folk are able to protect themselves, they might think twice before committing a crime.

God bless America.

Answer 3

"he who lives by the sword dies by the guy who owns
the gun"
Right to bear arms, LOVE it OR Leave it...Oh, and move to
Stockton, CA or LA, CA and let me see you not use you right to keep and
bear arms.
The story is sad, but there are a hundred others where Honest citizens are unarmed and the ending is not so pretty. Education is the key. My daughter is 4 and knows basic gun safety. Don't teach your kids and see how they come out at 13 and 14 years old!

Answer 4

If you do not break into my home, I will not shoot you.
As far as Guelph and Generic Brand are concerned, I hope no one ever breaks into your home and tries to harm you or your family, because it does not sound like you are prepared to defend yourselves.
There probably has never been a time in history where a gun for self preservation is more necessary than today!!!

Answer 5

This is for the idiot that says defense isn't what the Founding Father had in mind.

Here are quotes of our Fathers on the 2nd Amendment:

Thomas Jefferson: "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined or determined to commit crimes. Such laws only make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assassins; they serve to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." (1764 Letter and speech from T. Jefferson quoting with approval an essay by Cesare Beccari)

John Adams: "Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense." (A defense of the Constitution of the US)

George Washington: "Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the people's liberty teeth (and) keystone... the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable... more than 99% of them [guns] by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference [crime]. When firearms go, all goes, we need them every hour." (Address to 1st session of Congress)

George Mason: "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." (3 Elliot, Debates at 380)

Noah Webster: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe." (1787, Pamphlets on the Constitution of the US)

George Washington: "A free people ought to be armed." (Jan 14 1790, Boston Independent Chronicle.)

Thomas Jefferson: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." (T. Jefferson papers, 334, C.J. Boyd, Ed. 1950)

James Madison: "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose people are afraid to trust them with arms." (Federalist Paper #46)

WHAT THE FOUNDING FATHERS MEANT BY
THE "MILITIA"

George Mason: "I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people." (Elliott, Debates, 425-426)

Richard Henry Lee: "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms." (Additional letters from the Federal Farmer, at 169, 1788)

James Madison: "A WELL REGULATED militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country." (1st Annals of Congress, at 434, June 8th 1789, emphasis added.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Back in the 18th century, a "regular" army meant an army that had standard military equipment. So a "well regulated" army was simply one that was "well equipped." It does NOT refer to a professional army. The 17th century folks used the term "STANDING Army" to describe a professional army. THEREFORE, "a well regulated militia" only means a well equipped militia. It does not imply the modern meaning of "regulated," which means controlled or administered by some superior entity. Federal control over the militia comes from other parts of the Constitution, but not from the second amendment.

Patrick Henry: "The people have a right to keep and bear arms." (Elliott, Debates at 185)

Alexander Hamilton: "...that a standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens, little if at all inferior to them in the use of arms."


"Little more can be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped." {responding to the claim that the militia itself could threaten liberty}

"There is something so far-fetched, and so extravagant in the idea of danger of liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether to treat it with gravity or raillery (mockery). (Federalist Paper #29)

Answer 6

I love it, if he is underage the parents should be sued for emotional distress for all they have.


Could you anti-gun folks give me your home address. I want to become a robber, but hate the idea of getting shot.

Answer 7

Gun control is being able to hit your target! Score another one for the good guys.

Answer 8

Huh. My aunt and her family lives in Zion.

Funny I haven't heard about it.

Answer 9

This is a perfect example of why we NEED our right to keep and bear arms!

Answer 10

he who lives by the sword dies by the sword
what a fitting tribute to someone who would make his living(?) by such means.