I couldn’t help but laugh when I read this story in the Rocky Mountain News this morning. According to the article, an 85 year-old woman in Point Marion, PA managed to thwart a 17 year-old burglar by forcing the would-be burglar to call 911 on himself at gunpoint. The article describes the 17 year-old’s embarrassing predicament,
Smith heard someone break into her home Monday afternoon and grabbed the .22-caliber revolver she had been keeping by her bed since a neighbor’s home was burglarized a few weeks ago. “I said ‘What are you doing in my house?’ He just kept saying he didn’t do it,” Smith said.
This really is quite remarkable, while most 85 year-olds would probably have died of a heart attack at the site of an intruder in their house, this woman had the presence of mind to calmly walk into her bed room, grab her revolver and then make the thief call the police on himself. Thank God for the second amendment, truly one of the features that makes this country great.
Amidst the constant negative PR that guns recieve, its nice to see a story once in awhile about a law-abiding citizen making society safer as a result of excercising her right to own a gun.
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