Mother shoots home intruder in the face and neck lives...
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From 2013, but still a interesting read.
The Loganville woman, who was not identified, was in the home with her 9-year-old twins on Friday afternoon when someone began ringing the doorbell.
Thinking it was just a door-to-door salesperson, she didn't answer.
But after the ringing persisted, the person began prying the door open with a crowbar.
She quickly retreated to an attic crawlspace with the children, but not before she also picked up her handgun.
The burglar, whom police identified as Paul Ali Slater, did a room-by-room search of the home, and when he reached the attic, she was ready.
Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman told WSBTV: 'The perpetrator opens that door. Of course, at that time he’s staring at her, her two children and a .38 revolver.'
She reportedly fired all six rounds, missing only once. The other shots hit Slater about the face and neck.
Sheriff Chapman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'The guy’s face down, crying. The woman told him to stay down or she’d shoot again.'
Slater did eventually get up and managed to return to his vehicle that was parked outside the home, but his injuries left him unable to drive, and it wasn't long before he crashed into a wooded area.
He was found by sheriff's deputies, bleeding heavily in a driveway on the block.
Sheriff Chapman told the paper that he was pleading with his deputies, saying: 'I'm dying. Help me.'
He was carted off to Gwinnet Medical Center for treatment of the gunshot wounds, and he is expected to survive.
WSBTV reported that Slater has a long criminal history and was released from prison in August.
The woman's husband, Donnie Herman, is just glad his wife and kids are safe.
Mr Herman told WSBTV: 'My wife is a hero. She protected her kids. She did what she was supposed to do as a responsible, prepared gun owner.'
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He's lucky he survived that.
Of course, one of our current crop of anti's will feel compelled to come along and call the woman a murderer.
It really says a lot about how the left will side with obvious criminals...
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Follow-up ...
He spent 30 days in the hospital and now has limited use of one of his arms.
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/man-shot- ... wGDSjLMFM/
He rejected a plea deal.
He was sentenced to 20 years in jail, with 10 years being mandatory.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/burglar ... /242664493
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States with right-to-carry concealed handgun laws experience increases in violent crime
What America’s gun fanatics won’t tell you
If true, then the mother described in the OP must have had some seriously deficient firearm because it worked perfectly under her control.
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I remember when this happened. Doesn't matter how it turned out, liberals will always say she should have asked him nicely to leave first, and since she didn't give him that chance she's a murderer.
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Up close and personal (within 20 feet range) ... rubber bullets and beanbags can be just as lethal as a live ammunition. Inside a home, almost all firearm options are nearly identical in lethality.
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It's always easy to say what we would have done in a situation and I am thinking I would have just called the police to report an intruder and hold my gun at him threatening to shoot.
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Um, there are some "non-lethal" defensive tools: Bear repellant comes in a gel form projected up to 35 feet, but with the slower trajectory, learning to propel at a slight arc is something few people, at the moment of fear, would be able to accomplish. Now, if they would be able to hit their mark accurately (face and eyes), repellant is a great idea. Otherwise, most personal-safety advisers recommend ordinary pepper spray and wait the extra second or two for the opponent to advance and get a faceful of mean. Even electroshock weapons are limited in their range.
Sooo, unless you want to get into an on-the-ground tussle with a violent criminal, the best defense is a firearm. U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics survey research of incarcerated criminals suggests strongly that, even if the criminal possesses a firearm, too, they usually piss themselves and run at the sight of a "victim with a gun." Knowing this factoid, even an empty gun could have its benefits. But, when a victim needs to count on his or her choice of defense, choosing something that is clearly a failure in operation isn't the best idea.
Even a tiny .22-cal. pistol will look like a magnum to a scared criminal just wanting some easy cash.
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Watch what happens when regular people try to use handguns in self-defense
States with right-to-carry concealed handgun laws experience increases in violent crime
What America’s gun fanatics won’t tell you
True, but they will post pictures of convicted Black criminals in order to stoke the flames of racism & perpetuate the NRA (aka KKK) propaganda that guns are necessary to defend yourself from the evils of people with more melanin in their skin pigment.
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That is interesting because I am a liberal and I wont say that. Probably don't break into someones house with a crowbar if you don't want to risk them potentially lethally defending them-self.
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