12-18-2014, 01:10 PM
(12-18-2014, 12:02 PM)Duchess Wrote:
...we only hear about the instances where guns are used in an unlawful way.
That's only true if you don't read a variety of news sources.
I was gonna post this in the "Crimes Quashed by Citizens" or "Justified Shooting" thread, but I'll post it here instead.
From the Washington Times today:
A 14-year-old boy whose father was murdered six years ago says he was protecting his grandmother Tuesday after he fatally shot a man who was trying to break into his grandparents’ home in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Anthony Hernandez was visiting his grandparents, George and Anna Marie Wyant, when he said he heard a loud bang at the back of the house around 5:15 p.m. The suspect, 18-year-old Isai Delcid, was allegedly trying to break into a back window.
“Then I went and I got the gun,” Anthony told a local CBS affiliate. “I told the guy — and I said who is that, and the person hit [the window] again.”
“Then I said I have a gun, and they hit it another time. And they hit it again. I said stop and the guy broke through. And that’s when I shot,” he told WBT Radio in a telephone interview.
A few minutes later, Mrs. Wyant told a 911 operator what had happened.
“The man was breaking into the window,” she said in the call, the Charlotte Observer reported. “He was halfway in the window. My grandson told him to stop and get out of here, and he didn’t so my grandson shot him. … Somebody just broke in the house, and we shot him.”
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014...z3MGnxmWwr