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May 27, 2006
If guns were outlawed
this family would likely be dead:
It was 3:30 a.m.
Granger woke with a start, hearing his mother's frantic voice and something slamming against the front window.
He ran out to the dark living room and saw his mother screaming as a man, cursing and muttering, threw a bicycle at the window.
Granger yelled at the intruder to leave, while his mother called his father on the phone and handed it to her son. The stranger began turning the doorknob, intent on getting in the home.
Within seconds, Granger ran into his parents' bedroom, found the safety box, unlocked it and loaded two guns for him and his mother. He ran back to the living room as the intruder threw a bicycle at the door and started kicking it in.
His mother was too shaken to take a gun, so she ran to another bedroom where her daughters and visiting family members were hiding.
"I was real scared and nervous, but I knew I had to stay focused on what I had to do because my mom and the kids were there," Granger said.
The next moment the man kicked down the door and jumped into the living room, yards from Granger.
"I didn't want to hurt anybody, so I fired off a warning shot," the ninth-grader said.
The intruder didn't leave until four shots later.
Good on ya Javaris. You are a real hero.
Posted by LindaSoG at May 27, 2006 04:49 PM
Comments
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Thomas Jefferson
Also, "Self defense is Nature's eldest law." Not sure who said that, but I know it's been around a long time. Probably could be attributed safely to anybody from Aristotle to Reagan.
Posted by: babalu at May 27, 2006 07:28 PM
I know this kid is only in ninth grade, but I don't think a warning shot would have been on my mind. Someone breaking down a door at my house is going to be ventilated, by me or the wife unit, or both.
The kid had no obligation to withhold deadly force. It was the perps actions that brought on use of a firearm. Thank heavens he had one handy.
Posted by: Elvis at May 28, 2006 02:01 AM
Thanks for the quote babalu.
FMCDH!
Posted by: LindaSoG at May 30, 2006 10:52 PM
I agree Elvis, a warning shot was not necessary, and thank goodness the perp was slow enough for the warning shot.
Posted by: LindaSoG at May 30, 2006 10:54 PM