Originally Posted by intocarss (Post 455741)

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/m...unshots/nTnGR/

The Loganville mother of two assumed the knocks on her front door Friday afternoon were from a solicitor.

“Don’t answer,” she yelled to her 9-year-old twins playing downstairs.

When the visitor began repeatedly ringing the doorbell, she called her husband at work.

“Get the kids and hide,” he told his wife.

As he dialed 911, his 37-year-old spouse, who works from home, collected the children and hid with them in a crawlspace adjoining her office. By that time, the intruder had forced his way into the three-story residence on Henderson Ridge Drive with a crowbar, authorities said. He allegedly rummaged through the home, eventually working his way up to the attic office.

“He opens the closet door and finds himself staring down the barrel of a .38 revolver,” said Walton County Sheriff Joe Chapman, who relayed the woman’s narrative to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He asked that her name be withheld.

The woman fired six bullets, five of which hit Paul Ali Slater in the face and neck area, Chapman said. But Slater was still conscious.

“The guy’s face down, crying,” the sheriff said. The woman told him to stay down or she’d shoot again.

Slater, unaware that she had emptied her chamber, obliged as the mother and her children ran to a neighbor’s house.

The injured burglar eventually made it out of the home and into his car, driving away before deputies arrived on the scene. He didn’t get far.

“When you got five bullets in you, it makes you kind of disoriented,” Chapman told the AJC.

Deputies found Slater bleeding profusely in a neighbor’s driveway.

“I’m dying. Help me,” he told them, according to Chapman.

Slater was transported to Gwinnett Medical Center and is expected to survive, the sheriff said.

The Long Island native, who now lives in Gwinnett County, was released from the Gwinnett jail in late August after serving six months for simple battery and three counts of probation violation. Slater has six other arrests in Gwinnett dating back to 2008, according to jail records.

“My wife’s a hero,” the woman’s husband, Donnie Herman, told Channel 2 Action News in a brief statement. He did not respond to a request for comment from the AJC. “She protected her kids. She did what she was supposed to do.”

Chapman remarked that one of his deputies, impressed with the woman’s resolve, told the sheriff she had handled her first shooting better than he had.

“That mother’s instinct kicked in,” Chapman said. “You go after a mother’s kids and she’ll find herself capable of doing things she never thought she was capable of.”

Originally Posted by camcojb (Post 455763)

The big problem with gun stats is you don't see how many attack/murders are prevented because someone had a gun.
Just legally carrying and pulling it out has prevented countless attacks. Then you also have the below, which is the above story and one other story from the other side.

Scenario 1) A woman is home alone and hears knocking on the front door late at night. Moments later, she hears intruders breaking into her house. Not having a gun, she dutifully calls 911 and waits for help, trying to hide for her safety. The intruders find her, shoot her several times, and rob her home. No arrests have been made.

Scenario 2) A woman is home with her two kids. After someone repeatedly ringing the doorbell, she calls her husband at work, who tells her to hide with the two kids while he calls 911. The intruder forces his way in to the home with a crowbar, opens the door to the closet where the 3 were hiding, only to find himself face to face with a .38 - and gets shot 5 times. The suspect survives and is in custody. The woman and her kids are safe.

I'm sure most would choose the second scenario; those who don't, and perhaps don't agree with gun ownership in any form, would probably dismiss the second scenario as unlikely and improbable, and that the odds are against you actually defending yourself in such a manner.

There's only one problem:

Neither of these are hypothetical.

Both happened within 24 hours of today in the greater Atlanta area.

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http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/20...-fulton-county

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/m...unshots/nTnGR/

Originally Posted by Bucketlist2012 (Post 455812)

Large caliber, two in the chest, one in the head, and then hit the panic button to call the clean up crews....

Always be ready, just in case....Survivor criminals is not an option...:thumbsup:

Originally Posted by Bucketlist2012 (Post 456081)

California laws...First you get sued if you did not have a beware of dog sign...

Then you get sued because you had a sign and put one up because you knew your dog was dangerous

Originally Posted by GregWeld (Post 456086)

....... and because it wasn't printed in Chinese and Spanish....


:cheers: