From St Louis, Missouri;
A man shot and killed a suspect during an attempted home invasion Saturday in a suburb of St. Louis, officials said.
The St. Charles Police Department told FOX 2 they were called to an apartment complex around 5:45 p.m. after the suspect broke into the home while the man and two children were inside.
The homeowner then shot and killed the man, who has not yet been identified by police.
Lt. Chad Fisk with the St. Charles Police Department told FOX 2 the children were not injured in the incident.
From Houston, Texas;
Four teens broke into a woman’s home at the Park at North Vista Apartment complex in the 300 block of North Vista, according to Harris County Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman.
When the woman heard people inside her home, she opened fire, hitting one in the head. The wounded teen was flown to the hospital in critical condition, while the others fled and are still wanted, Herman said.
The woman is not facing any charges, but the case will be sent to a Harris County grand jury, which has become standard procedure in shootings.
From Youngstown, Ohio;
Police say at 6:15 p.m., they were called to the corner of Belmont Avenue and Wirt Boulevard and found a 19-year-old man shot.
An email sent to 21 News said the man was shot in the head.
It appears the man was attempting to commit a robbery and the robbery victim pulled out a gun, shooting him, according to police.
Police have not released the robbery suspect’s condition.
From Detroit, Michigan;
An off-duty Wayne County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed an armed man when he broke into her home in southwest Detroit, Detroit police said.
Police said the deputy was inside the home, on the 1400 block of Beatrice Street, when she heard the suspect kick in her door and enter at 1:30 a.m. Saturday.
The deputy told police she grabbed her weapon and fired shots at the male intruder, who was armed with a pistol and wearing a black ski mask, striking him in the chest and heart.
The intruder was pronounced dead at the scene.
2 perps DRT; 2 other perps shot in the head; the remaining perps on the run, presumably with brown-stained skivvies; and no armed citizens injured. Sounds like a good day indeed.
I’m thinking the same thing here !!!
My first thoughts were, WOW, good shooting !!!
And two of the good guys were gals.
I never discount a woman’s shooting ability.
I know too many who are deadly with their firearms.
Is it wrong that I enjoy reading the stories where the criminal gets killed?
It is a real feeling of justice done… especially when they are shot with their own gun
I notice that a reporter used the term “suspect” instead of “victim” in re: a bad guy betting shot.
Is it possible that reporters are coming to their senses? Or is that just a fluke?
Don’t these idiots know that everyone in Houston is packing heat these days? 🙂
“The Gun Is Civilization”
by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place here as a valid method of social interaction and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we’d be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger’s potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat – – it has no validity when most of a mugger’s potential targets are armed.
People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that’s the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there’s the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don’t constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level.
The gun is the only weapon that’s as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn’t work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn’t both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don’t do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I’m looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don’t carry it because I’m afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn’t limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation . . . and that’s why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.)
Semper Fi Sir, could not have said it better myself.
Oh, BRAVO!! I have not read that before. I love it! I MUST copy and save this for reference
The Youngstown story gets an update tomorrow morning.