{"id":60730,"date":"2015-07-05T14:47:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T18:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60730"},"modified":"2015-07-05T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T18:49:22","slug":"susan-gonzalez-and-the-case-for-gun-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60730","title":{"rendered":"Susan Gonzalez and the case for gun ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Coast News<\/a> tells the story of Susan Gonzalez and her experience 18 years ago when she went to open the door when she thought her son was trying to get in – instead the door was ripped from it’s hinges and two men forced their way in to the house. While she fled her attackers, Gonzalez was shot. While she lay on the floor bleeding, her husband was shot while he struggled with the attackers. Susan recognized an opportunity to get her husband’s gun and she brought it bear on the situation and shot one of the attackers in the back. They both ran outside, but one didn’t get far before he collapsed from his wounds;<\/p>\n

“A lot of people are against guns because they say guns kill, ” said Gonzalez. “Guns saved my life and I was against guns. I now carry.”<\/p>\n

She has a concealed weapons permit and said she practices on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

“What happened to us, I would never in a million years would have dreamed it would happen to us,’ she said.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

“I can only hope that another woman or even man will take a look and realize there’s a reason to have guns for safety,” she said.<\/p>\n

She said many have criticized her for shooting the suspect, but she said what she did was to save her family.<\/p>\n

“Anyone that is a victim never expects to be a victim,” said Gonzalez. “You should be prepared.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gonzalez’ story airs tomorrow night on Discovery Channel’s “Over My Dead Body”. <\/p>\n

In my searches for our “Feel Good Stories”, I regularly read articles about folks who didn’t have a gun when they needed one – usually ending badly for the innocent victims who did nothing to invite an attack on themselves or their families or their property, other than just living their lives in relative comfort. <\/p>\n

To see what I mean, Google “Home Invasion” sometime in the news category of searches. Scores of incidents across the country every day. All the police can do is investigate and punish the perpetrators which is very little help to the victims in many cases, if the criminals get caught at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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