Mom With a Gun

She's 18 years old, her husband died of lung cancer, leaving her to raise their baby boy alone, and a week later two thugs broke into her house.



She killed one intruder with a shotgun and the other ran away, called 911 and turned himself in. There are a few factors to note.

1. This is the kind of story that gun-grabbing, anti-Second-Amendment types love to ignore and/or deny exist.  Reality disagrees.  Dr Gary Kleck published a study in 1995 concluding that up to 2.5 million Americans used guns to defend themselves from criminals in 1993.  In 1997, the Department of Justice published a study concluding that 1.5 million Americans used guns to defend themselves from criminals in 1994.  The National Institute of Justice reports that in 2005 "477,040 persons were victims of a crime committed with a firearm" and that "Homicides committed with firearms peaked in 1993 at 17,075".  That means that Americans use guns to defend themselves from criminals 3.1 to 5.2 times more often than criminals use them in crimes, and 87.8 to 146.4 times more often than criminals use them to kill their victims.
2. Gun-grabbers claim they want to protect people by keeping guns away from criminals.  Let's assume they're right in concluding that gun laws keep guns out of the hands of people who refuse to obey the law (they're wrong).  The criminals that broke into Mrs McKinley's house did not have a gun.  They had a knife.  Who do you think would have the advantage in a fight to the death between two drugged out male criminals armed with a knife and an unarmed 18-year-old mom with a baby boy?
3. Gun-grabbers claim that only well-trained people - such as military or law enforcement professionals - are capable of defending themselves or others with guns.  Most gun owners - they claim - are more likely to kill themselves than a potential attacker.  Mrs McKinley said she'd only shot her late husband's shotgun once before she killed a criminal with it. Furthermore, the millions in Dr Kleck's and the NIJ's studies prove the gun-grabbers ignorant or liars.  Training is good, more training is better, but even untrained people use guns to defend themselves effectively hundreds of thousands of times per year.
4. Gun-grabbers claim that police are perfectly capable of protecting all of us and therefore we don't need to own guns privately.  Mrs McKinley was on the phone with the 911 dispatcher for 21 minutes!  Think about that!

Mrs McKinley's guns served their purpose perfectly.  Guns are physical equalizers.  They give physically weaker people an advantage over physically stronger opponents.  Even if the criminals had been armed, she still would've had the advantage because she knew where they were.  They didn't know where she was.  She ambushed them. 

Gun-grabbers hate stories like Mrs McKinley's.  Gun grabbers believe Mrs McKinley should've turned her late husband's guns into the police after his death and allowed her attackers to have their way with her - whatever that might mean.  In their eyes, that would've been the morally superior thing to do. 

Thank God for the Second Amendment.  Thank God Mrs McKinley and her baby are safe.  May her dead attacker burn in Hell, and may the live one fry.