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Bedridden homeowner shoots burglar

This is the type of story people against gun control, like myself, love to see. Individuals protecting themselves effectively with guns.

As his back door was kicked in Monday afternoon, a South End homeowner - confined to his bed because of a disability - called 911 with one hand and grabbed his 9 mm Glock handgun with the other.

Within seconds, a burglar was in the bedroom and inching closer.

"He didn't stop coming toward me until he was looking down the barrel of a 9 mm," said the 64-year-old homeowner, who didn't want to be identified out of fear for his safety.

The burglar, disguising his face with a handkerchief, backed off several steps and called out to someone else.

"I thought he was going to take off, but he turned back around and he said, 'I'm going to get you,'" the homeowner said. "That's when I shot him."

The homeowner said he has kept a gun in his home for years for protection. He had not fired it outside of the range before Monday.

"I didn't shoot him to kill him," said the homeowner Monday evening as he lay on his side in bed. "I'm thoroughly convinced this guy would have killed me."

Via John Hawkins. And his comments hit the mark:

If you're for strict control, then you're for taking the gun out of that man's hand and leaving him at the mercy those criminals. There are a lot of good reasons to oppose gun control, but one of the most important ones is that gun control legislation helps criminals and hurts law abiding citizens.

Of course gun control isn't going to keep guns out of the hands of criminals -- because duh they're criminals -- they don't care if the law says they can't have a handgun. So who gets hurt? The law abiding citizens who want to do the right thing. But what happens when your wife, your daughter, your mother gets trapped in dark alleyway by some leering thug? If you're for gun control you just shrug your shoulders and hope she doesn't get hurt too much. If you're pro-Second Amendment, you hope she pulls a handgun out of her purse, cocks it, and says "I don't think so" while the punks who were menacing her run away in terror. That's the difference between people who are pro-gun & people who want to take guns away from the American people.

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