Sunday feel-good story
Cortillaen sends us a link to a Sunday feel good story about a 14-year-old in Phoenix, AZ who was watching his three elementary-school aged siblings when a woman began ringing his the doorbell at his home. He herded the younger kids upstairs and armed himself with the family firearm;
When he got to the top of the stairs, he saw a man break through the front door and point a gun at him.
The boy shot the 37-year-old man, who was taken to a hospital in extremely critical condition and underwent surgery. The man was upgraded to critical condition and is expected to survive and be booked into jail within the week on counts of aggravated assault and burglary, Holmes said.
He said the suspect did not get a shot off. He declined to release his name until he is booked into jail.
The woman who rang the home’s doorbell got away.
I guess the part to really feel good about is the Phoenix police reaction to the shooting;
[Phoenix police Officer James Holmes] hailed the teen’s actions and his parents for teaching the kids to never open the door to strangers.
“The police and indeed our community does not ever want to see a situation where a teenager of that age has to take a weapon to protect his family … but this young man did exactly what he should have done,” he said. “I’m not sure he gave full thought about what he had to do. He just acted.”
So, parents, make sure you train your kids to use your firearms, and train them when to use it. I was 14 when I got my first gun.
I was 12 when I got my first firearm and had to take the firearm safety course in order to go hunting. Just like the feel good story out of Idaho a couple years ago when a young lady (11-12 I believe) was forced to dispatch 2 scumbags with extreme prejudice after they broke in just after her dad had left the house (they were casing the house, obviously).
I hope they find the woman that was ringing the bell, because she needs to go to jail, too.
Go little dude. That’s how you take care of your family.
Yup. Kid did right on all counts. I got a BB gun at age 12 and then was permitted to buy my own .22 when I was 16. In between, I took shooting lessons and got my target shooting merit badge with the Boy Scouts. My father owned a nice Winchester 12-gauge, and our scout master taught us all about trap shooting and bird hunting. There were plenty of Pheasant available where we lived and we took advantage of that.
But growing up where I did, it was the exception for anyone to NOT have a firearm (or three or ten). Hell, even in High School, you could still find numbers of pick up trucks in the school parking lot with rifles and/or shotguns in the rear window rack. It’s a shame you don’t see that today.
@3: Yep, we used to go pheasant hunting after school, so we would have our shotguns in our trucks in the parking lot at school. Everyone knew they were there and some of the teachers, who hunted, would have theirs at school, also. Some times, if someone had a new one, students and teachers would go out and look at it at lunch time and we would all tell hunting stories while looking at the new firearm. No one would touch them and no one cared, either. Now, you get arrested and expelled from school for having a Boy Scout hatchet in the trunk of your car on school property (happened to a kid at the school in my town just a couple years ago).
Same thing happened in my neck of the woods.
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10553140/
I was about 8 when I got my first gun as a Christmas present. Winchester Model 190 .22 Had it for many years and it traveled miles through woods and fields accounting for unknown numbers of rabbits, woodchucks, partridge and squirrels.
@5: I like how the dispatcher tells him not to shoot while he’s on the phone with her. Riiiiiiiight. Is he just supposed to hand the phone to the bad guy so the dispatcher can tell the bad guy that he’s in trouble?
Telling the Boy not to shoot? was that dispatcher’s personal opinion or her training?
Probably her training. They always tell you “don’t do anything”.
I prefer crossbows, my short sword, big kitchen butcher knife, and handy meat hammer. I’m getting cranky in my old age.
This is outstanding. I just bought my 6 year old lil” guy his first gun 4 weeks ago. He is very proud of his “RED RYDER” and he is a good shooter.
I learned on the Daisy Eagle, had both iron sights and a scope, best way to start learning the fundamentals of marskmanship and weapons safety, IMO. Later on I got a Remington 870 Express Magnum for my 15th, with a lefty ejection port, not easy to find. It still sits in my gun safe with my other various assorted firearms, with some .00 buck just in case someone mistakes my home for theirs. Good on this kid for protecting his family.
@9: Hey!! He’ll shoot his eye out!!!!
Do nothing= just DIE. Hell NO .I will shoot their eye and the back of their head. 230 gr 911