Happy Friday Gun Owners! Here are a couple of Good News Gun Stories to send you off into the weekend! I love this granny's attitude, as she feels safe with her .38-caliber pistol by her side!
And I know this video has made its way around the internet, but I had to include it, since it's such a great visual example of how guns really do save lives!
Gun-toting S.C. granny scares off burglars
BLENHEIM, S.C. – There are certain people criminals should not mess with: martial arts experts, superheroes and Ruby Hodge of Blenheim.
When two would-be burglars broke into the 89-year-old widow’s house Monday on S.C. Highway 38 just outside of Blenheim, they probably didn’t expect to find Hodge and her .38-caliber pistol waiting for them.
Standing in her bedroom next to her pink and white floral bedspread, Hodge is just over 5 feet tall and weighs maybe 100 pounds soaking wet. However, just after 8 a.m. Monday, she was more than two grown men could handle.
“I decided I would go see who it was,” Hodge said, recalling she heard someone knock twice on her back door just off the kitchen of her small house. “But before I moved, they knocked a third time and busted my door open. I said to myself, ‘That’s a break in!'“
The men – later identified by police as Ronnie Henry Stevenson Jr., 31, of 956 High Point Road in Lydia, and Nelson Hawkins, 42, of 1564 Turnpike Road in Darlington – were no strangers to the law. Both had lengthy criminal records and were persons of interest on prior burglaries by both Marlboro County and Darlington County sheriffs’ offices.
Their experienced criminal background did them little good against Hodge.
“I got my gun,” she said, reaching under her mattress just as she did Monday morning and pulling out her .38-caliber pistol, fully loaded with six bullets. It belonged to her late husband, who died some 22 years ago. Since then it has just been Hodge and as she showed Stevenson and Hawkins, she can take care of herself.
Tip to burglars: Don’t bring pepper spray to a gunfight.
A burglar in Costa Mesa learned this earlier in the week after blasting a homeowner in the face with his pepper spray canister. The homeowner, presumably blinded, nonetheless managed to retrieve his handgun and squeeze off a few rounds in the general direction of the intruder, Costa Mesa police said in a press release.
He missed, but the burglar fled for his life.
The incident took place around 2:40 a.m. Monday morning, police said, when “an unknown suspect pried open the front door to a home in the 2400 block of Elden Street.” The homeowner, awoken by the noise, discovered the intruder in his bedroom -- right before getting pepper sprayed. (Apparently burglars are known to do this.)
But he somehow managed to grab his gun -- perhaps he keeps it by the bed? -- and fired at the burglar.
“The suspect was last seen running eastbound down the driveway,” police said.
Nothing in the home was taken.
Police have no description of the burglar, probably because his intended victim had been blinded. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Det. Rob Hanson of the Costa Mesa Police Department at (714) 754-5162.
It gets tiring listening to the liberal media crushing the Second Amendment, every time they report on a story where a gun was used to harm. Yes, it happens, and it's devastating, every time a life is lost or injured ... due to the misuse of firearms. It's the age-old argument, "guns don't kill people, people kill people". And it's true. The gun didn't aim itself at the innocent person. The trigger didn't pull itself. There was a brain and a human action behind the gun.
We could go on and on and on, couldn't we?
Well, since the liberal media refuses to report on stories where guns were used properly and where they were used to save a life, we will do our part to spread those good-news stories around. The people need to hear them. And the Second Amendment needs the support of smart, law-abiding citizens that effectively use their firearms, when necessary.
So every Friday, we will post a story or two, about how guns saved a life. This is our "Life Saver: Good News Gun Stories" Series. So stay tuned, and re-post our good news stories with a link back to our blog!
Today, you get two stories {with one even coming from the Bay Area}:
CA Man With Permit to Carry Stops Restaurant Robbery 2012JUNE 26
A CA man with a concealed weapons permit stopped an armed robbery at a Subway Sandwich shop. The would be robber ordered a sandwich and after the clerk was done making it the suspect drew a knife and demanded money. Read Full Story
Man holds teen burglary suspect at gunpoint in Santa Rosa
SANTA ROSA -- Police in Santa Rosa arrested a teenaged boy who allegedly broke into a house Sunday night after a man living at the home held the would-be burglar at gunpoint, a police sergeant said.
