MaggieD
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Jan Cooper, of Anaheim, fired one shot from her .357-magnum Smith & Wesson revolver around 12:30 a.m. Sunday as a man attempted to break into her home. During a 911 call of the incident, Cooper can be heard begging with the dispatcher to send deputies and warns that she has a gun at the ready as her Rottweiler barks furiously in the background.Minutes later, a breathless Cooper says the man has come to the back porch and is trying to get in the house through a sliding door. Through the vertical blinds, Cooper saw his silhouette just inches away through the glass as he began to slide open the door.
"I'm firing!" Cooper shouts to the dispatcher as a loud band goes off. Cooper then curses at the suspect, shouting at him to "back up."
"You'd better get the police here. I don't know whether I hit him or not. I'm not sure. He's standing at my door, my back door. He's in my yard," she said.
The suspect, 31-year-old Brandon Alexander Perez, was not hit and was arrested a short while later by responding deputies, who heard the gunshot, said Jim Amormino, spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Read more: Grandma, 72, shoots at home intruder in California, defends actions | Fox News
As if she had to defend her actions:
Sans her gun, we'd be reading a very different story about Gram and her 85-year-old husband.
If we're going to report horror stories, we need to report when the good guys win. Thoughts?
As if she had to defend her actions:
Sans her gun, we'd be reading a very different story about Gram and her 85-year-old husband.
If we're going to report horror stories, we need to report when the good guys win. Thoughts?
I'm glad she had the weapon.
Too bad she missed.
I'm a little surprised that she had a gun in Anaheim.
"Any person using force intended or likely to cause death or great bodily injury within his or her residence shall be presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily injury to self, family, or a member of the household when that force is used against another person, not a member of the family or household, who unlawfully and forcibly enters or has unlawfully and forcibly entered the residence and the person using the force knew or had reason to believe that an unlawful and forcible entry occurred."[19] This would make the homicide justifiable under CPC § 197.[20] CALCRIM 506 gives the instruction, "A defendant is not required to retreat. He or she is entitled to stand his ground and defend himself and, if reasonably necessary, to pursue an assailant until the danger ... has passed. This is so even if safety could have been achieved by retreating."
On a side note, is anyone else tied of reading stories about repeat offender criminals?
Maybe it's time we start having a discussion as to whether our sentences are too lenient.
On a side note, is anyone else tied of reading stories about repeat offender criminals?
Maybe it's time we start having a discussion as to whether our sentences are too lenient.
Does it not stand to reason that liberals wanted her and her husband to die?
I mean, I feel like I'm constantly reading liberals accusing conservatives of wanting children to die because they support the Second Amendment. Shouldn't the opposite be true?
Self defense can be achieved without a high powered assault rifle!
If a 72 year old woman can defend herself with a revolver than anybody can.
Does it not stand to reason that liberals wanted her and her husband to die?
I mean, I feel like I'm constantly reading liberals accusing conservatives of wanting children to die because they support the Second Amendment. Shouldn't the opposite be true?
Does it not stand to reason that liberals wanted her and her husband to die?
I mean, I feel like I'm constantly reading liberals accusing conservatives of wanting children to die
Shouldn't the opposite be true?
There is no doubt in my mind that this home was targeted by this jerk. Two old people. That's no coincidence.
My mom is 83, her partner is 82. There are some druggies across the street who asked her one day who lives with her. I take that very seriously. I don't know what she could do to counter that, but I will never forget they asked.
Self defense can be achieved without a high powered assault rifle! If a 72 year old woman can defend herself with a revolver than anybody can.
Shotguns!
If you shoot a pistol in a populated area you could inadvertently kill a neighbor.
Buck shot or bird shot is all you need. (preferably bird shot, then you probably won't kill them)
Revolvers are nice. My primary carry gun is a revolver (with 2 speed loaders). HOWEVER, she's fortunate that there was a single intruder and that the one shot scared him enough to stop his advance. When I go into more urban areas I don't carry the revolver. I carry my Smith & Wesson M&P9 semi-auto and AT LEAST one additional magazine. In the rare circumstance that I have to go into a bad enough areas I'll carry BOTH guns and the additional ammo.
Shotguns have their advantages. Not terribly concealable and not covered by most CCW laws for carry on the street, but in home defense they are useful. HOWEVER, you do not EVER shoot to wound. If you need to fire it is with the intent to KILL. If you aren't in a position to need to KILL, then you don't pull out the gun in the first place.
If she made a mistake, it was in not emptying her gun, in my opinion. I wouldn't have had the confidence she did that my one shot would stop him.
On a side note, is anyone else tied of reading stories about repeat offender criminals?
Maybe it's time we start having a discussion as to whether our sentences are too lenient.
It's not about crime. It's about control and spite. They want to demonize gun owners to disarm us. They don't give a rats ass about crime. If they did they would be addressing it and not useless gun laws.
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