Three MORE Cheers For Guns!

Two days before Christmas, Paul Crabtree had some last minute Christmas 'shopping' to do.

His girlfriend/friend/whatever, Elizabeth Holt, also had some 'shopping' to get done... so she went with him.

Unknown person #3, accompanies Paul and Elizabeth to fight the holiday crowds and the trio sets off to get gifts and spread holiday cheer.

How did they fare?

It turns out, they skipped the malls, the traffic and the crowds. Instead they went to an apartment complex, armed themselves with knives and broke into someone's home.

Those were bad decisions. But then it got much worse.

The resident of the apartment was home. And armed. With a gun.

What's the old saying? 'Never bring a knife to a gunfight?'

I'll give you 3 guesses as to who came out on the short end of the stick here, and the first two don't count.

When Crabtree took a slug from the gun, Miss Elizabeth Holt and the other unnamed person decided they got the wrong apartment and got the heck out of dodge. They left Mr. Crabtree at the apartment to discuss things more in depth with the resident.

Rest easy. The good guy (apartment resident) is alive and kicking and gets to enjoy Christmas of 2007.

As for Crabtree? He's forever on the 'Naughtly List' and enjoying a dirt nap. His two accomplices, Elizabeth Holt and the unknown person... they're on the run. For now.

The good news in all this? There's one less criminal you have to worry about breaking into your home and doing you and your family harm. There are two other criminals who will think twice (hopefully) before doing something like this again and will be caught soon.


And lastly... the guy at home who fended off the intruders... He's alive.


Thanks to his gun.

I can only imagine how this scenario might have turned out had our hero only been allowed by government to be armed with a knife...

3 Cheers For Guns!

Recently The Huntsville Times printed an article about a shooting in Huntsville earlier this week. An armed man wearing a ski mask, Demarcus Williams, broke down the door of an apartment.

Can you guess what his intentions were?

Ski mask. Gun. Breaks down door of apartment.

I'll bet he wasn't trying to deliver a pizza in 30 minutes or less.

Williams decision to arm himself, throw on a ski-mask and break into an apartment wasn't the only bad choice of his day. The resident of the apartment was home when he broke in.

And also armed.

Rest easy. There's now one less person on the street who may break into your home. Demarcus is taking a well deserved dirt nap. Three cheers to the armed individual for protecting himself, his family and his property.

Huntsville Police spokesperson, Wendell Johnson, said, "When somebody breaks in your house and you are in fear of your life, you have the right to self-defense."

I don't know about you, but if someone breaks into my house, I don't have to be in fear of my life in order to introduce the intruder to a severe case of lead poisoning or a Louisville Slugger upside the head.

I have the right to self-defense 24/7. Whether my life may be in danger or not.

Later in the article The Times reported that the '...shooting death was the city's seventh homicide of the year.'

Seventh homicide? At this rate, there will be about 20 (give or take) homicides in Huntsville in 2007.

Hypothetical: Go ahead and assume that there will be 20 homicides this year. Sometime in late January or February of 2008, officials will release those numbers. The press will be quick to run the headlines, 'Record high (or low) of gun-related deaths (or homicides) in 2007.' The anti-gun Nazi's will be quick to scream for more 'gun control' (whatever that means) as 'x amount' of deaths is 'x amount' too many.

What is sure to be missing from these future headlines and stories is what you just read about: An individual who used a gun to shoot and kill an armed intruder in his home.

SELF DEFENSE.

It's my guess that this shooting will be lumped in with all the other shooting deaths in Huntsville in '07. Drug related, domestic related, etc.

That's wrong. But I hope I'm wrong about that.