Homeowners Fight Back--Use Guns to Prevent Crime

Homeowners across the country are fighting back against crime. It's about time. From Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Longview, Texas, to Tuscon, Arizona, stories of homeowners using firearms to stop robberies, home invasions, burglaries, and even murder, are being reported in the local hometown newspapers.

The gratifying thing is that not in a single one of these cases were the homeowners charged with manslaughter, assault with a deadly weapon, or murder. In fact, in one city local law enforcement officials praised the initiative of the homeowners, stating that, 'Hopefully the criminals will get the message.'

The District Attorneys and local law enforcement officials in each of these areas of the country are to be heartily commended for their support and recognition of the right of law-abiding citizens to possess and use firearms in the defense of life and property.

In one case, an 80-year-old man shot two burglars who had broken into his home and were loading their vehicle with the man's property while he slept. One died as a result of the homeowner's self-defense. Thankfully, he was not charged with any crime. And should the local DA change his mind, a howl of protest should arise far and wide all over the country. Responsible citizens are fed up with government regulation and limitation of our right to self-defense. We are not going to take it anymore. The latest cases from Albuquerque, Longview, and Tuscon portray a refreshing movement among the citizenry to take back their Constitution from liberal revisionists who would rob us of our rights.

These are the kinds of stories you will never read about in major newspapers such as the New York Times or see on network evening news broadcasts. The anti-gun bigot establishment is dedicated to burying such stories that portray law-abiding gun owners in a positive light. Instead we are treated to propaganda pieces that claim the ownership of handguns is the reason for crime.

Remember, it is never the perpetrator's fault in the minds of these Einsteins.

In order to understand the way of thinking on the part of these gun-grabbing rights-robbers, you must engage in 'suspension of disbelief.' Rationality is not a prerequisite. One must engage in pure fantasy. Here is the scenario.

The availability of guns leads to a mysterious urge of human beings to go buy them, almost inexplicably. Some of these human beings, a small minority in fact, commit crimes with these guns (less than 1% of gun owners engage in crime). But it is not due to any decision on criminals' part. The guns just find themselves in their hands, and in a magical, dreamlike state, the perpetrators find themselves carried along by the dreaded weapon whereupon it discharges on its own, regardless of any action on the part of the one carrying it. Therefore, guns must be banned and the criminals pitied as victims of an evil 'gun culture.'

Do you understand this yet?

While the gun-grabbers blame inanimate objects for crime and murder, their co-conspirators in the press and in politics vilify anyone who owns a gun legally and uses it responsibly.

Once again, suspension of disbelief is required to understand this 'logic.' When a criminal uses a gun to commit a crime, it is the gun's fault. This is why guns must be banned. Yet when a law-abiding citizen uses a gun in self-defense of life and property, it is not the gun's fault but the citizen's. Countless citizens have found themselves charged with crimes resulting from the defense of their lives and property with guns, not to mention the asinine lawsuits brought against such citizens by the families of the criminals, or even the criminals themselves.

Somewhere in the land of tweetie birds and looney tunes, this makes sense, I'm sure.

Despite the all-out war of the Left on the rights of law-abiding citizens to own and use guns, responsible, sensible people are doing what anyone with a lick of sense would do for self-protection. They purchase firearms and learn to use them. Each year thousands of crimes are stopped by dedicated citizens who use their guns. Scores of Americans who are violated as they sleep in their beds by home invasions are spared an agonizing death because they are armed. Rapes are prevented because pistol-packin' Mammas pulled out their handguns and dared the thugs to lay a hand on them.

Yet NONE of this is reported by Katie Couric or her colleagues in the liberal media establishment.

Thus, I raise my glass in a toast to the news reporters on the local level who WILL report these courageous acts of citizens in the prevention of crime. Congratulations for a job well-done. Keep up the good work, and encourage your brothers and sisters of the press across the country to do the same thing. We need much, much more of these kinds of reports, showing beyond any doubt that owning a gun is a valuable, life-saving deterrent to crime.