Posted on 09/21/2014 6:00:21 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
A robber near El Reno, Oklahoma, targeted the wrong home to attack. Instead of weakly cowering like an impotent Mom’s Demand Attention supporters, Cathy Kouba took action, flanked the surprised burglar by looping around the house, and then unloaded on him:
Cathy Kouba’s home security system alarm jolted her awake Thursday night. She said she realized someone was trying to kick in her back door.
“I have a daughter that’s handicapped and she was asleep on the bottom floor,” Kouba said. “And so for the fear of her being hurt, motherly instincts kick in and, you know, I worked hard for what I’ve got. And you’re not going to come and take it away from me.”
Kouba said she grabbed the gun her son gave her for Mother’s Day and ran out the front door to confront the intruder out back. ““[I cocked the gun], saw that the door had broke down, then I saw him hitting over the fence and head to the creek,” Kouba said.
Kouba said she fired and thinks she hit him in his backside. Adding insult to injury, the intruder got tangled in her electric fence before escaping.
Law enforcement found a blood trail that suggests Kouba connected with the burglar, but does not yet have a suspect in custody.
In many jurisdictions shooting a fleeing criminal is considered assault with a deadly weapon and so firing at a fleeing suspect is not encouraged, but the authorities here seem to show very little interest in charging Kouba. The simple fact of the matter is that the odds of a successful prosecution of the mother of a special needs child defending her home is between slim and none, and the prosecutor knows it.
Unfortunately the same response in some parts of the nation—each and every one dark blue politically—would result in her being charged.
Fire only when faced with immediate lethal force, folks.
I understand and sympathize with the mother’s reactions.
But I think a wiser way to deal with the situation, tactically, would be to take cover between the entry and the daughter, and blast him when he comes through the door.
Inside, she knows the terrain and the perp doesn’t. When she went outside, she exposed herself to the risk of there being more assailants, possibly armed, getting shot and leaving her daughter unprotected.
In this case, IMO anyway, protecting the daughter is infinitely more important than protecting the house.
I didn’t shoot him fleeing he was running backwards toward me honest officer.
My hat is off to this precious mother and her motherly instincts and to her son who clearly bought her the right gift.
Finally, a voice of reason. Too many bloodthirsty heathens on this thread.
Oh..wait..what kind of bike?
How about the perp’s skull made into a drinking cup ????
Viking style
One for the “Oh, what a day I’m having” file.
I thought it was a coyote trying to kill my livestock! What do you mean what livestock, damn I thought sure I had some livestock around here. Sorry.
And keep in mind that the ONLY REASON she was able to do what she did and NOT be arrested is because there are ENOUGH REPUBLICANS around protecting that right (maybe not every Republican, but still around 90% of them).
Think about that, the next time some troll states that there is no difference between the parties.
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