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Boy, Aged 13, Home Alone Shoots Suspected Burglar With His Mother’s Gun
yahoo.com ^ | November 11, 2015

Posted on 11/11/2015 5:28:48 AM PST by grundle

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To: twister881

“alternative shoppers”

LMAO!


41 posted on 11/11/2015 6:26:03 AM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: stylin_geek
He puts three rounds in a suspect while receiving incoming fire , then, continues the battle and puts bullet holes in a car driving away.

That’s not just shooting, that is cool under pressure.

That's a future Marine....

42 posted on 11/11/2015 6:26:10 AM PST by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: stylin_geek

Agreed. And that with two adult men returning fire. Quite cool.


43 posted on 11/11/2015 6:31:30 AM PST by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: stylin_geek
That’s not just shooting, that is cool under pressure.

Reminds me of the New York musician's joke, 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?'

'Practice, practice, practice!'

44 posted on 11/11/2015 6:44:25 AM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity (Democrat Drinking Game - Every time they mention a new social program, chug someone else's beer.)
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To: norwaypinesavage
Seeing that his accomplice died as a result of the crime, he should also be charged with murder.

That is the Felony Murder Rule . Commit a felony, someone (ANYONE) dies in the commission of it, and you're on the hook. The classic example is a getaway driver (who never enters the store) who is charged with murder when the shopkeep fires at the gunman and accidentally kills a customer. Driver never went inside, because they didn't want to get in trouble... and still get a murder pinned to them.

45 posted on 11/11/2015 6:56:47 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: originalbuckeye

He said then that excessive force shouldn’t be used just because someone was stealing from you.

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Over the years, we’ve had at least 3 notorious incidents of criminals breaking into houses & committing horrific murder .... why should a criminal breaking in get the benefit of the doubt? My attitude is that if someone breaks into my home, they have already demonstrated a complete lack of respect for the law, for the property of others and how am I to know if that extends to a lack of respect for human life? I don’t need to know if they have a gun ... or if they will pick up something in the house such as a knife, or a baseball bat, or a golf club, or a fireplace poker, even a belt or zip ties, etc. If they set foot in my home under those circumstances, I fear for my life and will defend it and I won’t be asking questions or looking to see if they are “armed” first.


46 posted on 11/11/2015 6:59:08 AM PST by Qiviut
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To: Don Corleone

There are a few really accurate .45acp tools now available. One, Rock Island Armory, is producing a flared barrel model which doesn’t use the barrel bushing and locks up when the slide seats. Good tools ...


47 posted on 11/11/2015 7:03:32 AM PST by MHGinTN (Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
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To: grundle

America is in danger of losing much of it’s rich cultural heritage if many more of these aspiring rappers are killed off by our ignoring this appalling and unnecessary gun violence.


48 posted on 11/11/2015 7:08:46 AM PST by Gritty (Merkel is doing what Bomber Harris and the Red Army couldn't...wiping Germany off the map-Mark Steyn)
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To: grundle

OK ... it’s a “journalist” who wrote this, but ...

Let’s say this really was a .45 ACP semi automatic - a Colt 1911.

My P220 with an extended mag holds 10 rounds. This ‘kid’ hit the perp three times, lethally, and then ALSO hit a fleeing vehicle.

did he reload? ;-)

HOLY CRAP. Good shot for ANYONE in a high-adrenaline civilian shoot.

Facts would be interesting here ...


49 posted on 11/11/2015 7:16:48 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: JAKraig
" His mom apparently made sure he knew how to use the gun and he used it very well."

Sounds like he's had plenty of range time or better still plinking time. Was that a 1911 Colt or a Colt Peacemaker?

50 posted on 11/11/2015 7:28:59 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Qiviut; tioga

Agree completely. As I said, Logic in not an attribute of a Liberal mind.


51 posted on 11/11/2015 7:38:53 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: fella
Was that a 1911 Colt or a Colt Peacemaker??

Either one makes really big holes......but, two completely different platforms. I can't imagine a 13 year old with the presence of mind to reload either one in a firefight and continuing though....but you never know.

52 posted on 11/11/2015 7:41:12 AM PST by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: originalbuckeye

He said then that excessive force shouldn’t be used just because someone was stealing from you

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A few years back my bicycle was stolen. Had I caught the thief in the act, I would have shot him/her.

That wasn’t just any bicycle, that was my bicycle.


53 posted on 11/11/2015 8:04:21 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: Qiviut

I have liberal “acquaintances” .... they have told me to my face they want to take MY gun away .... if there are no legal guns, there will be no violent crime (the logic of minds that evidently has as many holes as Swiss Cheese). They also think that anyone “armed” at a school (security, police resource officers, teachers who carry, etc.) does nothing but “frighten the children” so they are totally on board with gun free zones. Of course, when the schools get shot up & kids killed by the mentally ill, their “logic” is that I should give up MY gun.

In the last two years, I have begun purging my social circle of folks like these ... keeps my BP a whole lot lower.


54 posted on 11/11/2015 8:38:20 AM PST by Qiviut
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To: grundle

The 13 year kid needs to train police officers.


55 posted on 11/11/2015 9:17:39 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Don Corleone
Remarkable! I couldn’t hit squat when I had to fire that vest pocket bazooka in the military.

Most of the .45 colts used in training in the service are shot out junk with barrels as smooth as a water pipe and bushings as tight as your underwear after you have lost 40 pounds.

It's not the fault of the weapon's design it is the quartermaster who doesn't bother to replace worn out equipment.

56 posted on 11/11/2015 10:29:51 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: grundle
According to Charleston Police Department, the boy kept firing at the two suspects even when they fled the scene in a car resulting in gunshot holes in the vehicle.

Uh-oh...that changes it from self-defense to attempted murder! At least, in my state...

57 posted on 11/11/2015 10:44:26 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Graybeard58
A few years back my bicycle was stolen. Had I caught the thief in the act, I would have shot him/her.

We had a rash of bike thefts in our neighborhood when our boys were young. I wanted to wire a bike to an electric cord, leave it outside and wet the ground, to cause the thief to have an "accident". Mrs. JimRed in her wisdom forbid it.

58 posted on 11/11/2015 10:54:17 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Qiviut

Well said.
And that exact line of thinking should be extended to immigration.


59 posted on 11/11/2015 12:44:42 PM PST by mumblypeg (I've seen the future; brother it is murder. -L. Cohen)
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To: grundle

Good boy! Now, you are a man.


60 posted on 11/11/2015 3:42:39 PM PST by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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