Another Geezer (78 yr old) shoots a burglar.

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11341726

Happened on Oct, 20th.

HAWKINS, TX (KLTV) - It took one shot for an East Texas senior to put an end to a would-be robber's crime spree. The story began around 2am Monday morning at Southside Bank in Hawkins. The branch is located inside Brookshire's, right off Highway 14. That is where police say 19-year-old David McWhorter was spotted, first. We spoke to the homeowner whose one shot landed the alleged burglar in the ER.

"Just...put the gun up to the window, and he was standing there and I pulled the trigger," said the 78-year-old homeowner.

One shot through the window was all it took. Our homeowner didn't mind an on camera interview, but asked his name not be released. He suffers from a hip injury and was sitting in his chair when the suspect broke into his screened porch. He says it is not the first time he has been broken into. Every window is now nailed shut and a baggie full of ammo for his 4-10 single-shot shotgun is always nearby.


UPDATE: Oct 27 http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091027/NEWS01/910270344

McWhorter (He is the wounded burglar.) is charged with two counts of burglary of a building and one count of burglary of a habitation. A motion also has been filed in Upshur County to revoke his probation for an earlier burglary.

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NEWS:"That .78 left a hole; as did the recoil..."

78 yr old geezer with a hip injury should have used his super-ninja martial arts skills on the 19 year old burglar.

I will also wait for the usual posters who claim that guns are useless to us geezers (I am a geezer.) as the healthy young goblins will take them away from us and use them against us.

why didn't he use his super-ninja martial arts skills to disable the burglar?

trying to portray the criminal as the good guy (Or at least not-so-bad)and the resident as having the heart of a murderer, lusting for his chance to legally whack a poor hard working goblin.

Now you have me wondering if I might be a geezer. Is there any official criteria, such as age, mental/physical condition, activity or lack thereof? Or is it the kind of thing that if you think you're a geezer, then you are?

As for the young taking away guns, if they can dodge #4 buck moving at 1300 feet per second, them having the gun is the least of my worries.

Who claim that they faster than a speeding bullet?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/12/national/main5378015.shtml

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does not mean that they should be taken away from the rest of us.

and lying dead on the sofa in the living room.

I guarantee it changes your attitudes.

The problem with things the way they are today is you have to trust every stranger who has a gun. Would you trust them to take your 8 year old daughter off somewhere unsupervised? Certainly not. But you'll trust them to do the right thing with a gun.

Right. :eyes:

Some people go on a crusade against guns as a means to an end, rather than the cause. Others might choose to arm themselves knowing that cops are typically there to mop up and investigate. Nice emotional appeal though.

How one responds to a tragedy isn't as cut and dried as you make it out to be.

And bonus points for the lovejoy. Had I a daughter, I'd trust her to a stranger every time I put her on a bus, every time I put her in the car of someone in the neighborhood carpool, every time I put her on a plane by herself to go visit her mother for the weekend..

To own a gun, legally, one has to pass an NICS check. But that only allows one to have a gun in their home. They can't pack it around, except a few states.

To carry the gun around, they need a CCW. In most states, that involves a genuine FBI background check. Statistics have shown such people to be among the most trustworthy in the nation. So if you are trusting your 8 yr old to a CCW person in one of the strict states, then you have entrusted her to a segment of the population that is extremely honorable and law-abiding. She will be safe.

Furthermore, almost all murders are commited by people who have already been outlawed from even touching a gun. But since they are outlaws, they don't give a damn about your laws.

Yet you "trust" car owners by the thousands every day.

I've written about this "trust" issue before.

guns breed drama, stupid people in cars stack bodies. Those are just accidents though. Just another way to change intracranial pressure.

second is, "I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy."

there is a possible side effect of being shot.