Dont mess with 11yr olds in the USA

[Greenmachine]

Crikey if you even touch a home invader in Australia you can get charged with aggravated assault. I sure makes you wonder eh!

BUTTE, MONTANA

Shotgun pre-teen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders...

Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11-year-old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home to go to work.

It seems the two crooks never learned two things: they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay-shooting champion since she was nine.

Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.

Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from the 11-year-old's knee-crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals.

When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death

before medical help could arrive.

It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45-caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David 0'Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest.

Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news........?

An 11 year old girl, properly trained, defended her home, and herself......against two murderous, illegal immigrants.......and she wins,

She is still alive.

Now THAT is Gun Control!

[RyanG45]

WOW she 11 and doing that holy moly

[Gary_C]

I am from Montana. The odds are really against easily breaking into a home that does not have guns. These guys would have probably lived if the girl would have been older because she would have been less likely to panic.

I started shooting at 4 and we always had one loaded gun in the house and around 12 unloaded in the closet.

[dhess]

Great story, the crims clearly had it coming to them. Having said that I don't know what is more scary, armed home invaders or leaving 11 year olds at home with loaded shotguns that aren't locked up.

Wonder what the stats are life saved as a result of having an easily accessible firearm vs. people (especially kids) doing stupid spur of the moment stuff or accidentally getting shot because weapons weren't properly secured.

[Bagless]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/homeinvasion.asp

:whistle:

[ellicat]

Great story, the crims clearly had it coming to them. Having said that I don't know what is more scary, armed home invaders or leaving 11 year olds at home with loaded shotguns that aren't locked up.

Wonder what the stats are life saved as a result of having an easily accessible firearm vs. people (especially kids) doing stupid spur of the moment stuff or accidentally getting shot because weapons weren't properly secured.

Just like with boats, dogs, cars, snakes etc etc it is the ones that are unfamiliar that are more likely to falter with use/handling. Likewise, the novelty of using a gun is more attractive to play with for those that don't have or use one regularly.

I'd trust both my boys with available firearms. Most of their city-life friends are another story though.

[dhess]

Fair enough point. Would really like to know what the statistics are. Level headed people, that are familiar with firearms, are trained in their safe use still can and will sucumb to passion and/or spur of the moment tomfoolery. Juat wondering how often this happens with undesirable consequences.

Classic example, I have a friend who was discharged from the police on medical grounds who claims that he and his partner would go driving around late at night around nudgee beach trying to shoot bunnies with their service revolvers.

[bootyinblue]

This story is along the lines of my alternate thinking about guns. Make all guns legal and home invasions will slow dramatically as you are never sure if there are bigger guns behind the door you age about to kick down.