The Right ... Shall Not Be Infringed



Usually when you hear about a 14-year-old and a gun, it's another school shooting. However, this time, if this story proves to be true, a Texas teen defended himself, his mother and his home through the use of justified deadly force. (Hat tip: Instapundit)

A 14-year-old boy shot and killed a man who broke into his family's home Monday and threatened to kill him and his mother, Police Chief Bryan Smith said.

Smith said the man, confronted a woman as she was carrying groceries into her home shortly before 1 p.m. The man forced her inside and tied her and her son up. Smith said the woman was able to loosen the binding and free her son, who got his father's revolver from a security box beneath a bed.

As the man tried to break into the room where the two were and threatened to kill them both, the teen fired a shot through the door and hit the intruder in the head, Smith said.

It isn't ideal that a 14-year-old must be pushed to use deadly force. But this isn't an ideal world. I hope he receives the counseling he needs -- and, as time moves forward, takes solace in that had he not acted so bravely both he and his mother would be dead ... and not some cracked-out punk.

"An armed society is a polite society." -- Robert Heinlein

P.S. Note the gun was kept in a security box and was a revolver. I recommended both of these for personal protection in the now-infamous "Pick On Someone Your Own Caliber" post.