Well, that's how the headline would have read had this taken place in a nanny state like gun-grabbing NYC or DC or even Communista New Jersey... Instead we get this headline: Phoenix boy, 14, shoots armed intruder while watching three younger siblings http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/2...truder-while-watching-three-younger-siblings/ What a difference a state makes. My favorite part: Well, obviously the boy had not been trained enough, since the dirt-bag survived.
Yep, the state you're in makes a difference, as in this example (local Fox news link to the story) where a cop coming home from work and finds finds himself in the middle of a conflict between gun-toting idiots, or drunks, or punks, whatever they were. I thought I might post this as a question in a thread of its own, but here seems ok: If gun control is not the solution to prevent this kind of problem, what is? I'd like to have the question framed in terms of ordinary citizens going about their business. Citizens who aren't police or quasi-vigilantes, who would rather think about physics or organ transplants or a better algorithm for stock market trading. It is a greater impact on ordinary lives to be thrust into a life-or-death struggle unprepared, and preparedness would take its toll on the quality of the work done by ordinary citizens. As Einstein said, one cannot play the violin well if one has recently been working with a large hammer.
