Outstanding home defense! More stories like this one need to be all over public media too.
 
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/mother-of-two-surprises-burglar-with-five-gunshots/nTnGR/

Good story and and woman to boot.

And they say we don't need high capacity magazines.  After 5 shots the guy still managed to walk out to the neighbours house and ask for help. If he was intent on hurting them he still was capable.

That door you just kick in was ment for your protection . Big props to this woman ain't nothing more valuable in life then your family .

How the h##l did he survive? 5 shots to the face and neck and he lives? I wish she reloaded and finished the job. Who knows what he'll do when he gets out again. Props to her though. Don't f&$k with a mom and her kids!

Maybe they got the caliber wrong and it was a .380?  Then I can possibly, kind of understand?  But 5 shots of .38 to the face and neck and still be able to run away.  Good lord.  I would have thought that a 9mm at close range to the face would be enough.  Props to the guy for being He-Man.  I guess lucky it wasn't a .45?

He was probably on "bath salts"

Quote Of The Day:

“When you got five bullets in you, it makes you kind of disoriented,” Chapman told the AJC.

 

Maybe they got the caliber wrong and it was a .380?  Then I can possibly, kind of understand?  But 5 shots of .38 to the face and neck and still be able to run away.  Good lord.  I would have thought that a 9mm at close range to the face would be enough.  Props to the guy for being He-Man.  I guess lucky it wasn't a .45?

A guy on my first boat committed suicide with his M9.  They did CPR on him until the ambulance arrived, and he didn't die until he was on the way to the hospital.  People in real life don't die as conveniently as they do in the movies.  In the movies, a gunshot wound causes instantaneous death, a stab wound to the chest causes death in ~5 seconds, and strangling someone to death is a quick 10 second struggle.

This story provides excellent illustration for why law-abiding gun owners should keep their standard capacity magazines.

No clear mention of warning or threat. :/

One way to read that story is that he thought the house was empty and was burglarizing it. He opened the wrong closet and got shot. Not saying the mother did the wrong thing but this is not an ideal story to be sharing with any non-gun friends you have. They may well point out that the burglar wasn't actually threatening - other than with his presence - the mother or her children.

Without further detail there is no way to tell for certain.

 

No clear mention of warning or threat. :/

One way to read that story is that he thought the house was empty and was burglarizing it. He opened the wrong closet and got shot. Not saying the mother did the wrong thing but this is not an ideal story to be sharing with any non-gun friends you have. They may well point out that the burglar wasn't actually threatening - other than with his presence - the mother or her children.

Without further detail there is no way to tell for certain.

If any unwelcomed person enters my home with my wife and children alone. She knows what to do . Sorry like I heard before "due the the increase in ammo price you will not receive a warning shot "

No clear mention of warning or threat. :/

One way to read that story is that he thought the house was empty and was burglarizing it. He opened the wrong closet and got shot. Not saying the mother did the wrong thing but this is not an ideal story to be sharing with any non-gun friends you have. They may well point out that the burglar wasn't actually threatening - other than with his presence - the mother or her children.

Without further detail there is no way to tell for certain.

If your non-gun friends don't think that a woman, hiding in her own home with her children, is fully within her rights to shoot an intruder, there's no hope for them anyway.

Edit: To fix inaccuracy in the portrayal of the event.

If your non-gun friends don't think that a woman, hiding in her own home with her children, is fully within her rights to shoot an intruder, there's no hope for them anyway.

Edit: To fix inaccuracy in the portrayal of the event.

Amen to that

If your non-gun friends don't think that a woman, hiding in her own home with her children, is fully within her rights to shoot an intruder, there's no hope for them anyway.

Edit: To fix inaccuracy in the portrayal of the event.

+1

No clear mention of warning or threat. :/

One way to read that story is that he thought the house was empty and was burglarizing it. He opened the wrong closet and got shot. Not saying the mother did the wrong thing but this is not an ideal story to be sharing with any non-gun friends you have. They may well point out that the burglar wasn't actually threatening - other than with his presence - the mother or her children.

Without further detail there is no way to tell for certain.

In many states, a home invasion is a violent felony, and deadly force is allowed to stop a violent felony.

Hawaii only limits you to preventing or stopping an immediate threat of one of five criteria.