81-year-old Detroit man shoots at intruder, scares him off

clickondetroit.com ^ | 30 November, 2012 | Roger Weber

[marktwain]

DETROIT -

An 81-year-old Detroit homeowner was upstairs when a brick shattered his sliding glass door.

"I heard a loud 'pow' sound," said Dave, who did not want his full name used in this story.

The sound jolted Dave from his sleep at 7 a.m. He could see from his bedroom that the door had been broken. He reached for his .22-caliber handgun.

"I have had this (gun) since 1955 and never been fired. Never been fired," Dave said.

He stood about 8 feet from his bedroom door, ready with the gun in case the intruder tried to come through.

[ridesthemiles]

PS: The only times I have shot my guns were to dispatch a 4’++ long rattlesnake heading for my mare & her new foal......9 rattles on his tail. I put too many holes into him for the neighbor kid to have a spiffy hatband.

I shot at a coyote who was lurking AT MY BACK DOOR. Missed him, but pissed him off.

[Navy Patriot]

Detroit is not a wildly liberal city. Its a city with a corrupt government and apathetic population but the judges tend to recognize the right to self defense.

Accepted, The overwhelming majority of California urban and suburban cities and and counties are identical or worse in their government, Rat, and MSM corruption police included. We have far more bad judges, and absolute arrogance in public "servants".

However, the rural areas and population are the absolute opposite kind of people, but are treated as serfs by the urbanites with all the power.

Any move in California that bolsters gun rights is unintended consequences of a corrupt Rat move designed to protect one of their own.

California does have a reasonably good castle doctrine law. Almost no one knows that it was rushed through the legislature more than two decades ago, to protect a sitting California Assemblyman, who had killed a burglar in his own home, but failed to retreat and use all methods of escape as required by then California law. Once the new castle doctrine law was passed, prosecutors would be unable to convict the Assemblyman in the upcoming trial, as his action was specifically allowed under the new law.

The Rats were forced to live with the law when they discovered they couldn't repeal it without severe political damage.

That political climate is gone in California now, and Rat attacks on 2A rights are unceasing. To make castle doctrine worthless in CA the cities are passing "safe storage" laws that make it impossible to retrieve a firearm quickly enough to successfully defend yourself. Violate safe storage and you are a felon and any use of the firearm is illegal. California judges, so far LOVE the "safe storage" laws, so we have no protection here except informed jurors, God help us.

I'm glad you have good judges there, more power to ya.