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Posted on 07/11/2006 7:16:53 AM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
An accused group of thugs-- thwarted by a 12-year old with a gun. It happened in Greenville when police say five masked men stormed into a house and started beating up the child's father.
FOX Carolina's Jamie Guirola reports, Try and picture it. A 12 year old walks into the living room, sees his mother frantically protecting the baby, and several strangers attacking his father. The 12 year old rushes out of the living room-- but comes back pointing a gun at the five suspects. As of Monday night-- all but one are in jail.
These are the alleged home invaders without their masks. The youngest barely seventeen, the oldest just 20. George Dickert didn't have time to think about their ages when he tells us they broke into his home and tried to rob his family.
George Dickert/Victim: "F*$# you! That's what I was thinking."
Sunday night, George says, one of the suspects in the group followed him into his house after he smoked a cigarette. He tells us the man pulled out a gun, threatening him. When George reached for a different gun in self-defense a fight broke out.
George: "I work five days a week and my wife works six days a week. We're an honest couple. We do what we have to do to make a living and some idiot decided he wanted what I had."
When the struggle started, police say, two other men came into the house and started beating on George. That's when George's 12 year old made the move credited with scaring the accused thugs out of the house-- and stopping the burglary-- without even firing the gun.'
George: "He did what he had to do to protect his family last night. And a 12 year old child should never have to go through that. Even if he does know what to do, he should not have to do that."
Police later found these four near George's home sweating and breathing heavily. Something George hopes they'll do again if they're convicted and sentenced to the max.
George: "...And I will press and push and do whatever it takes to make sure every individual in it gets it."
Police aren't releasing details about the fifth person they're looking for. George says he has five guns in the house. His taught his son how to use each of them.
Five guns in the house! Just like Baghdad.
The Great Equalizer.
The kid should get an honorary NRA membership.
Call Kim du Toit!
but..but..the anti-gun crowd would have you believe that if the 12 year old had tried to "understand" the anger of these five, sooner or later they'd all be holding hands standing around a campfire singing kumbaya..
Give the boy a medal!
That's all?
Brave 12 yr.old.
... holding hands and giving a tiny slap on the wrist, that will be the Prosecutor and the Judge.
The kid deserves an award with some umph.
A scholarship fund?
I hope this story has legs and stays up for some time.
Heck, I had five guns in the house when I was growing up. But three of them were shotguns for hunting birds. In Baghdad, where my son was, the weapons were AK-47s. When he was had Najaf they had a weapons Buy-back program. In One day he handed out $40,000 in cash.
Guess it's a good thing Dad doesn't believe in gun locks or any of that cr&p.
"they'd all be holding hands standing around a campfire singing kumbaya"..
I just looked up the lyrics to that asinine song. Someones singing, someones laughing, someones crying, someones praying, someones sleeping. End of song.
How profound huh?
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/peter%2C+paul+%26+mary/kumbaya_20107820.html
Good job. I just wish the homeowner had not blabbed the fact that he has five guns in the house. Due to ongoing paranoia about firearms, some excuse is bound to come up now why they should be confiscated.
Well done lad, ask the old man to set up some family range time.
If this was a more liberal state, they would probably arrest the father for child abuse.
In the re-enactment group I belong too everyone is nice to each other. After all we ALL carry live steel 8-)
An armed society is a polite society.
Maybe he did. Maybe this is the new definition of a latchkey kid! (I can see it now; a kid is suspended from school simply for having a key to a trigger lock miles away.)
If you all locked away your guns, would you start beating the crap out of each other?
The thugs were armed. One had a gun. The father pulled out a gun. I don't know why neither opened fire. Maybe they were bluffing, I don't know.
I'm just glad there wasn't a shootout.
This is one of those news items that makes you smile, that makes the day a bit brighter. Here's a family that works for a living, and bothers no one. When someone bothers them for no cause, a 12-year-old not only has the guts to do what is right, he has the tools and the presence of mind...all at the same time.
While I pray that this never happens to my family, I sincerely hope that my kids will be as well-prepared to act similarly should things go bad. Of course, they're only 5 and 2 now, but I'm working on it. Oh, and we have more than 5 guns.
Batman to Robin: "Good work ole chum..."
You have more than five guns. I have just one. I think I'm becomming a socialist. ;-)
Wow. If I was an Iraqi and living in Baghdad, I'd never give up my weapon.
Nope, but from this story 5 bad guys were beating on 1 good guy.
Time for Sam Colt even up the odds and for once the good guys win one.
A story that brightens my day.
Love it!
Careful, G-Bear, There are those on FR who will be on you like a duck on a june bug for that statement. I know that from experience.
I never could figure out why buy guns for protection if they're locked up and you can't get to them in a hurry.
Way to go.
I'm sure they will charge the father for failing to secure the firearm where his son couldn't get to it.
It's for the children. If it costs even one life, it's worth it!
(Barf)
The good thing is that you can easily fix that problem. This is one case where throwing money at something does work.
if a reporter asked you how many guns you had, would you tell him the truth or give him a small number? i don't admit to having as many as i do. i'll only admit to having as many as the state requires me to have paperwork on.
"Aim small, miss small."
GIT R DUN
Its a shame he didnt shoot one of them dead.
The ragheads sell us their worn-out AKs and go buy brand new ones. Brilliant.
I'm glad the kid was trained (good for Dad), ready, and able, but I am really glad he did NOT have to shoot someone at his age. Scum or not, that is quite a burden for someone so young.
That kid deserves a steak dinner!!
Thanks, Dave!!
Absolutely!
Also, we are supposed to simply go cowering into hiding and grab the nearest phone and dial 911 (otherwise properly called Dial-A-Prayer) and patiently await the possibility of the police arriving (if at all) in a timely manner to scrape your bloodly carcasses off the floor.
Did anyone here notice what was wrong with the story? The handgun did not have its Mandatory, difficult to open gun-lock (which needs a special key and that key must also be locked up on a secure unknown location) on it AND it was easily accessible to a CHILD in the home!!!
The parents deserves to be punished with at least a 5 year imprisonment for this heinous crime of gun abuse and child neglect/endangerment!! /sarcasm off
This was at Najaf, while the Army was putting down the Al Sadr uprising. But the country is loaded with weaponry, because they are still looting caches which the old regime head away, and because new stuff is coming in from Iran and Syria.
Some crap, but, no, most of it was quite serviceable.
The must have seen that the kid knew how to use the weapon. You can tell by the way he holds it. Guns are great equalizers. Billy the Kid was a runt, his gun was as big as any man's.
new stuff is coming in from Iran and Syria.
Damn, one step forward, two steps back.
In the words of Bruce Willis: "Anyone else want to negotiate?"
I would put it the other way. The Army is determined to get this right. Now if Bush would get on board again.
not till after the rum runs dry...
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