Posted on 04/11/2013 7:09:52 AM PDT by marktwain
Sandra Mize confronted an intruder breaking into her north Spokane home early Wednesday morning. She fired one shot in his direction and held him at gunpoint until officers arrived. Police arrested the man and said they do not believe it was his first burglary of the night.
Sandra Mize has a motto: "You don't get do-overs."
That's why the 63-year-old grandmother of 10 keeps a gun by her bed, a canister of mace in her living room, and reinforces the doors in her north Spokane home with deadbolt locks and metal jambs before she goes to sleep every night.
Her preparedness may have saved her life just after midnight Wednesday when she held off a burglar - at one point firing a wayward shot at the intruder - until police arrived.
Mize knows gun use and property crime are hotly debated issues. The break-in occurred nine days after a car thief was shot and killed by the car's owner about a mile away from her home.
"I could let my car drive down the block," Mize said. "That doesn't bother me. Someone in my home bothers me."
Mize was asleep in her single-story home along the 2000 block of East Dalton Avenue when she heard someone bust through her back door, bending her door braces and shattering the steel-paneled door's wooden frame.
She grabbed the .22-caliber handgun she keeps by her bed and ran into her dark living room to see the silhouette of a man in her kitchen.
Separated from the man by only a kitchen counter, Mize warned the intruder she was armed.
"He just kept coming," Mize said. "I didn't hesitate to shoot."
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Yeah, I am glad he’ll have some tangible reminders of that experience. She showed great (too much?) restraint against a dangerous intruder.
The police are trained to be terrified of anyone holding a gun, and are apparently incapable of telling the difference in an incident such as this from good guy and bad guy.
How common sense and practical would it be to instead announce their presence and ask the woman to lower her weapon’s muzzle when she sees them enter?
The police are simply trained to treat everyone as a hostile, because they place their own safety above that of everyone else.
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Great place! Woman shoots home intruder and guy kills car thief!
But the wording repeated in title and body is a bit misleading - I kept thinking she was protecting 10 grandchildren staying with her.
lol. I thought the same.
writing and reporting are a joke.
Why didn’t she just urinate or vomit on him? After all, that’s what the libs want the womenfolk to do for defense in rape. Should work equally well for home invasion (eyeroll).
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Nice story but they make it seem like she is some frail older type grandmother. 63 is hardly impressive protecting their home. Now if she were 88 then I would be impressed.
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These articles have great quotes about why you need a gun for self-defense. Pick them out, two from Granny and one from the police officer, and send them out to all.
Let the Left try to denigrate Granny and the Police this time.
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