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Full title: " ‘He started crying like a little baby’: 11-year-old brags about shooting suspected home invader"

Good boy! Smart parents that they were teaching him how and when to use a gun.

1 posted on 05/01/2016 12:03:51 PM PDT by Innovative
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Oddly written story. I suspect the journalist was conflicted about the tale.


2 posted on 05/01/2016 12:05:45 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats are mean-spirited racists who don't care about our children.)
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He defended his home against an armed intruder with a gun, by using a gun.

To the Bezos Liberals running the Wash Post, this is HORRIFYING!

The kid should have ALLOWED himself to be shot by the intruder to further the Dems gun confiscation memes!


3 posted on 05/01/2016 12:06:41 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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As Tom Cheney in True Grit stated, “I’ve been shot by a child!”


4 posted on 05/01/2016 12:09:46 PM PDT by taterjay
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...Good boy! Smart parents that they were teaching him how and when to use a gun....

I read this story in a British newspaper yesterday. Their version of the story ended with, “No word on why an 11 year old had easy access to the gun...”

I guess the two sentences above answer the question for the British who just don’t get it.


5 posted on 05/01/2016 12:10:58 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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More comments on the article posted earlier...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3426363/posts


6 posted on 05/01/2016 12:11:55 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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Posted earlier.


9 posted on 05/01/2016 12:16:37 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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1. Good that the boy shot his intruder.
2. Bad he needed (and got) so much facetime, making it easy for a revenge robbery in the future. Why is an 11 year old child being front paged like this? Mom too media-hungry to say no?
3. Boy shot 12 rounds, only making ONE hit? Enroll him in Target Practice, asap.
4. Notice the actual criminal is NOT photographed or even named.


10 posted on 05/01/2016 12:17:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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The moral of the story is, stay the hell out of the homes of other people. Contrary to what the DemocRATS have been preaching, their belonging DO NOT belong to you. Unlike the liberal snowflakes, when somebody says, I’m going to kill you, I’m going to shoot them first. It’s just the natural thing to do.


11 posted on 05/01/2016 12:19:13 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If SCOTUS is really so fair and unbiased, why is it a campaign issue about who is on it?)
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Stepdad was clearly doing a good job educating the kid — he knew the difference between a “hollow point” and a full metal jacket bullet. I’d recommend the parents replace the FMJ bullets in the home defense weapons with hollow points — it could make a difference in the outcome of a firefight with an armed intruder.


17 posted on 05/01/2016 12:29:34 PM PDT by House Atreides (TRUMP or CRUZ --- The 1st one to get to 1237 gets the Nomination Brass Ring...PERIOD)
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“Lots of strange weird stuff in this story.”

My guess is the mom was doing the horizontal bop with the “burglar.”

5.56mm


18 posted on 05/01/2016 12:30:16 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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Good boy -good step dad. My father started teaching me to shoot at 3, of course he had to balance the Daisy for me:) All kids should understand and be able to handle firearms. Great story, great outcome, although junior needs practice - his aim is atrocious.


19 posted on 05/01/2016 1:05:43 PM PDT by CelesteChristi
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Not only was Chris holding a real gun, the boy knew how to use it. His stepfather had been giving him shooting lessons, he told WVTM-TV.

Good man. Excellent way to bond with a step-son and at the same time give him skills to protect himself and others.

The title of the article is complete BS. The boy is not bragging about shooting a suspected home invader. He is simply describing how he was able to defend himself and avoid being a victim to an armed home invader.

It is like the author of the article would have been much happier writing an article entitled "Defenseless Boy Shot and Killed By Armed Home Invader."

24 posted on 05/01/2016 1:45:02 PM PDT by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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Good boy. Bad reporter.


26 posted on 05/01/2016 1:54:14 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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From his own story, he has let his mouth get him in trouble. From his own mouth, the guy was running away from him when he started firing for effect. Hence no longer an immediate threat. Plus, judging from the picture, the reporter got him on television tape doing what the reporter or headline writer described as bragging. If he was in Florida, he would at least be heading to Juvenile Court. If he would have shot him while he was still in the house, possibly advancing toward him, it would be a horse of a different color.
32 posted on 05/01/2016 2:43:54 PM PDT by sport
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Some say he was running away outside which wouldn’t make it a lawful shoot, right?


35 posted on 05/01/2016 3:02:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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I agree that the parents were awesome to teach him to shot a gun. But back to the gun range. It took 12 tries to get him. The NRA should give him free lessons.


39 posted on 05/01/2016 4:39:07 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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