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Elderly man fights off intruders, fatally shoots one of them
AP ^ | 12/7/2017 | AP

Posted on 12/08/2017 6:08:13 PM PST by mdittmar

Edited on 12/08/2017 6:40:36 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. (AP)

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: banglist; pennsylvania
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To: sparklite2

or....don’t answer your gun at night?


21 posted on 12/08/2017 6:51:39 PM PST by Fireone (Lock Her Up! (and 100 of her accomplices))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“If I were to tuck a pistol under my pillow, I would never be able to locate it, the way I toss and turn all night.”

Like me with the tv remote.


22 posted on 12/08/2017 6:52:57 PM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: Bonemaker

We must be related.


23 posted on 12/08/2017 6:53:38 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Fireone

When you’re that groggy, distinguishing between your gun and your phone, as this case showed, is in iffy thing. Better to not answer the phone at all. ;}


24 posted on 12/08/2017 6:53:53 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: Texas Fossil

“Don’t Pick a fight with an old man. If he’s too old to fight he’ll just kill you.”

Anonymous (me)


25 posted on 12/08/2017 6:54:01 PM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“We must be related”

At least in spirit if not in blood.


26 posted on 12/08/2017 6:56:55 PM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: mdittmar

“Mine is close.”

My problem is which of the 5 different ones do I go for.


27 posted on 12/08/2017 6:58:29 PM PST by Bonemaker (White Southerners have been under attack since 1860.)
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To: yarddog

I wonder if insurance covers bullet holes in the walls and ceiling.


28 posted on 12/08/2017 6:58:34 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Ken H

In my concealed carry class I was basically told that since I’m a short, 68 year old female, assume anyone coming towards me armed or not is a threat.


29 posted on 12/08/2017 7:09:10 PM PST by Mercat
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To: yarddog

I hope he recovers from his cancer.....and recovers his hearing.


30 posted on 12/08/2017 7:12:24 PM PST by Ben Hecks
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To: mdittmar

“Mine is close.”

Mine, are close.


31 posted on 12/08/2017 7:13:10 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Bonemaker

MY motto: Too old to fight
Too slow to run
That’s why I carry a gun.

Most “old guys” in their 70’s & 80’s have had military training and have no problem squeezing a trigger.


32 posted on 12/08/2017 7:23:56 PM PST by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2018!)
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To: mdittmar

Just down the road from me - friend from work lives there, surprised he didn’t know about it.


33 posted on 12/08/2017 7:26:19 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: mdittmar

I wonder what races those two robers are


34 posted on 12/08/2017 7:26:31 PM PST by Lee25
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To: Lee25

Don’t know first hand, but knowing the area a bit, likely white.


35 posted on 12/08/2017 7:31:52 PM PST by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Lee25

One is the dead race.


36 posted on 12/08/2017 7:36:10 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: blueplum

screw that, come in my house, with family, die period, who cares about the fake friggin law..they are dead your family is alive..correct outcome..if they are hungry come to my door in the day.. i would feed them


37 posted on 12/08/2017 7:40:21 PM PST by aces
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

agreed, dangerous under the pillow


38 posted on 12/08/2017 7:41:20 PM PST by aces
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To: Lee25

I think the 30-40 year, fat white guy is caucasian.


39 posted on 12/08/2017 7:43:12 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure)
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To: mdittmar

Two years ago I was awakened at 0430 to the sight and sound of two thugs trying to break in my motel room through the balcony glass slider. I grabbed my Glock 23, which was right next to the bed, and went to the slider. I pulled the curtain aside with one hand and let the barrel of my Glock rest against the glass. As soon as the thugs heard the barrel tap the glass and saw it pointed right at them they bolted so fast it was unbelievable. When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.


40 posted on 12/08/2017 7:44:56 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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