North Carolina Teen Uses Rifle To Scare Off Three Intruders
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 5 months ago
SNOW CAMP, N.C. (WMFY) — A teenage girl is credited for scaring off intruders at her parents’ home with a rifle.
It happened on Lambe Road in Snow Camp around 12 p.m. Thursday.
Kirk Puckett, a spokesperson for the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, said two sisters, 12 and 13, were inside the home when they heard knocking on the front door.
Puckett said when they looked outside, they saw three unfamiliar men. He said the older sister grabbed her dad’s rifle.
The suspects then broke in through the back door. Puckett said the 13-year-old pointed the rifle at them, causing them to run away without taking anything.
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“There’s a school of thought where folks will say, ‘I’m armed, and if someone comes in my house someone is going to get shot or die,’” Puckett said. “There’s the other school of thought to retreat. Where someone would retreat out of another exit. Go into another room and barricade themselves.”
Wait! This is impossible. It doesn’t fit the narrative. According to the progressives, she should have shot herself because guns are more dangerous to the person wielding them than to the person at the end of the barrel. And she should have just waited around to be raped or killed. According to the progressives.
As for whether a person flees or fights, if you’re not in a confined space and have means of egress, evasion and escape, then it might pay to retreat (of course, while maintaining situational awareness), especially if you’re not in your own home. But the notion that one should just go hide in a closet or try to jump out of a window is profoundly bad counsel. Criminals can close the gap very quickly, and you just might hear that knock at the door to the closet, or jump into the arms of a rapist or murderer.
Get guns. Learn how to use them. This teenage girl managed to do just fine. And I don’t want to hear another damn word about how people who haven’t been trained in all of that LEO super-ninja stress control can’t defend themselves.
On July 26, 2016 at 11:18 am, Archer said:
Unpossible! Had this actually happened, the attacker would have taken the gun from the girl and used it against her.
So says every anti-freedom activist, so it must be true.
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On July 26, 2016 at 11:48 am, Fred said:
Good for them!
Of course, if she had pulled the trigger, the bullet would have hit her, then her sister, and then the arriving police. Whew, good thing she didn’t.
On July 27, 2016 at 7:17 am, UNCLEELMO said:
Yet another case of an armed citizen thwarting criminals without firing a shot.
Happens every day. And mainstream media ignores it every day. Which is why I ignore THEM!