Gramps 1, robber 0

[silversurfer]

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[mick silver]

i wish there was a link so i could post it and email it around .. thanks mick

[madfranks]

Here's a link:

http://www.mysuncoast.com/Global/story.asp?S=12499655

[1970 Silver Art]

It is getting crazier and crazier out there. If the safety function was not on that .22 rifle, then this would have been a totally different story. The score would have been Robber 1 Gramps 0 if the safety function was not on the gun.

[StackerKen]

yep. Good for grandpa.

Since it was just a .22, I would have put all ten rounds in the guy to make sure though.

[ximmy]

Career criminal's life cut short... tragic...

The man detectives say Harris shot during the attack has an extensive prison record going back to a four-year stretch for burglary in 1989, following by a six-year burglary sentence in 1993, according to Florida Department of Corrections records.

It is also not the first time Johnson beat an elderly person, according to FDOC records. He also received a five-year prison sentence coupled with the 1993 burglary conviction for battery on a person 65 years or older. Johnson had been out of prison since 2007 after serving three years behind bars for selling cocaine, according to records.


Read more: http://www.bradenton.com/2010/05/18/2293284/manatee-sheriff-resident-kills.html#ixzz0oKVlQDSf

[EE_]

Sounds like Ol Hosie stuck one in Johnson's noggin.

[k-os]

I don't want to ever shoot anyone. But if someone comes into my house with the intent to harm me, they are going to get shot. In October 2005, Florida became a "stand your ground" state.

Explained:

1. It establishes that law-abiding residents and visitors may legally presume the threat of bodily harm or death from anyone who breaks into a residence or occupied vehicle and may use defensive force, including deadly force, against the intruder.
2. In any other place where a person “has a right to be,” that person has “no duty to retreat” if attacked and may “meet force with force, including deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.”
3. In either case, a person using any force permitted by the law is immune from criminal prosecution or civil action and cannot be arrested unless a law enforcement agency determines there is probable cause that the force used was unlawful.
4. If a civil action is brought and the court finds the defendant to be immune based on the parameters of the law, the defendant will be awarded all costs of defense.