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Digest Friday, May 28, 2010

To Keep and Bear Arms

An 80-year-old Army veteran and his wife were in their Chicago home when a robber entered the house.
After seeing the armed intruder enter, the homeowner shot and killed the suspect after both exchanged gunfire.
This was after the same man was robbed at gunpoint just a couple of months ago and decided to buy a gun.
Because they live in a neighborhood where robberies are common, the community praised the couple for their self-defense (and for getting rid of another criminal), saying that it's a good thing they had a gun, or they may have been killed.
Neither the homeowner nor his wife was hurt.
Currently, however, Chicago has a statute that prohibits the possession of any handgun.
A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the legality of the firearm used by the homeowner is imminent.
Yet prominent Chicago attorney Joel Brodsky has already offered to take up the case and represent the Army veteran pro bono if the courts decide to prosecute him. Brodsky says, "Self-defense isn't just a right, it's a duty.
If this man is prosecuted for saving his own life, it's not just a travesty, it's justice turned inside out."

[This case could turn out like the one in England, as to the Gun Issue, I surely hope not, it is far and away past the time to recognize that a Citizen has not only the Right but the Responsibility to have a firearm in his Home for the purpose of self protection. For far to long the Rights of the Criminal have gone to the advantage of the Bad Guys leaving the Law abiding Citizen out in the cold, it is time to remedy this, and realize it was not the gun that put Jim Brady in a wheel chair it was the Shooter.]

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