No, no, NO.
This is all wrong. Tragic, almost.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Police are investigating what happened during a home burglary that left the suspect dead and neighbors in shock.
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Smith said the man, confronted a woman as she was carrying groceries into her home shortly before 1 p.m. The man forced her inside and tied her and her son up. Smith said the woman was able to loosen the binding and free her son, who got his father's revolver from a security box beneath a bed.
As the man tried to break into the room where the two were and threatened to kill them both, the teen fired a shot through the door and hit the intruder in the head, Smith said.
This is really not excusable behavior. You aim for the center of mass, child: center of mass - especially if you're shooting through a door. Save head shots for the Playstation.
(Via Glenn)
Moe
[UPDATE]: I offer the traditional blogospheric "Welcome, Instapundit readers!" and will readily agree that the teenager may have been aiming for the center of mass all along.
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don't reload...then you can't say...it was passion it was fear...
but good for him! The Grand Jury now only gets one story.
He and his mom are alive and the intruder is dead. Game over. Let the police teach him about targeting center mass and just applaud him on his (must emphasize) LUCKY shot.
"Always be honest with yourself even if you are honest with no one else...
...It helps you keep track of your lies..."
--Myself
Of course, he may well have been aiming for the middle. That's why they teach that.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
But also all joking aside, this wasn't really a critique of the kid (who after all got the most important thing right, on very short notice).
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
Applaud his Lucky shot and emphasize "lucky" and make sure he gets proper shooting lessons...
"Always be honest with yourself even if you are honest with no one else...
...It helps you keep track of your lies..."
--Myself
The head shot left the bad guy dead. If he had aimed for the larger target, the guy may have lived to sue them into poverty for "unreasonable use of force" or some such. But then this was TEXAS so maybe that kind of thing doesn't happen.
that headshots do 2.5x more damage! I bet the kid had a wallhack to see through the door...
This is unbelievable! I want to know who is responsible for letting a story like this actually hit the media? Don't they know that guns dont actually save lives and protect people? They are inatimate killers that just target innocent people, not unlike SUVs! Just ask Kellerman!
This story should have been spiked! Someone get Ted Turner on the line...
Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. -Ronald Reagan
If this kid cusses like a frat boy tied to a fire ant hill, I think I might have bumped into him..
Seriously now, the kid got kinda lucky with that shot, and I really hope as he grows up no one gives him grief over killing the guy.
...hitting what you aim at. :)
"I could explain, but that would be very long, very convoluted, and make you look very stupid. Nobody wants that... except maybe me."
dixie68
What a beautiful story. May I congratulate the young fella who did what he had to do to protect his mom and his home. Would love to think my own children (two girls) would be able to think that quickly.
One Shot... One Kill. Military in his future?
Either way, pretty good crackshot.
"I could explain, but that would be very long, very convoluted, and make you look very stupid. Nobody wants that... except maybe me."
Two things. It's a magazine not a clip, and anyway the gun was a revolver. According to police the kid shot the intruder through "a crack in the door" as the guy tried to force it open. Sounds like a clear sight picture and close range to me....though maybe he was shooting for center of mass in the approved fashion. In any case...
"Nice shootin' Tex!"
Wow - that's scary! I can relate somewhat... The neighborhood around my campus is not really the best, and I totally worry about people breaking into my roomate's and my apartment.
2. Learn to use it.
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I know that mom is proud of her son as I would be, he did what every good kid would do and that is protect his family at all costs. God I love America.
Peace through superior fire power:)
who didn't sentence the scumbag to a longer stretch on his last offense.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Good for him. And the security box the gun was in means that it will be harder for the anti-gun crowd to paint this as a some sort of "lucky accident" as opposed to what it looks like: responsible gun ownership.
Maybe the criminal was just shirt!
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Texas Child Kills Visitor with Pistol
Not a Pistol, that would have to be a Cop-Killing Military-Style Assault Rifle.
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"I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more I have of it." -- Thomas Jefferson
Gun kills man in Texas home
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If you're seeing shades of gray, it's because you're not looking close enough to see the black and white dots.
...and this was perhaps the best possible outcome, here's hoping the kid gets some support after the fact. Generally, when you shoot someone, you trade an immediate problem (your life-and-death safety) for a set of different problems: the inevitable second-guessing, post-trauma stress, and the rest of the impact killing a human being, however justified, has one you.
I woulda done the same thing (tho I'm trained to tap a few rounds into my targets) and I'm glad I didn't have to.
A ship in the harbor is safe
but that is not what ships are built for
I believe the kid and his family should be safe from lawsuits because I believe Texas is one of the states that adopted the castle doctrine legislation started by Florida.
Use the whole clip. That's what you have it for.