Rob Allen at Sharp as a Marble serves up a clip from Austin’s KXAN, showing a woman who successfully defended herself against a goblin who broke into her home shortly after she was dropped off by a friend.
A few points:
Allen says he was “…dismayed to see [the gun] stored in a cupboard…”
If that were me, and I was being interviewed on camera, with as much identifying information as KXAN gave, I wouldn’t show it in its usual hiding place, either.
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Citizen Burgos says she was attacked in her yard, and had to run inside to get her gun.
She’s lucky she was able to get inside to retrieve her weapon. This is a good argument for always carrying, but I’ll bet that up till now she’s thought a CHL class, and all the trouble you have to go through to exercise the license once you have it, seemed like more trouble than it was worth. I wonder if she’s changed her mind on that.
I also wonder if she knows about the petition to allow Open Carrry here in Texas.
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Um, I have more comments on her foresight, but I’m reluctant to publicly speculate any further on her security arrangements.
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Citizen Burgos reports she displayed her weapon, and Goblin Benavides didn’t back down and go away. In fact, he covered her mouth and was smothering her. She thinks she would have died without her gun.
Gb. Benavides says he wanted her cellphone.
So:
Mr. Goblin has essentially declared that her cell phone was worth a human life. He simply didn’t expect that it would be his own.
Raise your hand, all you folks declaring how “hot” Ct.Burgos is, who think Gb. Benavides would have been satisfied with the phone, if she hadn’t been able to stop him.
(I’m also very disturbed by the timing of this attack– Gb. B. came over the fence just as Burgos came home at three o’clock in the morning. It’s hard not to think that he knew her schedule, and was lying in wait for her. More trouble than a cell-phone would have been worth, I’d think.)
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We often talk of “first responders”, meaning cops, firemen, and EMTs. In this case, Ct. Burgos was her own “first responder”, and that’s the way it should always be.
With this action, she shows herself to be a member in good standing of the “militia” the Second Amendment refers to.
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Oh, and I take issue with KXAN referring to her as an “attack victim”.
She most certainly was not a victim, but a victor, a title she is able to claim solely because she was armed, and was willing to use deadly force to defend herself.
I also take issue with KXAN’s claim that she “credited” her gun with her survival. Not too harshly, because I see what they mean, but the credit is all to her.
Tools get neither credit nor blame; only the hand that wields them deserve that.