Exercising the Right
Repeat Offender
MLive.com reported on September 21 about two men who broke in to a Jackson, Michigan, home but were stopped by an armed homeowner. Richard Snyder, the homeowner, was home alone when two men broke down his front door. One of the intruders was a 27-year-old who had previously been convicted of home invasion and was actually on parole at the time of the incident. Snyder retrieved a firearm and prepared to defend himself. Court records show that one of the men charged into the house and ran at Snyder, who shot the burglar in the abdomen. At the sound of the shot being fired, the other accomplice ran from the house. The homeowner called 911, and police arrived to discover that the front door was knocked off its hinges. The injured suspect was still at the scene and was taken for medical treatment. He is expected to survive. The other suspect fled but was apprehended near the home by authorities. The investigation revealed that Snyder had been the victim of an earlier break-in, which prompted him to prepare himself with a rifle, but police do not believe the suspects in the current case had anything to do with the prior crime. Michigan state law allows for the use of deadly force to prevent “imminent death or great bodily harm” to oneself or others and there is “no duty to retreat.”
Chill Out
The Augusta Chronicle reported out of Augusta, Georgia, on September 12 about an intruder who was fatally shot while trying to enter a house after pushing out an air conditioner that was placed in a window. The resident of the house, 69-year-old Joseph Patterson, told investigators that the suspect tried kicking open the front door before setting his sights on the air conditioning unit. The intruder apparently deduced that it would be easier to enter the house by knocking the air conditioner out of place and climbing through the opening instead of kicking the front door down. As the intruder pushed the air conditioning unit in through the window, Patterson grabbed his handgun and aimed it at the window. When the suspect crawled into the house, Patterson shot him. He died at the scene.
The American Female Gun Owner
The Guardian reported out of Maryland on September 21 about the type of women who might own guns, and featured profiles of various female gun owners. The article reported on a recent survey that found that gun ownership among women is on the rise. The research from a soon-to-be-released landmark study by Northeastern University and the Harvard School of Public Health revealed that of gun owners who only own handguns, “43% are women and nearly a quarter of those women live in urban areas.”
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