Best story of the day. By far:

LAKE LYNN, Pa. — An 85-year-old great-grandmother from Lake Lynn, Fayette County kept an alleged burglar at bay using a .22-caliber pistol.

According to police, a 17-year-old suspect was attempting to burglarize Leda Smith overnight.That’s when Smith grabbed her gun and told the teen that she would shoot him if he moved, police said.”I had the gun on him before he turned around and said, ‘you’ve had it,’ ” Smith told Channel 11-News.According to police, Smith ordered the boy to dial 911 and then gave him some advice.”Dial 911 and don’t attempt to throw the phone at me, or do anything bad or i’ll just shoot you,” Smith said.When police arrived, they took the teen into custody.

That quote is the best thing about the whole story — other than the facts that 1) Mrs. Smith wasn’t hurt, and 2) these thugs are off the street. And I have absolutely zero doubt that she would have shot them, too.

Thank goodness for the Second Amendment. And Barry Oh wants to take away her right to protect herself in her own home with the weapon of her choosing (in this case it was a .22 caliber semi-automatic pistol, which Obama has stated that he wants to ban).

Just think of the horrendous things that those two young boys could have done to this innocent woman.

Sadly, those boys will probably be back out on the streets in a matter of weeks or months (if not days).

(h/t to Michelle Malkin, who writes, “Bitter. Clingy. And alive. You go, grandma!”

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 | Trackback |