Two lessons to be learned from this story:
1) There is nothing more dangerous and frightening than a woman defending the lives of her children, and
2) Don’t mess with Texans
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BLUE MOUND, Texas — When two gunmen smashed through the glass front door of her suburban Fort Worth home, Kellie Hoehn didn’t think twice.
The 34-year-old mother of two grabbed a shotgun that had been pointed at her face early Wednesday, starting a struggle that ended with one intruder killed with his own weapon and another in the hospital.
“I wasn’t going to let them get to my babies,” she said, recalling the moment when she pushed up the muzzle of the shotgun, pointing it away from her children’s rooms.
Although the intruders told her to keep quiet, she screamed for her husband. She told her 12-year-old son, who was awakened by the sound of the shattering glass front door, to get his 5-year-old sister and hide.
“It was like a horror movie,” her husband, 32-year-old Keith Hoehn, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “I thought I was a dead man. We’re fighting for our lives.”
With Kellie Hoehn clinging to the weapon’s muzzle, her husband tackled the man who held the shotgun. She knocked the intruder in the head with a jar candle, giving her husband a chance to wrest the shotgun.
By then the tussle had spilled out onto the front lawn. Keith Hoehn shot one of the men who had a pistol, police said. Wounded, that man ran away.
Then the intruder who initially had the shotgun charged Keith Hoehn.
Kellie Hoehn told The Dallas Morning News that she screamed at her husband, “Shoot him, shoot him, shoot him.”
Her husband fired the shotgun and the man fell to the ground. Then the shot man lunged a second time.
“Well, I shot him again, and I guess that was it,” Keith Hoehn said.
Dakota Scott Benoit, 20, of Richland Hills, was pronounced dead at a hospital. John Garland Pierson, 25, of Haltom City, was in critical condition and in police custody at the hospital.
“I am not happy that someone is dead,” Kellie Hoehn said. “But I am glad that my family is alive.”
Police said Pierson was shot in the left arm and the bullet pierced his diaphragm and other organs but his condition was improving. He will face charges of burglary of habitation with intent to commit another felony, police said.
Investigators say the couple were just defending their family and probably won’t be charged.
I’m glad nobody in the family was hurt. I’m glad that one of the thugs is dead. I only wish that the other thug was killed too.
Now the fine folks of Texas (me) will have to pay for his trial and his lengthy (hopefully) incarceration.
Which is why, when shooting intruders — especially those who would point guns at your children — always shoot to kill. And if you don’t on the first shot — shoot again. And again if necessary.
If Keith Hoehn had another shot at the other guy, Im sure he would be dead too. Kudos to the Hoehn family for standing up for themselves. I bet the thugs were a couple of damn meth freaks. Did they at least get to keep the shotgun?
The rule is this. You know you have fired one shot too many, when the last shot’s entry and exit, align perfectly with the hole in the floor.
There is no further paperwork for firing more than once.
Personally, I prefer double-taps, and a mozambique technique if I have enough light, and can see clearly what is behind the suspect.
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There was some case where a divorced woman with a 6 year old daughter runs into someone she went to high school with and hadn’t seen in 10 years. They chat briefly and she goes on her way. That evening, he barges his way into her home, locks the little girl in a closet and ties up and rapes the mother. He then tells her he is going to rape the child. She manages to get lose, get to the kitchen, grab a knife and stab him. She manages to call 911 and then the guy attacks her again, both she and the rapist get stabbed. When the police arrive they find her seriously injured and the rapist dead in the yard and the little girl unharmed. I’m not doing the story justice because I am relying on memory, but there was a knock down drag out fight between the mom and the evil.
First instinct, always assume they are going to kill you. Second instinct, kill them first.
See, as a liberal, I haven’t got a problem with this story.
Criminals come to invade your personal property armed to the teeth, you wrestle a gun off them and shoot as they attack – seems fair to me.
The only point I’d make Robbie is that you’d prefer to see the criminals dead so you don’t have to pay for a trial? You should know this isn’t a one off case, and you should know that with every dead criminal, there’s two of three more to fill their shoes.
You never seem to want to address the cause of why these young (20 years old for gods sakes!) people are turning to crime. There must to something wrong with a society that breeds such a high number of juvenile delinquents.
Simply killing them day after day almost makes it acceptable. You seem to be happy to have part of your society make up being the fact that killing criminals is OK. I’d find it hard to live in such a society. To me, that’s a few steps down into a pretty dark spiral.
Jonny
A snotty Brit lecturing us on how we raise children? Nice.
And I’m sure yobbos and chavs are just a localized version of Rotarians.
Hey we got massive problems over here, but it’s a different type of crime. Our crime is predominantly due to alcohol. Serious problems of scum bags cashing their benefits and getting leathered on a friday night, pulling out a knife and attacking/killing innocent by standers.
It happened just around the corner from where I live STORY HERE
The crime Robbie posted about is about possessional gain. Young kids with no future robbing innocent people for possessions and money (probably to support a drug habit). Being America, they go in heavily armed and if confronted, there’s nearly always a death whether it be the poor innocents or the scum bag criminals.
My point is, your society (headed by an inept government) is supporting it – well, there not doing anything about it are they?
Same over here.
My government support these uneducated dropouts by paying them money from MY taxes. They take this money, give nothing in the way of support to their families and spend it all on a drunken night out.
I do have an answer of course. On this side of the water, we need to pay these scumbags tokens. That’s a weeks token for food, a weeks token for clothes, and a weeks token for looking after the myriad of babies they see fit to have. These tokens are of minimal value and are not exchangeable for money. The tokens are to be exchanged for goods through government departments, not independent stores. This way, a tender can be issued every three or four years and awarded to the best value tenderer.
It’ll save me money, and it will force these dropouts to get a job. Drinking beer with their OWN money will soon sober them up!
In your situation, you need to look at the family unit. Kids giving birth to kids, no education and a horrible circle of taking what’s not yours to survive.
You have one of the most class ridden societies on earth (something we mostly got rid of after the Raj). You have literally zero integration in states such as Texas and this all leads to a them and us situation. Those who have, and those who want.
Now, you can carry on killing these criminals all you want, but your state and your country won’t be getting any better soon.
You need a government to look at education. Look at a future after education and look at teaching kids self respect.
With the republicans, you have a government looking after their own.
Jonny
Jonny, I’m going to tell you something, and remember this, 10 years from now, 20 years from now and so on.
I can assure you that my outlook on life and my resulting politics have changed every decade of my life. I can assure you that the same will be true for you.
In the 60’s, I heard about this guy called John F. Kennedy and I was a school kid, and he was young, and he could speak in a language we could understand and we loved him, but we were kids and we loved somebody who was a hero type.
In the 70’s I was young and newly married and had a child. We had war. Husband served in Viet Nam. We were struggling…our child was sick a lot and money was a big problem, but we both worked hard and paid our bills and sacrificed. We dug money out of the car seats. NOBODY helped us. But, we paid for welfare queens thanks to LBJ.
In the 80’s we had a high school kid, as a result of our hard work and sacrifice we started to move up in life, we bought a house WITH 20% DOWNPAYMENT, we PAID for our daughter to go to college cause as a result of our hard work we didn’t qualify for a grant, we were white so didn’t qualify for affirmative action; in short we started to PAY dearly for our hard work.
In the 90’s we paid 38% of our income in income taxes alone, not counting property taxes, sales taxes, social security taxes, medicare taxes, the list goes on .. I’m sure it was well over 50%. We both had good jobs. We had paid off our house loan so we had no income tax deductibles other than state taxes so we even lost those due to the alternative minimum tax. I started getting real pissed.
In the early 2000’s, my husband died. Not one cent of his fucking social security taxes he had paid was available to me or his daughter. All of it went to “others” outside my family. By this time I was financially independent and we had some investments but I had to pay inheritance taxes to the fucking State of Kansas, not federal, because Bush had changed the death tax structure but Kansas like several states, kept the old inheritance tax schedule. I also had to hire an expensive lawyer and accountant to figure all this crap out.
It is now 2008 and Obama wants to take what I have worked for and give it to drug abusers or people who WON’T get off their asses and work or who borrowed money for houses they knew they couldn’t afford.
Well, I’m a bit older and a bit smarter and I’m not gonna let that happen. If he is elected, I will open a business doomed to failure while I take trips to England to write off my expenses searching for antiques. I’m gonna give my daughter “gifts” every year so that when I die she won’t have to pay inheritance taxes. I’m going to quit my consulting job and live below the limit Obama has set for retirees to pay taxes.
See a pattern here, Jonny? Remember this when you’re past your idealistic years and start realizing what’s really going on with those politicians who promise HOPE and CHANGE.
Jonny, your entire last post is so liberal, so ignorant, so fucking stupid, I don’t even know where to begin. But I will begin. I’ll hold the get off your brother jokes for another post, you actually wrote something with substance and God knows, your a persistent person.
Young kids with no future robbing innocent people for possessions and money What in the fuck is this shit? I get my self up and go to work every day and I have done so every day since 1975. Every day that I chose to do so. Every one. You understand that? I did this without a single government check (except the 4 years in the Navy, that was in Jimma’s day and I got no VA benefits) or handout and all but the last 12 years on just a High School Education. I love this country and I have had a fantastic life. Just fantastic. I chose a future. Others choose being shot by a homeowner.
we got massive problems over here, but it’s a different type of crime. What the fuck is this even dumber shit? Your criminals are some special type? Maybe they need more tokens! Just give to the taxman until you have no reason left to give and maybe your special criminals will sober up and get a job! Yeah!
exchanged for goods through government departments, not independent stores. Who on earth is your ‘government’????You must have had the heel of the Man’s boot on your neck your entire lifetime, have no concept of freedom. When your tax money disappears into the blue, some special criminal is getting a token and staying special.
You need a government to look at education. Look at a future after education and look at teaching kids self respect.You need to understand the purpose of our education. It is not to indoctrinate, make industrial robots or feed a teachers union. The purpose of our system is to allow each Citizen to have the knowledge and ability to participate in society if he or she chooses to do so. To be Freemen. It comes directly from the European excesses of church and government needing peasants. Read Jefferson. You would be amazed. I taught my kids self respect, not dependency. see ya later jonjon, there has to be a decent ballgame on by now………..
ouch, Dianne, we musta been bored at the same time…
Dang Dianne and Artruen, y’all are on a roll.
Excellent explano, both of you.
I commend you both for being excellent examples of true Americans, the type of Americans who make this country work.
I quit reading his comments last weekend, as he either refuses to, or is incapable of, understanding how conservatives view our country.
This video exemplifies what is wrong with his government, the leftist labour party view, and the future of that island nation, if they don’t soon embrace conservative values.
It’s not called Londonistan for no good reason.
A friend and fellow bar owner was murdered a few days ago. Two girls, 15 and 19, attacked a 75-year-old man at his home. They stabbed him to death, stole $15 from him, and left him to be founf the next morning by his neihbor.
The girls were driven and supplied with knives by the youngest’s mother.
This isn’t the first time they’ve been a burden to society. But instead of actual punishment for their past crimes, a few months of probation only allowed them to continue their thug-lifestlyes.
It’s hard for me to not wish those three had been killed that night. They’re cowards and simply don’t deserve to live. They’ll be tried for capital murder. Our community lost a great man. Now I have to support these horrible women for the rest of their pathetic lives.
Hold on a second here guys.
Dianne, I fully respect your point of view on this – for f*cks sake you’ve obviously lived though more of this shit than I have!
I would be a prick* to suggest I know more than you (*prick being a pretty dire know-nothing) .
I am of my age (33) and I am now into the realm of actually listening and comprehending my elders.
First of all, I seriously wish you no disrespect in my previous post. That comes from the bottom of my heart.
Second; my understanding is that a more liberal government would have a better outcome for you, and your fellow citizens in the US.
With all you have stated from your husband being part of the vietnam war through to the injustice you received after, am I wrong in saying this was from a republican government?
With what you have stated Dianne, I do not wish to start an argument with you as I fully respect your knowledge and social knowledge on this – you know far more than I do as you have seen it first hand.
I also respect you graciousness in giving me the time of day to realise I am younger and more inexperienced than you.
In fact, at this point, I would rather hear from you than for me to give me you my comments.
I fully respect your effort in the last post and I would ask you to tell me more of why you feel a republican government would be better for you than that of a liberal, democratic leadership.
In total sincerity, I totally respect you opinion on this.
Jonny
To Artruen; I fully respect your opinion on this.
To put you in the picture, I own my own business that has gone from 1£105k in the first year to £520k in the 3rd.
That’s hard work.
I admire my own work but I am a realist. We cannot simply cut the hypothetical umbilical cord on these drop outs.
Don’t get me wrong, my innate consciousness tells me to do this left right and centre!
However, we are to far gone over here. We need to get these drop outs BACK into society; not ignore them, or consider them lower class.
They need to be a part of the society I live in – and likewise for you.
We can go on until you and I are long gone in this space we call life, having a big fat chip on our shoulders, but I’d prefer to be constructive in giving an option- a realistic option!
Kid gloves? No way! These guys need to realise what life is all about, and that comes from a governing body.
Get these people out to work! Make them understand that they can’t have kids just because their neighbours have them!
I am all for that.
Jonny
Jonny’s posts make me even more thankful for brave people like:
Nathan Hale
Patrick Henry
Samuel Adams
Paul Revere
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
and so on…
Notice how he hijacks every thread ?
Steve,
Add Corporal Tomos Stringer to your list.
KW, sure sorry to hear about your friend. That mother raised a den of vipers. He probably would have given them the money, if they needed it that bad.
Jonny – no offense taken.
Your question about who was in power during all I mentioned is a valid point. LBJ was the author of numerous radical programs to ” help the poor” which in essence led us into a welfare state for 30 years. During that time, society changed dramatically. Most people now view those changes as negative because they resulted in tearing down the traditional 2-parent family structure, discouraged work, increased crime, negatively affected our education system and cost a bundle, all paid for by the working taxpayer. Bill Clinton and a Republican Congress finally ended the welfare handouts by enacting a welfare to work program, but many of the negative consequences of the welfare state are still with us today.
Recommended reading: http://www.andrewbernstein.net/
Check out some of the articles on that website.
I had a good read through that site Dianne – some pretty interesting articles on there.
May I, by way of reciprocating, recommend a wonderful book by Clive James called Cultural Amnesia.
You can read extracts from it HERE
Jonny
Jonny, I am sorry but you need to say at least something reasonable before I will be led to read anything you offer. Dianne writes well, and is amazingly tolerant of your writing style. After a certain age, and accumulation of responsibilities, you begin to become more picky in your selection of reading materials. You see your mortality all the better and realize you can’t read everything. Conservatives in the U.S. dominate the production of good ideas, while the left wallows in petty posturing, running a rear guard action on ideas war. They offer nothing beautiful, innovative, or genuinely promising, as if they truly cannot see the battles they have long ago lost. Only solild ideas can win the day in politics. The idealistically bankrupt Left can only win when the Right stumbles, drops the ball for a time.
Note, I am politically as liberal as the day is long. That does not mean I am a socialist or leftist by any means. Read a little more and get some history under your belt. You obviously have passion, but I don’t see how it serves you to just spend it as you do. You will be old before you know it. Learn some prudence soon. You cannot create the right to plunder others via taxation, or beyond that which goes strictly to a public good. And I would be VERY hesitant to consider public school a public good of any sort.