Phoenix boy, 14, shoots armed intruder while watching three younger siblings

[Boom_70]

In Ct the parents would have been arrested for leaving the kids alone:

"A 39-year-old woman was arrested for leaving her children at home unattended, police said.

According to Sgt. Ogrinc, the department received a call from an adult female on Country Club Road West who stated that a 4-year-old girl that lived across the street wandered into her yard alone. When police arrived, they found three other children—ages 13, 10 and 1 1/2—in the home. Police later contacted their mother Rebecca Young, who was at church.

Young told police that she left the home at 1:30 p.m., but a babysitter was due to arrive at 2 p.m. The call, however, came into the department at 1:24 p.m., according to police. Young was charged with risk of injury to a minor and released on a PTA. She is scheduled to appear on court on May 29."

 

[93Devil]

Good on him, but home invasions are virtually never random crimes.

I agree, but the former owners of Wolrd of Mirth in Richmond probably disagree.

 

[imjustagirl]

Good on him, but home invasions are virtually never random crimes.

I agree, but the former owners of Wolrd of Mirth in Richmond probably disagree.

And this.

Boom: 13-year-olds can't babysit? shirt, I was watching my brother, who was 5, when I was 10. That's insane.

 

[Boom_70]

Good on him, but home invasions are virtually never random crimes.

I agree, but the former owners of Wolrd of Mirth in Richmond probably disagree.

And this.

Boom: 13-year-olds can't babysit? shirt, I was watching my brother, who was 5, when I was 10. That's insane.

Agreed - it's ridiculous. Arrest caused a big stir in town and back lash against the police and neighbor who dropped a dime on the poor lady.

 

[ChrisC]

Props to the dad on this one! Btw, found it on USA Today too; I guess outlets aren't too PC to report on this one.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Just have to say, the notion that newsrooms are "too PC" to report in incidents when people successfully defend themselves from intruders is almost too comical for words.

 

[Double J]

Good on him, but home invasions are virtually never random crimes.

Also probably not random that Pops had a gun and the kid knew where it was and how to use it. Something tells me there was something in the house besides the young'uns that dear old dad was trying to keep secure.

Orrrr... The father philosophically believes in owning guns for self-defense and home protection, properly trained his children in the event of an emergency and was rewarded in a crisis.

Is teaching your children to shoot intruders really a hallmark of responsible parenting (or responsible gun ownership, for that matter)?

It's a compulsory course at the University of Zagoshe.

 

[Batman]

14 isn't that young. i had learned to shoot a gun by that age, probably a few years earlier.

Little Jimmy was doing hits for mob bosses at 14

heck most my friends back home were going gopher hunting well before that age. Mind you, that's out in the country, not in suburbia.

Likewise, this is in the country, but my nephew shot his first deer (with some help from his dad) at age 3. I think he got the first one on his own last year at age 5.
We also run hunting pictures in our paper that are almost all children, most of them younger than 12.

 

[KJIM]

Wow, my parents would have been jailed. By the time my sister was 13 and I was 10, we'd been being left along for years. My younger sister would have been 5 and my brother 8 at that time.

We'd get home, then walk a mile along the highway (or through the woods, depending) to the Suwanee Swifty for a candy fix. Good times.

Things have changed. Some are better, some are not.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Good on him, but home invasions are virtually never random crimes.

Also probably not random that Pops had a gun and the kid knew where it was and how to use it. Something tells me there was something in the house besides the young'uns that dear old dad was trying to keep secure.

Orrrr... The father philosophically believes in owning guns for self-defense and home protection, properly trained his children in the event of an emergency and was rewarded in a crisis.

Is teaching your children to shoot intruders really a hallmark of responsible parenting (or responsible gun ownership, for that matter)?

well if the alternative is they'll get shot what do you think.

You have to weigh the odds of your children facing a violent home invasion versus accidentally shooting each other while playing with daddy's gun.

Unless you're living in Kabul, I would argue that the latter is far more likely.

(And this doesn't even begin to consider the argument that children injecting a weapon into a violent home invasion makes themselves more likely to be killed than if they had complied).

Would you rather the kid not be prepared or know what to do just in case something did happen while the parents were away from home?

 

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[KJIM]

Is that one of the Jolie-Pitt kids? Or do those boys all have Mohawks?