Actually, the outrageous goings-on in D.C. more accurately demonstrate the need for 2A, which is about defending our lives, property, wealth, liberty and freedom from any force intent on depriving us of these things.

Good for the 12-year-old girl. She did the right thing.

This young lady is from Oklahoma on the Texas boarder. Kids in those parts know how to safely handle firearms. Her mother gave her good advice...get the gun and hide in the closet. When the perp turned the knob boom! she shoots him through the door. The gun must have been a .357 magnum because the bullet went through the door, the perp and then the wall! Apparently from what can be had from the article the perp was not seriously injured as he was treated in the hospital and released to police custody. Another example of a crime thwarted by someone exercising her God given right to self defense.

If every adult in the theater in Colorado had been carrying do you think more or less than 12 people would have been killed? I think a lot less. As one Lucianne poster once wrote "If more sane people were armed, the crazy people would get off fewer shots." how true! Thank God for our 2nd Amendment right I just wish more citizens would exercise that right.

God bless this dear child.

Thursday night I was staying at the double Tree Motel in Johnson City, TN. When entering the restaurant there I saw the "no guns allowed" sign on the door. I turned around and went somewhere else for dinner. Yes, I was armed. That sign says to me, ok bad guys, come in this place to rob and kill. No one in here can defend themselves.

Liberals and Democrats (is that an oxymoron) don't have IQ's high enough to know that gun laws do not keep guns out of the hands of criminals. They can buy them everywhere outside the law such as illegal gun sellers, out of the trunk of a car, etc.

Can any Liberal who thinks they are intelligent explain how to stop those gun sales? When they solve that problem then talk to me about my legal gun. Until then, SHUT UP!

Meanwhile the "family gun" is tagged and bagged in the evidence locker at the courthouse where it will stay until next August . There is no Question that it was used correctly and probably saved a life. It should have been unloaded and passed back to Dad with a nice "thanks for your help" from the Chief of Police. This family may not ever see their gun again. This is called taking guns off the street.

Here's a link to the article from Durant: http://www.newson6.com/story/19858704/12-year-old-girl-shoots-intruder-during-home-invasion

#7, I wouldn't take bets that the gun has been confiscated. I grew up in that part of the world [Lake Texoma area], and that's a different breed of people down there, different kind of law. Not your typical NYC or LA police force.

Comments after the article are just what I would expect.

Regarding the "family gun" being taken for evidence.

The gun has "fulfilled its destiny." So many guns live out their full existence without ever being called on to save a life or defend a cause.

The family can, and probably will, acquire a new "family gun." Perhaps some of their friends, or even the NRA, can help with the selection and purchase. The girl herself should receive recognition from the police, and range-time for life at a local range.

Too bad she did not have an opportunity to aim for his head or heart. If she had it might ultimately have been harder on her than the way it turned out but society would have certainly been better off.

#8 the law is what we call 'regular law', not the law in DC or NYC. Damn right they'll get their gun back and the local Rotary Club will have the girl and her father to receive an award at their next lunch meeting.

#5, if I had a restaurant, I would have a sign stating "CCW welcome". With regard to the gun being taken as evidence, they will give it back after the case is completely closed out. That is what they normally do.

I doubt seriously the Glock .40 was taken into custody. Both the deputies and the District Attorney praised the young girl for her actions.
Hate to think what would have happened if this happened on the Left Coast or in the NE part of the country!
Mom would be in jail for letting a minor use a pistol. The young girl would be in custody of the juvenile bureau. The thug would be back on the street with a civil suit against the family.

Excellent gun control.

This is where tort reform is critical. In Texas, the perp can no longer sue the home owner if he is in the act of committing a crime. If the perp is killed while committing a crime, the perp's relatives cannot sue.

Tort reform is an excellent way to keep criminals "in check".

Yea Baby, kill the succah!

Glad to hear from so many Americans on the guns return. Here in Maine { the other California } they would probably not be so lucky.

EVERY Democrat, including the 'pro-gun' ones are fine with this girl being harmed. It would empower their 'sensible' gun control laws, which are steps toward their ultimate goal of disarming most American citizens. They all work at it one way or another. The ones that vote against any measure that comes up only do so when it does not matter. They would be happy to see a Supreme Court that simply over rides the constitution and makes every armed citizen a criminal.

Maybe you are the unusual human who would not fight with everything you had to protect your life or your family, but if you aren't, arm yourself while you can and stop voting for the politicians who want you to be disposable.

Good. The intruder's motive may not have been just burglary. Too many kidnappings of children are in the news these days.