A young mother was alone in a locked house with her two young twins. She was confronted by a determined armed assailant who had already smashed his way into the home.

A gun failed to dissuade him. He did not give up, he kept on coming. Five bullets later and he still managed to escape.

This brave, quick-thinking woman deserves a medal.

Any nightmares would be fear that the assailant and some of his friends might return some day.

Any feminists' responses ?

Bit of a marksman are you Phillip? You'll need to be if you want to give the crooks every chance to take you out, by warning them, particularly if you are armed with a pea shooter.

This poor woman was obviously using a very small caliber pistol, if the bloke could still make it to a car with 4 rounds through him.

The police sargent, in my last town told a few of us privately that we had only 2 choices with someone who broke into our homes.

1/ Give them every thing they want, plus a bit more, & hope they don't hurt you & yours.

2/ shoot them between the eyes.

You must never wound or injure them, or a smart lawyer will have you on trial, not them. At least shooting them between the eyes ensures they can't make up some story with any lawyer.

This cop had been charged with excessive force when he had broken a couple of ribs of a cannabis grower, who attacked him from behind, with a crow bar. He believed he only avoided prosecution as his injuries were worse than he had inflicted on his attacker.

I do find it incredible that some of you people are so worried about the hoodlum, rather than their victim.

Hasbeen -
1) The crook does not know you have a pea shooter.

2) I believe the cop who gave you the advice on point 2/ would have added put a knife or gun in their hand after you shoot them.

3) One saying is it would be better to be tried in front of 12 people than carried by 6 people

Hasbeen,
Yep, brave woman deserves a nedal but she needs a bigger gun and plenty of practice using it.

My wife, who can shoot, once asked me where to aim for to stop a bloke? My reply was Use the biggest gun of my collection, that you can get quickly and easily, and aim for the biggest part that you can see. Garranteed to stop him. He won't bother you no more

All the gun laws did was make the workplace safer for criminals.

she should have said she has a gun if he proceeded further she should have fired 1 in his general direction as a warning.
Philip S,
In an ideal world I'd agree with you alas. An academic/lawyer would argue that of course but, what if there was an accomplice, what if one of the children freaked out & threw the mother's concentration off balance. An intruder is nothing but vermin & deserves no consideration whatsoever & richly deserves to cop it hard. As Hasbeen said if the vermin lives the scum/lawyers/civil libertarians will gang up on the victim & persecute. Justice is a dirty word for them.
Come to think our taxes pay for them whilst the victim has to battle to pay for being a victim.