12 Year Old Points Gun at Burglars; Group Takes Off

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From Greenville’s Fox21.com of July 10, 2006

12 Year Old Points Gun at Burglars; Group Takes Off

An accused group of thugs-- thwarted by a 12-year old with a gun. It happened in Greenville when police say five masked men stormed into a house and started beating up the child's father.

FOX Carolina's Jamie Guirola reports, Try and picture it. A 12 year old walks into the living room, sees his mother frantically protecting the baby, and several strangers attacking his father. The 12 year old rushes out of the living room-- but comes back pointing a gun at the five suspects. As of Monday night-- all but one are in jail.

These are the alleged home invaders without their masks. The youngest barely seventeen, the oldest just 20. George Dickert didn't have time to think about their ages when he tells us they broke into his home and tried to rob his family.

George Dickert/Victim: "F*$# you! That's what I was thinking."

Sunday night, George says, one of the suspects in the group followed him into his house after he smoked a cigarette. He tells us the man pulled out a gun, threatening him. When George reached for a different gun in self-defense a fight broke out.

George: "I work five days a week and my wife works six days a week. We're an honest couple. We do what we have to do to make a living and some idiot decided he wanted what I had."

When the struggle started, police say, two other men came into the house and started beating on George. That's when George's 12 year old made the move credited with scaring the accused thugs out of the house-- and stopping the burglary-- without even firing the gun.'

George: "He did what he had to do to protect his family last night. And a 12 year old child should never have to go through that. Even if he does know what to do, he should not have to do that."

Police later found these four near George's home sweating and breathing heavily. Something George hopes they'll do again if they're convicted and sentenced to the max.

George: "...And I will press and push and do whatever it takes to make sure every individual in it gets it."

Police aren't releasing details about the fifth person they're looking for. George says he has five guns in the house. His taught his son how to use each of them.

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Kudos to the 12-year old for his actions, and to his father for teaching him how to handle his firearms. I, too, hope the criminals get to do quite a lot of "sweating and heavy breathing" when they make it to the "pokey".

 

[Dbl0Kevin]

Wait a sec.....I thought children were unable to be trusted with firearms!?!? This just can't be! Those guns should have been locked up with their ammunition in a different area so they all would have been SAFE!

PS: way to go kid!

 

[jojosdad]

The 12 year old rushes out of the living room-- but comes back pointing a gun at the five suspects.

A perfect example of proper gun control being "for the children".
That young man was obviously raised with great family values.

 

[Working Man]

Good parenting, there is no substitution for it.
I hope I can instill such presence of mind in my children some day. We need
to invite him and his son to THR.

George says he has five guns in the house.

That part I would not have mentioned if I was him, especially since
they are hardly ever home.

 

[Preacherman]

Time to buy that youngster a gun of his own!

 

[Zundfolge]

This is why so-called "Safe Storage" laws are evil ... had this story taken place in a state with those laws, either the gun would have been locked up or the father would now be in jail. :banghead:

 

[1 old 0311]

I have a 12 year old girl that would have shot ALL of them then field stripped and cleaned it.

 

[CNYCacher]

police say five masked men stormed into a house and started beating up the child's father.

This is why so-called "Safe Storage" laws are evil ... had this story taken place in a state with those laws, either the gun would have been locked up or the father would now be in jail.

Sounds to me that had this happened in a state with those laws, the the father would either be dead or in jail.

 

[Sport45]

I have a 12 year old girl that would have shot ALL of them then field stripped and cleaned it.

I read that too fast. Drew a mental picture of your daughter field dressing the bad guys. Then it occured to me that you meant she would have cleaned the firearm.

 

[rev214]

This is why so-called "Safe Storage" laws are evil ... had this story taken place in a state with those laws, either the gun would have been locked up or the father would now be in jail.

absolutely correct...he's dead if he's a citizen of, say, massachusetts...

 

[DF357]

If this had happened in Ma., the father would be in jail for having unsecured weapons within the reach of his child.

 

[EddieCoyle]

Yup; unless it turns out that the kid pointed an Airsoft gun at the bad guys when the cops asked him.

 

[gunsmith]

looks like it's time for the "Mary Carpenter" Letter

every gun owner and parent should read this
http://www.grnc.org/mary_carpenter_letter.htm

The Mary Carpenter Letter


Mary Carpenter
April 20,2001

North Carolina General Assembly
To Whom It May Concern,

To my understanding you are debating the passage of laws requiring trigger locks and mandatory storage of guns. I am a second generation resident of the State of California, a mother and a grieving grandmother. I wish to express to you how trigger locks and mandatory storage laws in the State of California affected my family. I hope my testimony may save someone in your state from sharing the pain we must now endure for the remainder of our lives. No law you can pass will keep the irresponsible from shooting accidents or a felon from stealing a gun. I am enclosing a portion of a letter I wrote to my own state legislators concerning the constant progression of laws restricting our guns in my state.

Depending on whether or not you truly care, you may or may not recognize my name. I am the paternal grandmother of the two children who were brutally murdered inside their rural Merced California home on August 23, 2000 by a stranger with a pitchfork.

Instead of suing gun manufacturers, I am of the opinion it is our lawmakers who need to be sued. It was you who created the laws that kept my grandchildren from being able to defend themselves with any weapon greater than their bare hands. All of my son's children had been trained in the use of firearms but were unable to get to their Dad's weapon because of California State Law.

You, who have CCW permits or armed body guards, or both expect me to face a society gone mad because of drug altered brains and lax laws on the perpetrators of crime? You had no room in your prisons for the killer of my grandchildren though his wife had reported to the police in Mojave California in June of 1997 that he had forced her and their infant son into his car (kidnapping) while living in southern California? At that time she also reported how she had managed to escape from him in Mojave after he held a gun to her head (assault with a deadly weapon) threatening to kill her and their one-month-old child?

Though more recently she had given to the Dos Palos California Police Dept. the tape from her message minder threatening to kill her present husband? Though he had assaulted a police officer while resisting arrest for drug charges? Though he had violated his parole by not appearing at his hearing and they had a warrant out for his arrest? Though they knew where he lived, and also his mother and grandmother, yet failed to pick him up? Will you then find room for my son in your prisons should his fourteen year old daughter have access to his gun while she is babysitting her siblings?

There is a growing list, in my area alone, of people (mostly women) who might still be alive had they not been in a state where the use of a gun was prohibited.

Juli Sund, Carole Sund, Selvina Pelosso, Joie Armstrong, Ashley and John William Carpenter to name a few. Lawmakers talk big about a woman's right to choose yet don't allow me the very basic right to choose to defend myself? If teachers were allowed to carry a concealed weapon to school you would see the school shootings disappear. The same is true with the citizen on the street. The reason is, these killers are cowards. You can tell by their choice of victims. They operate best where they know there are no guns.

Look at your child tonight and imagine him or her with their eyes jabbed out, their skulls splintered, their brains pierced, and their spines broken with the heavy tines of a spading fork. In defending her sisters to the death with the only weapon you allowed her, Ashley had 138 puncture wounds. Twenty-nine of them were on the right side of her face, five on the back of her head, and thirty-seven to her chest and lower neck. (Obviously he was trying to behead her.) She was nine years old. While committing no crime greater than sleeping in his parents bed, in his own house, John William, 7 years old, was stabbed 46 times, with most of them in the chest, neck, and head. Depending on the condition of your heart, you may or may not feel a small measure of the pain my family and I must endure for the remainder of our lives.

Now, imagine all the gun laws you can dream up and honestly admit whether or not they would have stopped such a mad dog as this. This man was a total stranger to the family, and other than a trace of marijuana, was not on drugs at the time. However, by the testimony of his wife and girlfriend, he was a drug user who became frightening whenever he used them. All your imagined gun laws will do is insure someone's children will die again. Take a drive downtown and see for yourself all the drug addled brains.

You may declare gun free zones, but you cannot declare killer free zones. This tragedy has made me realize I am not even safe in my locked home, my barn, or my backyard. I dare you to request the autopsy reports of John William & Ashley Danielle Carpenter done on August 28,2000 from Sheriff Tom Sawyer of the Merced County Sheriffs Dept. Also ask him for the police interview with the killer's wife and girlfriend telling about his drug use and devil worship. Ask Detective Parsley about his fetish for horror movies produced by a John Carpenter, (no relation to us), and one he especially liked, that we have learned depicts a killing done with a pitchfork.

His last employment was as a telemarketer in Merced. If you have an honest bone in your body you will see this country is in desperate need of a change of heart not the gun laws that have been in place for over two hundred years. All the gun laws you can imagine cannot change the heart of a killer and you know it. Until man's heart is changed, we will be like sheep led to the slaughter without our weapons of defense.

May you stand before God and man as my two precious grandchildren's killer if you pass any more gun legislation that will make me a felon should I own a handgun or any other gun for that matter.

Sincerely,

Mary Carpenter
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[mindwip]

sad

 

[M2 Carbine]

If It'll Save a Single Child...
Repeal the Gun Law

Jessica Lynn Carpenter is 14 years old. She knows how to shoot; her father taught her. And there were adequate firearms to deal with the crisis that arose in the Carpenter home in Merced, Calif. - a San Joaquin Valley farming community 130 miles southeast of San Francisco - when 27 year old Jonathon David Bruce came calling on Wednesday morning, Aug. 23.
There was just one problem. Under the new "safe storage" laws being enacted in California and elsewhere, parents can be held criminally liable unless they lock up their guns when their children are home alone... so that's just what law-abibing parents John and Tephanie carpenter had done.
Some of Jessica's siblings - Anna, 13; Vanessa, 11: Ashley, 9; and John Williams, 7 - were still in their bedrooms when Bruce broke into the farmhouse shortly after 9 a.m
. Bruce, who was armed with a pitchfork - but to whom police remain unable to attribute any motive - had apparently cut the phone lines. So when he forced his way into the house and began stabbing the younger children in their beds, Jessica's attempts to dial 9-1-1 didn't do much good. Next, the sensible girl ran for where the family guns were stored. But they were locked up tight.
"When the 14-year-old girl ran to a nearby house to escape the pitchfork-wielding man attacking her siblings," writes Kimi Yoshinoshe of the Fresno Bee, "she didn't ask her neighbor to call 9-1-1. She begged him to grab his rifle and "take care of this guy."
He didn't. So Jessica ended up on the phone.
By the time Merced County sheriff's deputies arrived at the home, 7-year old John Williams and 9-year old Ashley Danielle were dead, murdered as they cowered under their blankets. Thirteen-year-old Anna was wounded but survived.
Once the deputies arrived, Bruce rushed them with his bloody pitchfork. So they shot him dead. They shot him more than a dozen times. With their guns.

Get it?

The following Friday, the children's great-uncle, the Rev. John Hilton, told reporters: "If only (Jessica) had a gun available to her, she could have stopped the whole thing. If she had been properly armed, she could have stopped him in his tracks." Maybe John Williams and Ashley would still be alive, Jessicia's uncle said.
"Unfortunately, 17 states now have these so-called safe storage laws," replied Yale Law School Senior Research Scholar John Lott - author of the book "More Guns, Less Crime." "The problem is, you see no decrease in either juvenile accidental gun deaths or suicides when such laws are enacted, but you do see an increase in crime rates."
Such laws are based on the notion that young children often "find daddy's gun" and accidentally shoot each other. But in fact only five American children under the age of 10 died of accidents involving handguns in 1997, Lott reports. "People get the impression that kids under 10 are killing each other. In fact this is very rare: three to four per year."
The typical shooter in an accidental child death is a male in his late teens or 20s, who, statistically, is probably a drug addict or an alcoholic and has already been charged with multiple crimes, Lott reports. These are the data that correlate. Are these the kind of people who are going to obey one more law?"
So why doesn't the national press report what happens when a "gun control" law costs the lives of innocent children in a place like Merced?
"In the school shooting in Pearl, Miss., " Dr. Lott replied, "the assistant principal had formerly carried a gun to school.
When the 1955 ("Gun-Free School Zones") law passed, he took to locking his gun in his car and parking it at least a quarter-mile away from the school, in order to obey the law. When that shooting incident started he ran to his car, unlocked it, got his gun, ran back, disarmed the shooter and held him on the ground for five minutes until the police arrived.
"There were more than 700 newspaper stories catalogued on that incident. Only 19 mentioned the assistant principal in any way, and only nine mentioned that he had a gun."
The press covers only the bad side of gun use, and only the potential benefits of "gun control" laws - never their costs. "Basically all the current federal proposals fall into this category - trigger locks, waiting periods," Lott said. "There's not one academic study that shows any reduction in crime from measures like these. But there are good studies that show the opposite. Even with short waiting periods, crime goes up. You have wemon being stalked, and they can't go quickly and get a gun due to the waiting periods, so they get assaulted or they get killed."
The United States has among the world's lowest "hot" burglary rates - burglaries committed while people are in the building - at 13 percent, compared to "gun free" Britain's rate, which is now up to 59 percent, Lott reports. "If you survey burglars, American burglars spend at least twice as long casing a joint before break in...The number one reason they give for taking so much time is: They're afraid of getting shot."
The way Jonathon David Mruce, of Merced, Calif., might once have been afraid of getting shot...before 17 states enacted laws requiring American parents to leave their kids disarmed while they're away from home, that is.
Orginally published in Las Vegas Review-Journal.