15 Year Old Boy Uses AR-15 to Defend Himself and His 12 Year Old Sister from Two Burglars

Around 2:30 PM on June 29, 2010, a 15 year old boy was watching his 12 year old sister while home alone in northwest Harris County in Houston, TX when two men attempted to open the locked front door an the locked back door before finally breaking a back window and entering the house. The boy grabbed his dad's AR-15 "assault rifle" (I still chuckle when I use that term) and opened fire on the intruders. They immediately fled, leaving a trail of blood. Shortly thereafter, two men entered Tomball Hospital nearby, one with three gunshot wounds. The other, a juvenile, was arrested and brought back to the crime scene. It is suspected that the same burglars had also robbed the two houses next door recently and had returned for more. No one, besides the intruders, were injured in the altercation.

Once again, this will be entered as another injury that resulted from a firearm. The more important statistic, but the one you won't see on the news, is that it could easily have been two children violently beaten, kidnapped, or murdered, at worst. At best, it was a robbery that was stopped, along with all future robberies that this duo would have perpetrated. Undoubtedly, some of those robberies would have victimized people who don't own or don't believe in guns. Once again, the responsible gun-owning population has provided a benefit to those who are against guns that they will never see or acknowledge.