Georgia Woman without a Gun Hiding in Closet from Intruders Shot Multiple Times

Nobody is celebrating here; anybody who cheers an innocent person's death or injury to try to prove a point is a psychopath (Maybe like the Occupy NRA facebook group and the comments related to the death of Keith Ratliff?). However, since it already happened, it is interesting to break down the similarities and differences in two very related events.

On Saturday of this past week, we brought the story of the mom in Loganville, GA who used a revolver to defend herself and her two kids who were hiding in a closet from a home invader. She tried to avoid the confrontation as best she could, but the home invader found them anyway. When he did, however, she was prepared to defend herself and shot him five times, causing him to flee, saving herself and her children from potential assault or murder.

Contrast that with an event that happened the same day, less than one hour away in Fairburn, GA. In this case, a woman, home alone just before midnight, heard her doorbell ring. She ignored it while the suspects went around to the back, confident that no one was home. They busted through the back door as the woman grabbed her phone, hid in a closet, and called 911. Before the police could arrive, however, the suspects found her and shot her multiple times. She had no means of defending herself. The robbers got away, stealing just an iPad and she's fortunate to be alive.

There is no moral superiority of one woman over the other, even though I have no doubt that gun control activists would say that the woman bloodied and nearly killed is somehow morally superior than the Loganville mother. Each woman made her own personal choice about the value of gun ownership and neither of those choices is morally superior to the other; personally, however, I would rather be the one shooting than being shot.