Iowa man saves his wife...with a Shotgun

[theHawk]

Come on you progessive D-bags, tell us how this man is a NRA gun "nutter":

(CNN) -- An Iowa man shot and killed an escaped inmate on Tuesday after the convict held him and his wife hostage in their home, investigators said.

Jerome Mauderly, 71, and his wife, Carolyn, 66, were asleep when escaped inmate Rodney Long, 38, broke into their rural Bedford home a little after 10 p.m. on Monday, said Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation spokesman Mitch Mortvedt.

Long -- who had allegedly shot a deputy pursuing him on Sunday -- woke up the Mauderlys and disabled their landline phones except for a line in the couple's bedroom. He then took a shotgun that Jerome Mauderly, a retired prison guard and farmer, had loaded that night and placed next to the bed before going to sleep.

Iowa husband shoots, kills escaped inmate who held him, wife hostage - CNN.com

 

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[C_Clayton_Jones]

Come on you progessive D-bags, tell us how this man is a NRA gun "nutter":

(CNN) -- An Iowa man shot and killed an escaped inmate on Tuesday after the convict held him and his wife hostage in their home, investigators said.

Jerome Mauderly, 71, and his wife, Carolyn, 66, were asleep when escaped inmate Rodney Long, 38, broke into their rural Bedford home a little after 10 p.m. on Monday, said Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation spokesman Mitch Mortvedt.

Long -- who had allegedly shot a deputy pursuing him on Sunday -- woke up the Mauderlys and disabled their landline phones except for a line in the couple's bedroom. He then took a shotgun that Jerome Mauderly, a retired prison guard and farmer, had loaded that night and placed next to the bed before going to sleep.

Iowa husband shoots, kills escaped inmate who held him, wife hostage - CNN.com

You and others on the right who post similar threads seem to be making the attempt – and failing – to mitigate the fact that a gun in the home is more likely to kill or injure a family member than a would be assailant.

Because this and similar incidents are anecdotal they in no way constitute compelling, objective evidence; it only makes the OP look stupid, ignorant and desperate.

Your argument should be that the fact that a gun in the home is more likely to kill or injure a family member than a would be assailant is legally and Constitutionally irrelevant, that the Constitutional right to self-defense, and the right to own a handgun pursuant to that right, cannot be subject to a comprehensive ban, and that such data are not a compelling reason for the government to justify a ban on a particular class of weapons.

Debates concerning the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment are going to be won using intelligent, factual arguments based on current Second Amendment jurisprudence, not irrelevant, emotional, and incidental events where gun owners fend off an attacker.

This and similar threads in fact do more to undermine Second Amendment rights, needlessly casting gun owners in a negative light.

 

[theHawk]

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Debates concerning the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment are going to be won using intelligent, factual arguments based on current Second Amendment jurisprudence, not irrelevant, emotional, and incidental events where gun owners fend off an attacker.

Why not? The left uses those same tactics to attack 2nd amendment rights every chance they get. I'm simply pointing out to them how they cherry pick their headlines by ignoring stories such as these.

I agree that "factual arguements" are they way to win the "debate", the problem is progressives don't ever debate. They just go on emotional tirades when the media feeds them a sob story envolving guns.

They can't "debate" the 2nd amendment because they've lost that arguement long ago.