Glad it worked out for her, she got lucky. I wonder if she identified the person opening the door before she fired. It would have sucked if a cop or one of her parents had opend the door and got shot instead.
This is not a victory for or against gun laws, it is a little girl getting lucky defending herself. I support guns for home protection, and I still support gun locks so twelve year olds can't kill themselves on accident. There are too many problems with this story to tout as a gun rights victory. Be happy she made it and leave it at that.
You mean the gun lock that would have guaranteed that this little girl was raped and maybe killed? See, I prefer education, you know, teaching my kids the safe and proper way to handle and shoot a firearm and twelve years old is way old enough to be a responsible firearms handler. You do know that twelve year olds in just this nation used firearms to fill the family pantries for generations? That in almost every war and campaign fought on this soil children in that age group used firearms to defend this nation, their homes and their families? My sons starting shooting at 6yrs old and I would trust them with a firearm under any conditions by the time they were 12yrs old. Locks can be gotten around by children and kids, some younger than 12, are exposed to guns outside the home on a regular basis so a lock on your gun worthless if that is your idea of keeping your kids safe. If you want to keep your kids as safe as possible, teaching them the safe and proper way to handle a firearm, and just as importanty when NOT to hanlde a firearm or be around others that do, is the ONLY way to go. Before my sons where 12 they could hit in the 9 and 10 rings with an AK-47, and SKS, an M-1 Carbine, a Mini-14, an AR-15, a .410, a 20GA some of which where full auto, and numerous types of pistols and revolvers, not to mention the fact that they could break down, clean and re-assemble EVERY weapon I owned or that my friends owned and came to my home to fire. THAT is the proper way to keep you kids safe around firearms, not locking them away or hiding them from your kids.