'Repel Boarders!'
Stories like this one make fools out of people who say that firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizen’s are useless for protecting lives and property.
Laura Williams was awakened Tuesday morning by a ringing doorbell.
"I went to the door and just kind of opened it and there was an older man standing at my front door with a shovel and he asked for a lady's name and I said ‘there's no one here by that name I'm sorry, you're at the wrong house, she doesn't live here,’” Williams said.
The man left, but Williams says she felt uncomfortable....
"I looked out and he was standing at the opening of the woods with a shovel still in his hand and he kept looking back and looking, I said ‘no this is not going to go down like this.’".....
Williams ran to the other side of her house where [her daughter] Hannah was asleep.
“I woke her up and I said ‘go to my bedroom, get the dogs and let's go’ because that's where we keep our guns in our house."
"No sooner did we get to the bedroom and shut the door, he was kicking in the front door and hitting it with the shovel,” Williams said.
Williams got her pistol out of the drawer of a bedside table and confronted the man in the living room while her daughter called 911.
“I had time to grab the revolver and come out the door. So when he came in the shovel was up on his shoulder, he was headed straight towards us,” she said.
"I aimed it at him and said ‘if you take one more step I'll kill you.’"
The man stopped, mumbled some words and turned to leave.
As he walked out the door he turned to back to Williams.
“He said 'Well all y'all need to know is y'all need to leave me the F alone,' and I said ‘I don't even know you, get out of my house, ‘" Williams said....
Deputies arrived 14 minutes later.... They found [the intruder] in a nearby trailer park.
If the victim had not had a gun, the intruder probably would have not only been able to overpower the victim, but would have had at least 14 minutes to inflict whatever evil that he had in mind.
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