Onto 300!

Brad_in_MA sent this one in yesterday, hoping it would be #200. It's tied for my favorite type of DGC addition (tied with the kind from #200):

Woman says she killed estranged boyfriend in self-defense

The woman’s hands were shaking, but she spoke in a calm voice as she stood outside the Far East Side apartment where 27-year-old Quentin L. Walker was shot and killed early yesterday.

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She said that Walker, her estranged boyfriend and the father of her two children, broke into her apartment in the middle of the night and came at her with a crowbar in his hand.

Now, I know that this is going to shock you, but she had a restraining order against Walker. I know, I know; somehow the protection afforded a little piece of paper failed her. Quelle surprise... However, she had a backup plan:

She shot and killed him, using the gun she’d bought this year, Ashley said. She had feared that the protection order that was supposed to keep him away from her and their 7-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter would not be enough.

Good for her. That had to be a horrifying moment, when she realized that the man who had terrorized her was back despite the legal interventions over the years. At least she took the sensible precaution of obtaining a useful method of protection.

Think about this story, and others like it, whenever some anti-freedom shill trots out the "you're more likely to be killed by someone you know if you have a gun" or variety thereof. This woman knew her assailant. She had at one point in time shared a home and a family with her assailant. Statistics like "knowing your assailant" or "children killed by gun violence" (last story) are completely and utterly useless - the last two DGCs fall into those categories.

And, as always, a 9mm in the hand beats all the paper in the world when someone's coming in through your window with a crowbar in their hand...

Dead Goblin Count: 201

That is all.