Another Two on the DGC-ometer...

First off, we have this lovely report courtesy of TheAxe:

Maryland Man Dies After Indiana Store Holdup

A 21-year-old Maryland man has died from gunshot wounds while trying to rob a southern Indiana convenience store.

The coroner's office in Louisville, Ky., says Terry Wilson of Baltimore died Saturday, two days after he was shot by a clerk at the Q Mart Convenience Store in Jeffersonville.

Once again, gun control laws claim another victim. This time, though, it's a good thing - it's a thug who normally preys on disarmed folk finding out the permanent way that not all states view their citizens as children incapable of self-defense. This time he chose to stick up a convenience store in a free state where store workers could - and did - have the means to self-protection. And he paid the ultimate price for his poor decision-making skills.

Dead Goblin Count: 213

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The second story comes to us courtesy of DaddyBear:

Burglar shot by homeowner in struggle over gun

SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Shepherdsville police are investigating a burglary at a home in the Sycamore Bend neighborhood of the city. WAVE 3 spoke to the homeowner's husband who didn't want to go on camera. He said his wife was still in shock Sunday evening and her two children are a little traumatized, but he said they are all okay. He is calling his wife a hero.

Abso-freakin'-lutely. She came back to her house in the middle of the day to find some scumbag in the process of burglarizing it. She confronted the person, only to find that he was taking one of her guns in the mix, and in the struggle for the weapon managed to shoot the goblin in the head (he later succumbed to his wounds).

Here's the part I don't get:

Officer Armstrong said "I never recommend confronting someone that would be in your home...I would always recommend leave the home, call 911 and get us there."

That's something you'd expect from "we discourage self-help" Massachusetts, not a place like By-G-d Kentucky. This woman was a firearms instructor and a veteran - not exactly some clueless soccer mom going for her pink-handled Taurus 25 here. This was someone who knew what she was doing - and what could possibly go wrong if she just let the perp walk out the door with her shotgun in his hands.

Make sure when you get to hell, you tell 'em a woman sent you there, Sparky...

Dead Goblin Count: 214

That is all.