Good Goin' Mom!

Barron initially sent this story in, before it turned into a DGC (the G was not D when he sent the link originally), and commenter Gerry confirmed that it is, indeed, a D...

Police: Phoenix mom kills backyard intruder

PHOENIX (KPHO) - A 29-year-old man has died after a Phoenix mom shot him in her backyard in what police believe was a case of self-defense.

The woman's 13-year-old daughter called 911 at around 3 p.m. Monday and alerted dispatchers to send officers to their home on 45th Street near Roeser, said Phoenix Police Officer James Holmes.

Woman sees two men in her backyard. Calls her husband, who tells her to get her gun. They come back, one of them points a gun at her, she shoots him dead. Classic defensive gun use. They were somewhere they had no business being; they obviously meant harm if they brought a weapon; one of them paid the ultimate price.

[pause to let cheers and catcalls die down]

What floors me is this statement:

Holmes said investigators are trying to determine why the men were there, possibly twice.

Um, gee, maybe because they were casing the place for a robbery? Because all they saw was a woman and her daughter and thought they'd have an easy score (and, you know, maybe a little fun while they're in the house...). The way the story is written, it sounds like the first time she saw the men in her yard there was no confrontation - they were gone by the time she made it out. That they came back - especially with a weapon - means that they were absolutely up to no good.

Make no mistake - that woman most likely saved her life and that of her daughter, all because she used the best tool possible for protection. One woman and a teenaged daughter against two adult male thugs with a gun? You do the odds. Without a firearm, they were both at the mercy of the two goblins. With the firearm, the playing field is level, and the good guys - or, in this case, gals - win.

I greatly prefer this outcome.

Dead Goblin Count: 218

That is all.