Elderly Woman Wounds 3 Home Invaders
The story has been making its way around the blogosphere.
There is one part of it that I want to be sure to point out:
According to family members, Johnston lived alone. Dozier says that Johnston did have a firearm. She says she took her aunt to get a permit for that firearm, for her own protection.
(My emphasis.) When the information gets sorted out, we will discover two things — that the police, if they announced, did not do so clearly or give a chance to respond, and we will find out that the justification for the warrant was that someone in the house had a handgun permit.
In other words, if you attempt to comply with the law and become properly licensed, you will be treated even more like a dangerous criminal.
Check out Radley’s for an update.
Permit for a firearm in Georgia? I don’t think there are permits.
Yeah, saw it after I posted. I’m betting that the “suspected narcotics” are her arthritis medication.
Oh, and Georgia has a CHL system, so that may be the permit she was referring to.
According to the CNN article the cops were plainclothes, which would make her reaction even more reasonable.
She got 3 Impressive