“In cases like this, you wish the homeowner had a weapon and was capable of defending themselves.”
The mug shot above should be of a man permanently disabled or killed from defensive gun use. Cruel human beings like this are why more people should carry to rid the streets of scum and prevent further incidents.
From pressherald.com
Waterville police chief Joe Massey says the assault and rape of a 73-year-old city woman on Sunday makes a good case for why citizens should arm themselves as a defense against crime.
“It’s one of those cases where you could make a good argument for citizens arming themselves,” Massey said Thursday. “Someone said, ‘A gun in hand is better than someone on the phone telling you police are on their way.’
Massey acknowledged that he doesn’t know whether the victim could have used a gun or whether the attack could have been prevented, but said the attack has spurred him to raise the issue of responsible gun ownership.
Regardless, Massey’s words tapped into a long-simmering national debate about guns and crime.
In the Waterville case, Mark Daniel Halle, 32, is being held in lieu of $225,000 cash bail at the Kennebec County jail in Augusta on felony counts of gross sexual assault, burglary and aggravated assault.
The woman told police that she awoke to a loud bang shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday and was confronted by a man dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and armed with what appeared to be a handgun. She said the man forced her back into the bedroom and put a pillow case over her head, sexually assaulted her, then beat her with the gun. The woman suffered multiple bruises from the beating and was later hospitalized.
After the assault, the attacker demanded the woman take a shower and threatened to kill her if she called the police, Massey said.
The rest of the article goes on to talk about defensive gun use and the stats. Research was not done very properly and the article seems to hold a bias against defensive gun use.
What we know is that there are 55,000 to 4.7 million estimated cases of defensive gun use that happen each year. Why would you argue against that?
Why would you be against this 73-year-old woman defending herself against this scumbag? This is a woman that probably would never use her gun, unless a situation came up like this. Only in the event of an emergency.
This is exactly what millions of responsibly armed citizens do across America every day. They carry their guns without incident, they carry their guns in order to prevent an incident…
We are not violent people running around shooting every chance we get! We are just a group of armed and prepared citizens, reinforced by our Second Amendment and very aware of the necessity of it.
