Gun Control is Using Both Hands
May. 25th, 2006 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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spookshow1313...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-skidshoot25may25,0,2330961.story?coll=sfla-news-broward
Hollywood teen shoots intruder after father says on phone, `Do what you have to do'
By Marlene Naanes
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted May 25 2006
Hollywood ยท Javaris Granger wished his father was there instead of him.
His father was on the phone, urging Granger, 15, to get the gun they used for shooting practice. "Do what you have to do," his father said.
Granger did. He aimed the gun and fired at the violent intruder.
Family and friends are awed by Granger's bravery. "Anyone who takes charge like that is definitely a hero," said Maxine Chandler, his mother.
Before the McArthur High School freshman fired the gun, he kept a cool head and remembered his father's shooting and safety lessons during the chaos early Saturday morning.
His father, Lyndon Chandler, had left the house to visit a friend at the hospital. His wife heard a knock at the door and, thinking it was her husband, opened it. A stranger grabbed at her; she pulled free and slammed the door.
It was 3:30 a.m.
Granger woke with a start, hearing his mother's frantic voice and something slamming against the front window.
He ran out to the dark living room and saw his mother screaming as a man, cursing and muttering, threw a bicycle at the window.
Granger yelled at the intruder to leave, while his mother called his father on the phone and handed it to her son. The stranger began turning the doorknob, intent on getting in the home.
Within seconds, Granger ran into his parents' bedroom, found the safety box, unlocked it and loaded two guns for him and his mother. He ran back to the living room as the intruder threw a bicycle at the door and started kicking it in.
His mother was too shaken to take a gun, so she ran to another bedroom where her daughters and visiting family members were hiding.
"I was real scared and nervous, but I knew I had to stay focused on what I had to do because my mom and the kids were there," Granger said.
The next moment the man kicked down the door and jumped into the living room, yards from Granger.
"I didn't want to hurt anybody, so I fired off a warning shot," the ninth-grader said.
The intruder didn't leave until four shots later.
Since the incident, friends and family members have called to congratulate the modest teenager who didn't tell his story until news reports made it hard to hide. His three sisters call him brave, his dad is very proud of "the man of the house" and his mom says her family would have died if the man police later identified as Keil Jumper had laid hands on them.
Jumper, 22, is in Memorial Regional Medical Center with two gunshot wounds. He has a string of arrests dating to 2001, including one for attacking a Seminole Reservation Police Officer the day before he allegedly broke into Granger's home.
Granger does not face charges. The second oldest child in the family, he often goes to the range at Markham Park to practice shoot with his father. He was never a victim of crime before, but calmly went through all the gun safety steps his father taught him, even after one gun jammed after the first shot Saturday.
He even locked up the guns after Jumper left, before he checked on his mother. "My husband tried to get everyone to learn the safety of a gun," Chandler said. "It paid off."
Marlene Naanes can be reached at mnaanes@sun-sentinel.com or 954-385-7922.
This is why I oppose gun lock laws and gun safe laws; when you need a weapon of self defense, you need it NOW.
This is why I refute the contention that anti-gun legislation makes people safer.
This is why I regard with scorn the people who claimed that Florida's new "No Retreat" self-defense law would "return us to the days of the Wild West."
And as for why I want anti-gun laws stripped from the books, consider this: in California or New York, the kid would be in the cell next to the intruder for unlawful use of a firearm... and in Great Britain, the intruder would be out on the street while the kid was in jail for attempted homicide.
Finally, to you who point out that the kid was trained, and that there's no guarantee without licensing and registration of guns that everyone will be trained: there's no guarantee that everyone with a gun will be competent and well-meaning even WITH licensing and registration. There IS, however, a guarantee that someone, indeed a lot of someones, who NEEDS a gun will NOT have one because of such laws.
If it makes you feel better, how about this? If physical education and sex education are mandatory in public schools, why not gun education? Begin with basic DON'T TOUCH in the early years, then basic weapons safety, then when to use and not to use firearms (and REPEAT that lesson!!), then marksmanship, then in junior high teach 'em how to clean and repair. By the time they get out, they'll be able to defend themselves and others- and they'll be on a level playing field with those who want to hurt others. Fair enough?
EDIT: For a lighter view of knowing when and when not to shoot, check today's Freefall (5-26-06):
http://freefall.purrsia.com/
spookshow1313...http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-skidshoot25may25,0,2330961.story?coll=sfla-news-broward
Hollywood teen shoots intruder after father says on phone, `Do what you have to do'
By Marlene Naanes
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Posted May 25 2006
Hollywood ยท Javaris Granger wished his father was there instead of him.
His father was on the phone, urging Granger, 15, to get the gun they used for shooting practice. "Do what you have to do," his father said.
Granger did. He aimed the gun and fired at the violent intruder.
Family and friends are awed by Granger's bravery. "Anyone who takes charge like that is definitely a hero," said Maxine Chandler, his mother.
Before the McArthur High School freshman fired the gun, he kept a cool head and remembered his father's shooting and safety lessons during the chaos early Saturday morning.
His father, Lyndon Chandler, had left the house to visit a friend at the hospital. His wife heard a knock at the door and, thinking it was her husband, opened it. A stranger grabbed at her; she pulled free and slammed the door.
It was 3:30 a.m.
Granger woke with a start, hearing his mother's frantic voice and something slamming against the front window.
He ran out to the dark living room and saw his mother screaming as a man, cursing and muttering, threw a bicycle at the window.
Granger yelled at the intruder to leave, while his mother called his father on the phone and handed it to her son. The stranger began turning the doorknob, intent on getting in the home.
Within seconds, Granger ran into his parents' bedroom, found the safety box, unlocked it and loaded two guns for him and his mother. He ran back to the living room as the intruder threw a bicycle at the door and started kicking it in.
His mother was too shaken to take a gun, so she ran to another bedroom where her daughters and visiting family members were hiding.
"I was real scared and nervous, but I knew I had to stay focused on what I had to do because my mom and the kids were there," Granger said.
The next moment the man kicked down the door and jumped into the living room, yards from Granger.
"I didn't want to hurt anybody, so I fired off a warning shot," the ninth-grader said.
The intruder didn't leave until four shots later.
Since the incident, friends and family members have called to congratulate the modest teenager who didn't tell his story until news reports made it hard to hide. His three sisters call him brave, his dad is very proud of "the man of the house" and his mom says her family would have died if the man police later identified as Keil Jumper had laid hands on them.
Jumper, 22, is in Memorial Regional Medical Center with two gunshot wounds. He has a string of arrests dating to 2001, including one for attacking a Seminole Reservation Police Officer the day before he allegedly broke into Granger's home.
Granger does not face charges. The second oldest child in the family, he often goes to the range at Markham Park to practice shoot with his father. He was never a victim of crime before, but calmly went through all the gun safety steps his father taught him, even after one gun jammed after the first shot Saturday.
He even locked up the guns after Jumper left, before he checked on his mother. "My husband tried to get everyone to learn the safety of a gun," Chandler said. "It paid off."
Marlene Naanes can be reached at mnaanes@sun-sentinel.com or 954-385-7922.
This is why I oppose gun lock laws and gun safe laws; when you need a weapon of self defense, you need it NOW.
This is why I refute the contention that anti-gun legislation makes people safer.
This is why I regard with scorn the people who claimed that Florida's new "No Retreat" self-defense law would "return us to the days of the Wild West."
And as for why I want anti-gun laws stripped from the books, consider this: in California or New York, the kid would be in the cell next to the intruder for unlawful use of a firearm... and in Great Britain, the intruder would be out on the street while the kid was in jail for attempted homicide.
Finally, to you who point out that the kid was trained, and that there's no guarantee without licensing and registration of guns that everyone will be trained: there's no guarantee that everyone with a gun will be competent and well-meaning even WITH licensing and registration. There IS, however, a guarantee that someone, indeed a lot of someones, who NEEDS a gun will NOT have one because of such laws.
If it makes you feel better, how about this? If physical education and sex education are mandatory in public schools, why not gun education? Begin with basic DON'T TOUCH in the early years, then basic weapons safety, then when to use and not to use firearms (and REPEAT that lesson!!), then marksmanship, then in junior high teach 'em how to clean and repair. By the time they get out, they'll be able to defend themselves and others- and they'll be on a level playing field with those who want to hurt others. Fair enough?
EDIT: For a lighter view of knowing when and when not to shoot, check today's Freefall (5-26-06):
http://freefall.purrsia.com/
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Date: 2006-05-28 12:03 am (UTC)A security system would have done NOTHING in that situation.
Hell, yes, it's worth the risk. Firearm accidental deaths- ALL accidental deaths- run fewer than 1,500 per year nationwide. Columbine-type shootings have happened only five times in the past fifteen years. By comparison, there are tens of thousands of -documented- uses of firearms to protect life and limb, never mind undocumented cases in areas where firearms are essentially illegal. Most importantly, there is no evidence whatever to demonstrate that locking up weapons, or licensing them, or registering them, reduces either crime or accidents one iota... and some evidence that laws requiring such INCREASE crime and accidents both.
The simple fact is this: if and when you are attacked, there will NOT be a cop nearby, and your attacker will almost certainly be armed with a knife, a club, or even a gun. Your only hope for defending yourself is to be armed and skilled with a firearm. If you're not armed... well, you'd just better hope some deranged criminal doesn't smash in your front window and attack your family.