Indiana Clerk Wrestles Gun From Would-Be Robber: "Clerk Deme Momar found himself in a fight for his life soon after the would-be robber came into the store. "The clerk recognized him from coming in and out and being around the neighborhood," said Indianapolis Metro police Detective Leon Benjamin. The man waited for a customer to leave the store, then convinced Momar that he needed help with the ATM machine. "His plan was to lure the clerk from behind the secure area where the cash register was located," Benjamin said. Momar made an exception to store policy and went to help the man, after which he was greeted with a sawed-off shotgun. "It's not easy if someone pulls out a gun on you and you are between life and death," Momar said. "He ... pulled out a shotgun on me and we fight and I take the gun out of his hand." The struggle continued for several minutes, until Momar was able to get the gun away from the man. "I let him go because I didn't know what ... to do. I couldn't shoot him, and he was begging me to let him go," Momar said. Police and Momar both said they think the man lives in the neighborhood. "He stay around here, not so far, and he used to drive a green (Ford) Explorer, two-door," Momar said. "That day, he was walking."


Kentucky: Teen Killed: "Police are investigating a burglary report in Bowling Green that led to the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy. Police say a homeowner called them on April 3 to say he had just shot a person who was breaking into his house. The juvenile victim [was Nathaniel Tate]. His body was sent to Louisville for an autopsy. "The homeowner confronted the burglar coming in the back door, according to his statements, and then shot the person, and that person is now deceased," said Officer Barry Pruitt, of the Bowling Green Police. Police have not named the homeowner, who told a 911 operator around 5:15 p.m. that he was asleep when he heard someone trying to break into his house. The man said he shot the burglar. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene from a gunshot wound." [A commenter says: "This kid has been burglarizing homes in this neighborhood for years"].


Why a peaceful society is an armed society: ""To hear the left scoff at the premise that an armed society is a polite society, you would think Americans are uncivilized barbarians just waiting for a chance to shoot each other. Such a backwards thought process isn't limited to gun control, their distrust of average Americans is rampant in the left's pantheon of ridiculous beliefs. Their duplicitous ways are exposed most readily when it comes to guns since they claim to champion the poor and then disarm them in the face of common criminals, and they claim to champion individual freedom except for when it comes to self-defense involving guns. Finally, their absurd notion that if everyone has to carry a gun then it proves society is unsafe flies in the face of common sense."


Understanding the Second Amendment: "As we await this summer's Supreme Court decision on District of Columbia v. Heller, it is important we have a good understanding of the Second Amendment.First we must know the Founding Fathers of the new American republic had all been rigorously educated in the classical European tradition and were not just backwoodsmen with a love of guns. They had studied the writings of great philosophers like Nicollo Machiavelli, Cesare Beccaria, Hubo Grotius and Charles Montesquieu, who, without exception declared a democracy could not exist without the right of the citizens to have and bear arms."