TN: Home invader shot: "A car thief and home invasion robber is dead after a shootout with a homeowner in Hickory Hill. Memphis police are investigating the homicide in the 3700 block of Hyacinth, near Winchester and Mendenhall. Investigators say a man who had been breaking into cars on Hyacinth forced his way into a home around 2:30 a.m. Friday, March 28, 2008. Once inside, the crook got into a gunfight with the homeowner. The intruder was killed and the homeowner was rushed to The Med with a gun shot wound. He is in non-critical condition and preparing to give police a statement. Police did not know what motive the car thief had for breaking into the home."


IA: Pizza man shoots robber: "Police say a pizza delivery man shot an attempted robber in Des Moines. Officials say they received a call late Thursday from the delivery man, saying another man tried to rob him at gunpoint. Police say the delivery man shot the alleged robber. Another call came in to authorities reporting a man was shot on the second floor of an apartment building. Authorities say the man who was shot was in serious condition at a nearby hospital. The delivery man surrendered to police at the scene. The investigation is continuing."


Only 10%! "More than one in 10 of the nation's airline pilots are cleared to carry a handgun while flying, and the number will continue to grow, according to a Transportation Security Administration projection. The TSA, which has declined to disclose the number of armed pilots, revealed in a recent budget document that 10.8% of airline crewmembers were authorized to carry guns. The Federal Air Marshal Service, a TSA agency that runs the armed-pilots program, reports that 85,000 to 90,000 pilots and crewmembers flying domestic passenger and cargo planes are eligible to carry a gun. That puts the number of armed pilots at about 9,500 - a figure Air Marshal spokesman Nelson Minerly did not dispute. The marshal service keeps the exact number confidential. The TSA projects the program to grow to 16.5% of eligible pilots by the year 2011."


The 2nd Amendment's spirit: "This country was brought about by revolution: farmers and tradesmen rising up against a government that was taxing unfairly and, in general, oppressing them. The framers of the Constitution realized that this was an ongoing fact of humankind, which it addressed with the right to keep and bear arms and the encouragement to rise up and abolish your own government once it crossed the line from beneficial to thieving and corrupt. At that time, that average citizen had the means to do this. A musket was pretty much state of the art, and government-equipped militias and armies had little advantage over the layman, at least in a guerilla war. I'm a peaceful man, don't even own a real gun, and it's obvious that an out and out revolution wouldn't work today. Still, the spirit of the 2nd Amendment must remain. Can you imagine a country where only the police and army have guns? The corrupt politicians who give them their work orders can".