Grandmas With Guns

This great-grandmother, Eleanor Lynn in Akron, Ohio, has been robbed before and didn't want it to happen again.

"I already had the gun out," she said. "Somebody was breaking into my house so I took the gun out and went to the door. They flew."

This one happened back in February, when an 87-year-old woman shot an intruder.

Police said they found the man, Larry D. Tillman, 49, of East St. Louis on the enclosed front porch of the woman’s house in the 2100 block of Gaty Avenue. He had pulled the telephone wires from the side of the house, then removed security bars from a porch window.

As the man was breaking through a storm door that leads into the house itself, the woman fired several shots through her front door, striking Tillman once in the chest.

Police said the shots were fired from a pistol, most likely a gun that her daughter had given her after a man broke into the elderly woman’s house in December, battered her and stole some items.

Finally, a 56-year-old Tucson, AZ, woman scared off a robber with her gun.

The robber implied he had a gun, so the woman complied with his order and gave him $1.50, hoping he would leave, Wilson said. Then, thinking her life was in danger, she drew a Smith & Wesson revolver and pointed it at the robber, who ran away.

The woman — whose name was not released by police — had a concealed-weapon permit, Wilson said.

What especially interested me about the last one is the way the Arizona Daily Star ended the article:

For more information on concealed-weapon permits, visit the Arizona Department of Public Safety's Web site at www.dps.state.az.us/ccw.

That's no left-wing, gun-control newspaper!

For all the anti-gun propaganda spewed by the usual suspects in the media, these stories only emphasize how much guns can be equalizers for people who otherwise would be defenseless against crime. Instead, these three women are alive and well, and their attackers are either thinking twice about their crimes, or they aren't thinking about anything at all. Good for them.