POLITICS - Why responsible kids need to have access to guns

[Old Ironsights]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... on&sub=new

The 12-year-old boy had finished his homework and was playing a video game when he heard his mother cry out. Rushing to her aid, he found her on the kitchen floor, straddled by a fellow resident of their Prince George's County boarding house, the man's hands wrapped tightly around her neck, the boy said yesterday.

"I kept saying, 'Stop! Stop! Stop!' " the boy said, describing the events of Monday night. "But he just ignored me. He didn't stop. He just kept hurting her."

The boy said he grabbed a knife and swung, slashing 64-year-old Salomon Noubissie across the neck and opening an artery. Noubissie was fatally wounded. ...

[Ysabel Kid]

Agreed - though in the case above, I'm just as happy that the guy got it in the throat and had a few seconds while bleeding out to realize the error of his ways!