GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — A 68-year-old Gastonia man says he scared off two men in ski masks trying to break in his home with his gun he can keep on his walker. And then he taped a note to his door saying if they try to break in his house again, he will be waiting on them.
Joseph Sapienza told The Gaston Gazette (http://bit.ly/1vx3JpO ) that he was watching TV Thursday night when he heard someone trying to pry open his door. He says he got his gun, put it in a holster in his walker and shuffled to the front door. He flipped on a light, yelled he was armed and threw open the door.
Sapienza says the men ran away. He says he put up the note to warn any other would-be robbers.
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Anything that doesn’t kill you the first time gets a second chance.
Ah, yes, another “successful defense with a gun” story for the NRA to glom onto. But it suffers from the same problems that afflict most such stories. Self-reported, with no witnesses. Based entirely on one person’s possibly mistaken impressions about what happened - the “home invaders” might have been a couple of raccoons, scratching at the door. There’s also the fact that if he had flipped on the light and thrown open the door, the would-be robbers might have taken off anyway, gun or no gun.
I’m not saying it can’t happen, but most of these stories fall into the “anecdote” category, rather than the “data” category.
The 68 year old forgot to mention to the reporter that the two very young men were screaming, trick or treat you crazy old fucker, as they ran away with candy flying.
And, that later he scared off a witch, a lion, a man bat and a herd of zombies. Doh!
“OK, maybe I can’t walk but I am STILL a badass!”
This guy isn’t related to that old fart in California who pulled a gun on the little girl selling Girl Scout cookies door-to-door with her dad is he?