FTA: “The violence inflicted on this law-abiding family will amaze and anger you, but their courage will inspire you.
“Oh yeah, one other little detail. Had the family not had guns in the house, they, and probably their grandson, would be dead. And yet, this is not the whole story. In this and other cases in our book, the dramatic “story behind the story” is often as exciting as the climax.”
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post wrote that the Second Amendment is the ‘refuge of bumpkins and yeehaws who like to think they are protecting their homes against imagined swarthy marauders desperate to steal their flea-bitten sofas from rotting front door porches,’” the preface to Robert A. Waters’ and Sim Waters’ “Guns and Self-Defense” recounts. “Well, not quite.”
“Not quite,” indeed. As the subtitle indicates, the “1st in a series” book by the father/son authors features “23 Inspirational True Crime Stories of Survival with Firearms.” And “inspirational” by no means covers the gamut of emotions I felt when going through gripping tales of real people defending themselves and others, compiled from news accounts, police reports, 9-1-1 calls, court transcripts and interviews with the people involved.
We are plunged right into the account of an armed neighbor who stopped a “sadistic rampage” by a “heavy-set attacker” holding a 12-inch knife to his former fiancé’s throat while trying to drown their one-year-old twins. Then there’s the terrifying blow-by-blow of an octogenarian couple brutally attacked by an armed home invader who two days earlier had gone on “a random killing spree.”
by David Codrea
