🚀 go-pugleaf

This couldn't have been done in one of the cowardly countries that oppress 
the human rights to self defense and to keep and bear arms.

http://tinyurl.com/bre7tzv

Alabama Woman Shoots Home Intruder to Protect Herself and Her Ax- and 
Knife-Wielding Daughters

Posted on August 17, 2012 at 12:49pm by Madeleine Morgenstern

Martha Lewis shot an intruder in her home to protect herself and her 
daughters. (Image source: WVTM-TV)

An Alabama woman said she was forced to shoot an intruder that broke into 
her home this week in order to protect herself and her daughters.

Martha Lewis of Dora, Ala. told WVTM-TV it was about 3 a.m. Tuesday morning 
when she heard a loud noise, which turned out to be someone kicking in her 
door. Lewis said she called the police and grabbed her gun, then went to 
her daughters� room and told them each to get something to defend 
themselves with. She said one grabbed an ax and one got a butcher knife.

They were at the top of the stairs when they saw a man standing there at 
the bottom.

�I knew when he stepped on the landing that I would have to shoot him,� 
Lewis told the station. �He starts like coming up the stairs and he said, 
�would you shoot me?� And I said �I don�t want to have to but I will.��

Ignoring her warnings, the man kept coming � and that�s when Lewis said she 
fired.

�It wasn�t like, oh can I pull the trigger? It was like when should I 
shoot? When will he be close enough that I know I won�t miss him? That�s 
one of the things that was going through my mind,� she said.

The man stumbled outside into the yard where police found him, WVTM 
reported. Police said he�s 25-year-old Michael Jacobs and was hospitalized 
in stable condition.
Alabama Woman Martha Lewis Shoots Home Intruder to Protect Herself and Her 
Daughters

Lewis said she woke up when she heard a loud noise, which turned out to be 
an intruder kicking in her door. (Image source: WVTM-TV)

Lewis told the station one of the responding police officers said it would 
have been a different situation if she hadn�t been armed.

�One of them said we would be writing up a different report if she had not 
had that gun,� Lewis said.

Police said Lewis will not be charged for shooting the suspect. He faces 
charges of burglary and criminal mischief as well as possession of 
marijuana and drug paraphernalia, according to WVTM.

Lewis said she�s had the gun for about three years but only for protection 
purposes.

�There�s so much talk about banning guns and gun control but they�re for 
protection,� she said. �There�s no way that I could have fought him off.�