Good Guy with a Gun #37: Sandy Springs, GA
Original incident: December 3, 2023. A home invader threatens an armed resident, with predictable results.
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Just after 2 AM on a quiet Sandy Springs street, an intruder forced his way into a home on Spalding Drive. Once inside, he threatened to harm the homeowner in front of his family.
The homeowner had a firearm. Another resident called 911 while the threat was still escalating.
The police are incredibly important for a civilized society, but they can’t possibly respond quickly enough to situations like this.
Sure enough, the homeowner fired his weapon, and when Sandy Springs police rolled up a few minutes later, the intruder was already dead from the gunshot wounds.
Police quickly called it an isolated incident, saying the homeowner, in “exercising his Second Amendment right to bear arms, defended himself and his family from bodily harm by shooting the suspect.”
Sources
There were several articles about this in local news. Atlanta News First, Patch, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (paywalled), GVwire, and 11 Alive.
AWR Hawkins also covered this story at Breitbart.
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