[Video] 11 Year Old Girl Defends Home with .22 Rifle (2010)
December 20 2010
by Dan Cannon
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| Gun(s) Used: | .22 | Location: | Unknown |
| # of Suspects: | Unknown | Shots Fired: | Unknown |
| Suspect Killed: | Unknown | State: | |
| Source: | krqe.com | Archived Source: | WebCite.org |
This 11 year old girl refused to be a victim. She was ready and willing to use her .22 rifle to defend her home if it came down to it. This is also a fine example of the mere presence of a firearm deterring a crime without a single shot being fired.
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She did the right thing , she was very brave .
Wanted to steal their guns? REALLY? Sounds like they got off lucky to me! Yeah, LUCKY THEY DIDN’T GET THEIR ASSES FILLED WITH LEAD!
GOD Bless her
Way to go girl glad you stood up and exercised your 2nd amendement rights
Would a NRA…. TC or Instructor please give this girl a free rifle course? She needs a few more lessons to keep that finger off the trigger when she handles that firearm. What a brave girl!
Good girl.
Good work. It’s a shame that people now consider people kids until they are old enough to graduate from college. Not that long ago almost any kid who didn’t live in a big city knew how to shoot
Brave girl! This is how guns saves lives.
Anyone care to speculate what might have happened to this courageous young lady had she been living in Chicago or New York City? A single shot bolt action .22 rifle would not be my choice for home defense,particularly in a multiple armed perpetrator home invasion. However,this young lady is living proof that a prepared and resolute non-victim can decisively compensate for less than optimum equipment. ….Take that Bloomberg – you feculent hoplophobic communist wretch!
I applaud this girl for her courage. If she had been unarmed (as the liberals demand)….well, there are too many stories about what happens to kids who are defenseless, especially girls.
But a bolt-action .22 is good for squirrels, not for bipedal snakes. Mom and Dad should take her to a range and teach her how to use a .38 or 9mm. Then, if three scumbags break in all three of them will have an equal chance of learning a very painful lesson.
In the meantime, you go, Girl!
Good for her, but sad she was put in this situation. Glad she didn’t actually have to shoot another person, and that the show of readiness to use force was sufficient.
I wont say she exercised her Second Amendment Rights. She, along with everyone else, has a God given right to defend themselves.
The Second Amendment does not give us the right of self defense. It is intended as a restriction on government from interfering with or prohibiting the free application of the God given right of self defense.
Please always think of the first ten amendments as a Bill of Restrictions on Government or as A Bill of Protected Rights. Do not think of the first ten amendments as a Bill of Rights granted to us by government. There is a huge difference between the two.
I only regret that she did not kill any of them. She would have had as many as three skulls to hang above her bed.
Good girl! Next time, kill!
I praised this girl on You Tube and had nearly sixty e mails from people who tore her apart. They declared she should have called the police and waited, that she should have found out what they planned on doing first, that it was her family’s fault for owning guns in the first place, they condemned America for being a place where a girl that young had access to a gun. I was called every name in the book and cursed over and over. It made me sick to think of that collossal level of stupidity.
I am second amendment lover but this little girl should not have been able to access her rifle by her self. My daughter has a .22 cal cricket rifle and it is locker in my gun safe with a trigger guard on. Access to fire arms like this is the cause of the accidents that anti-gun people thrive on to take away our rights. We as responsible gun owners should have our fire arms secured to prevent things like this . In proud she was willing to defend herself but not like this .
HOW then???? Take your daughter to the range or the woods and train her to use them children do not “play” with what they respect.
Firearms accidents are actually very rare. As long as children are correctly taught about firearms, there is no harm in it.
Home alone IV –
Sad, because there was nobody there to do the job – now she’s a hero.
Imagine this wend wrong and her guts wend all over the floor
because somebody replied with an AR-15 snickers 20% extra
She is lucky – and the parents would be learned not to leave their
pressious alone at home – with or without guns.
Let me ask: would you go out and give your 11 y old an AR-15
bye honey, and remember.. point and pull
The liberal morons who hate the boy scouts, hate the girl scouts, hate the NRA’s youth programs, are so dumb, they think the girl was just left to use the gun without any instruction from their parents.
Back in the 1700s 11-year olds were probably working Full Time jobs, caring for the younger kids, and helping their parents manage the household.
This girl did the right thing, and liberals would probably be out to punish her and her parents for daring to defend the house if she had to open fire.
Brave young girl. Very glad that she thought fast and was able to defend her self. Teaching family members how to use a gun (safety) is always great. I taught my two sons and my wife. Teach them safety first and then how to use a gun and take them to the gun range. Gun control, this is where gun control starts.
That little girl is VERY lucky that she did not have to shoot in self defense. That little crickett is a single shot and she wouldn’t have a chance against 3 attackers. My daughter (also named Alyssa!) has the same rifle, and I’m going to be certain to teach her how to use it correctly.
I THINK ALL GIRLS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO SHOOT AND HANDLE A FIRE ARM! YOU GO YOUNG LADY! GOOD JOB!
I’d be proud to call her my daughter. Good for her.
Guns Save lives?
Howmany do you own, 5, 6 guns
and matching ammo – it’s either
well stored or in direct access.
If you believe that guns are tools
like spoons – there direct access tools.
if you agree it’s like spoon, you’re a
bad gunkeeper.
I thought a well educated medic would save lifes.
But guns only take one or more lives.
for the Slow learners –
check latest life taking action
by toddler owning a 22 –
my first rifle – and my first kill, too
great life starter –
condolences to the parents.
That doctrine may have worked
in times where there was no medicine man
or voodoo doc for you at local-hill 66.
Give me an good example how
guns save lives and i join the NRA.
I never used a gun for saving a live..
but maybe i could crack open a
can of food – that might save a live.
If you sell all your guns –
you kids finally could make it
to college – that also saves lives.
You know what else you could do to save a life? Stop writing these asinine, nonsensical poems. My eyes bled for hours after reading that “comment”.
In response to your question, guns can’t truly save lives. They can’t cure a diseased man or fill a starving child’s belly. They can, however, in the right hands, protect lives. They can keep assailants at bay through the threat-not the action, but the mere threat-of death. If that doesn’t work, the gunowner may have to kill the assailant. But that is simply protecting yourself-and, in certain circumstances, others.
So, in short, guns cannot save a life-but they can protect lives.
Actually, I thought of a way guns can feed the hungry. There are several programs out there where hunters can donate their kills to homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and the like. Your argument has just become even more invalid.