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sylvi

(813 posts) Mon Apr 29, 2013, 12:37 PM Apr 2013

NRA Talking Points™ spewing gun fetishist holds home invaders at gunpoint [View all]

EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - An Evansville man who held two home invasion suspects at gunpoint until police arrived shared his story with 14 News.
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Matt was behind his bedroom door when out of nowhere, he says two men kicked in the front door of his Idlewild Drive home.

"I raced for the gun vault and had my gun in my hand in 5-seconds and then answered the door," says Matt.
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Matt says the suspects were surprised and with no other options didn't move until police arrived. For two-long-minutes, Matt's pistol stayed locked on his targets loaded and at the ready.
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Both suspects remain in the Vanderburgh County Jail charged with armed burglary and robbery with a firearm.

[url]http://www.14news.com/story/22083263/home-owner-shares-story-on-holding-invader-at-gunpoint[/url]

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NRA Talking Points™ spewing gun fetishist holds home invaders at gunpoint [View all] sylvi Apr 2013 OP

What? He didn't politely & rationally submit? Unbeliegeable. Eleanors38 Apr 2013 #1

What? Gun in a vault and he still had time to retrieve it? DrDan Apr 2013 #2

could be one of these gejohnston Apr 2013 #3

Anyone that owns a handgun should have that or something similar... friendly_iconoclast Apr 2013 #5

This story is bullshit- it doesn't mention him shooting a family member or innocent neighbor... friendly_iconoclast Apr 2013 #4

How many gun homicides took place the same day as this incident? rdharma Apr 2013 #6

Okay, I give up. sylvi Apr 2013 #7

Figure the number of firearms homicides per year and divide by 365..... rdharma Apr 2013 #8

Oh, I thought this was a pop quiz or something sylvi Apr 2013 #9

How many unreported DGUs? ProgressiveProfessor Apr 2013 #10

How many do you IMAGINE there were? rdharma Apr 2013 #11

using the lowest estimate gejohnston Apr 2013 #13

DGUs like this one? rdharma Apr 2013 #12

anecdotal evidence much? bossy22 Apr 2013 #14

Reality vs. John Wayne movies rdharma Apr 2013 #16

and he liked yellow flower wall paper gejohnston Apr 2013 #17

He really knew how to rock a pair of espadrilles, too: friendly_iconoclast Apr 2013 #25

so, how did it go at trial? gejohnston Apr 2013 #15

How did it go at trial? rdharma Apr 2013 #19

because trials tend to be where the truth comes out gejohnston Apr 2013 #20

Well, would you check into that for us, gejohnston?......... rdharma Apr 2013 #22

no. gejohnston Apr 2013 #23

I guess you missed it. I don't care what happened. rdharma Apr 2013 #24

And what relevance does that have to the OP? derby378 Apr 2013 #18

I thought the OP was about "gun fetishists" eom rdharma Apr 2013 #21

It's just stuff, nothing worth threatening someone over. ileus Apr 2013 #26

False advertising. Pholus Apr 2013 #27

Not in the story sylvi Apr 2013 #28

"NRA Talking Points™ spewing gun fetishist" in this house? Pholus May 2013 #29

For the record, just because a gun owner properly defended his home Blue_Tires May 2013 #30

No one says they aren't sylvi May 2013 #31

as long as we're on the same page... Blue_Tires May 2013 #32