If Only They Had A Gun

Six years after a rape that left some of her internal organs permanently damaged, Tammy Chavez called her attacker “a sadistic abusing pervert” at his sentencing Thursday afternoon. The man, Victor Navarro, pleaded guilty in late July to sodomy and rape using a foreign object. The prolonged attack left Chavez “the most severely injured person I have ever heard of who lived,” said Chuck Ryder, a marriage and family counselor who has worked extensively with Chavez and her husband. More information here.

In the above situation, and countless others, innocent people have been harmed by the action of a criminal. Had there been an armed, law abiding citizen in the area, tragedy may very well have been averted. Americans use guns for self defense every 13 seconds, and that is perhaps the best reason to have a gun. These people are certainly glad they had a gun for self defense.