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| Senior Member | 12 year old stops FIVE armed home invaders with a gun Here's a perfect example of why proper firearms training should start at a young age. A gun is the great equalizer. In this case a 12 year old boy with a gun saves the day, even when greatly outnumbered. http://www.fox21.com/Global/story.as...av=menu149_2_1 Greenville, SC 12 Year Old Points Gun at Burglars; Group Takes Off July 20, 2006, 03:12 PM EDT An accused group of thugs were thwarted by a 12-year old with a gun. It happened in Greenville when police say five masked men stormed into a house and started beating up the child's father. FOX Carolina's Jamie Guirola reports, Try and picture it. A 12 year old walks into the living room, sees his mother frantically protecting the baby, and several strangers attacking his father. The 12 year old rushes out of the living room, but comes back pointing a gun at the five suspects. As of Monday night, all but one are in jail. These are the alleged home invaders without their masks. The youngest barely seventeen, the oldest just 20. George Dickert didn't have time to think about their ages when he tells us they broke into his home and tried to rob his family. George Dickert/Victim: "F*$# you! That's what I was thinking." Sunday night, George says, one of the suspects in the group followed him into his house after he smoked a cigarette. He tells us the man pulled out a gun, threatening him. When George reached for a different gun in self-defense, a fight broke out. George: "I work five days a week and my wife works six days a week. We're an honest couple. We do what we have to do to make a living and some idiot decided he wanted what I had." When the struggle started, police say, two other men came into the house and started beating on George. That's when George's 12 year old son made the move credited with scaring the accused thugs out of the house, and stopping the burglary without even firing the gun.' George: "He did what he had to do to protect his family last night. And a 12 year old child should never have to go through that. Even if he does know what to do, he should not have to do that." Police later found these four near George's home sweating and breathing heavily. Something George hopes they'll do again if they're convicted and sentenced to the max. George: "...And I will press and push and do whatever it takes to make sure every individual in it gets it." Police aren't releasing details about the fifth person they're looking for. George says he has five guns in the house. His taught his son how to use each of them.
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| Senior Member | Once again the evil gun helps another victim protect himself and his family! The irony is that if this happened in California the father would have probably been charged with storing a gun with out a trigger lock, and where a child could get to the gun… |
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| Senior Member | I'm very suprised it made the news, and made it without the usual anti gun BS they add in for no reason at all. Here's to that young man!!!!!!
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| Senior Member ![]() | Gio, the peacenics will love that a "child" had access to a firearm and turn this story into that, given a chance. Kudos to the father for teaching basic life lessons to his son, regardless of the stigma from some of the unenlightened in our society.
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