!2 year old shoots home intuder

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Actually, there's another reason for a gun, it's to save life & limb. Police don't carry them (well in THEORY they don't) to execute people, they do it to save their lives and the lives of others.

In the vast majority of cases a gun used in self-defense isn't even fired because the attacker or home invader that sees it runs away. Even when the intruder is shot he usually survives (as in this case) because the police are typically on the way already from having been called, and if they're not then 911 is called immediately afterward (thugs who use guns, OTOH, don't call for help after). In any case (and the very rare case where a shooting in self-defense leads to death or permanent injury) it generally stops violence that was going to happen anyway and have, at times, turned armed mobs away after natural disasters, and that's why the point of a gun is to save lives, which they do.

And in this case, I don't know the details of what happened, but I'm sorry she went through that...but I'd rather she lived with shooting someone (who lived) than with what might've been done to her otherwise. As for the guy shot...no sympathy at all for him, hopefully he'll turn his life around now.