Assault with weapons 7

RantWoman feels this peculiar call right now to chronical gun episodes in her physical or conceptual  vicinity. This one occurred within spitting distance of RantWoman’s apartment, around the corner at a time when RantWoman was home. RantWoman thinks she was dozing and woke up from the sirens but did not register the event until she read about it in various mobile phone info streams.

Approximately 12:30 am yesterday morning, a 63-year-old man was sleeping in his car when two car-prowling miscreants tried to break into his car. The older man dealt with these intruders using his .357 magnum.  The two car prowlers wound up in the hospital “with non life-threatening injuries;” the older man wound up in jail because the detectives investigating the incident considered his continued firing excessive.

RantWoman feels called to say a prayer for all involved. RantWoman does not particularly want to excuse gunfire, but nevertheless can make a case that intruding into a person’s sleep late at night ought to be understood to be more dangerous and objectionable than, say, playing one’s radio too loudly next to someone else’s car at an intersection. RantWoman thinks it would be very fair for the car dweller to find his way to safer sleeping space as a result of this episode.