I love stories with happy endings.

In North Las Vegas, six burglars brazenly broke into a house while the homeowners were still inside. At least one of them was armed. Steve describes to the Las Vegas Sun how the perpetrators started beating on his front door and then kicked it in. He and his wife barricaded themselves in their bedroom while burglars were trying to open the bedroom door to get at them. Steve and his wife kept their head. Steve's wife was dialing 911, while Steve unlocked his gun safe to retrieve his .380 pistol.

Steve loaded the firearm and shot two of the suspects, one in the shoulder and one in the buttocks. The suspects fled, but the man wounded in the buttocks was unable to scale the wall in the back yard and was apprehended. Steve's neighbors helped out by purchasing and re-hanging a new front door, and scrubbing the blood stains out of his carpet. (That is a good neighbor)

While Steve did the right thing and was justified in protecting his home and family, I have a few suggestions for him:

-- Never aim for the head, as he had admittedly done. A persons head is a small target, and you risk just grazing them. The body is a much bigger target, and a double tap to the chest is much more likely to fall an intruder.

-- I understand you have children, but locking up your gun in a safe may have cost you and your wife your lives. Locking up your unloaded gun put you even further at risk.

-- Next time shoot to kill. Dead men don't sue.

-- Take your neighbors out to dinner.

This time the story had a happy ending. While gun control weenies would prefer to see Steve and his wife hide in their closet while they wait for police to arrive, I don't follow that philosophy. Sure, peeing yourself and begging for mercy may save your life, but a hail of bullets almost always does. And if it just wasn't meant to be, like MonkEspank always says, "I'd rather be gang-raped after I'm murdered than before."