Laurel of Politics, Guns, and Beer, has posted a video about a woman who shot and killed her stalker after he broke into her house and attacked her.

The 911 call, released earlier this year, shows that the woman tried to do everything that the gun-grabbers say we should do. She called the police. She retreated as far as she possibly could. In the end, her stalker had gotten into her home and followed her into the bedroom, where he was attempting to strangle her before she shot him.

I tried to come up with a sarcastic title for this post, but just couldn’t bring myself to do it. When you hear any politician complaining about crimes committed with firearms, remember that the important word there is crimes, not firearms. Firearms are powerful tools that can be used for good or evil, and here is an example where the absence of a firearm would have saved a life, but it would have cost another. I don’t think anyone would argue that if it came down to a choice between this woman and her attacker (and her attacker had decided when he broke into her house that it was), that the attacker was more worthy of life.

It doesn’t appear any charges have been filed against this woman or the generous friend who gave her the gun, but, unfortunately, that’s not always the case.