92-year-old man shoots intruder at home

Burglar is now one with the worms. Good day all, in another case of the good guys bleaching the gene pool, Verona, Kentucky resident Earl Jones terminated with extreme prejudice one Lloyd Maxwell.

In a story posted on NKY.com, Mr. Jones tells what happened:

Earl Jones had just turned off his new TV shortly after 2 a.m. Monday when he heard a bang in the basement.

The 92-year-old Boone County farmer walked eight paces to get his loaded .22 caliber rifle from behind the bedroom door. He unwrapped a beige cloth and returned to the living room, sitting in a chair with clear view – and shot – of the basement door, waiting with the gun across his lap.

Some 15 minutes later, when he heard footsteps moving closer up the stairs, he raised the rifle to his eye. The intruder kicked open the door. Jones fixed his aim on the center of the man’s chest and fired a single shot. The Boone County Sheriff later announced the death of the intruder, Lloyd (Adam) Maxwell, 24, of Richmond, Ky.

And a fine shot it was Mr. Jones. I hope you are doing ok.

“These people aren’t worth any more to me than a groundhog,” Jones told the Enquirer. “They have our country in havoc. We got so many damned crooked people walking around today.”

Yep. Looks like you’re doing just fine. And as to the others that broke into Mr. Jones’s home?

Two men with Maxwell, Ryan Dalton, 22, and Donnie Inabnit, 20, both of Dry Ridge, were charged with second degree burglary and tampering with evidence. Police say they removed Maxwell’s body from Jones’ Violet Road home.

That was nice of them. I like criminals who clean up after themselves after one of their number gets blown away by a law abiding, hard working citizen. Of course, there will be the usual investigations. It doesn’t appear that Mr. Jones was all that thrilled with local law enforcement’s response.

Jones didn’t like how deputies treated him. “They stood down there with their guns on me, yelling, `Get your hands up! Get your hands up!’” he said. “I told them, `I’m not putting my damn hands up.’”

Finally, he did. Police approached up the long gravel driveway, flanked by a field of tobacco that Jones rents to another farmer, and questioned him.

He is not happy that police took the rifle used in the shooting.

“How am I going to protect myself if they come back looking for revenge?” he said.

I’m sure someone will be more than happy to loan Mr. Jones a firearm so he may protect himself. As to the police response? Unless he was holding a weapon, they overreacted…again. For those who will start screaming that Mr. Jones’s response was way over the top, (Blowing away the bad guy), Kentucky has a castle law in place. (My home is my castle and I may defend it as needed)

Kentucky, like at least two dozen states, has a “Castle doctrine” enshrined in its laws. That’s the right to defend one’s home with deadly force.

Kentucky law allows the use of physical force if someone believes it’s needed to prevent criminal trespass, robbery, or burglary in their house.

The break-in was the third Jones has experienced on his farm this year. In April, thieves stole 90 head of cattle from the field behind his house. In August, burglars took from his house a television, a few thousands dollars cash and a personal check they unsuccessfully tried to cash and ripped his phone out of the wall.

“I can’t leave the damn house to do my work outside,” said Jones, removing his World War II veteran cap with his right hand and running his left through his thin white hair.

And, as usual, when seconds count, police are minutes…or hours away. There is a reason these laws are being passed. People are tired of being victims, and with moron judges and ACLU lawyers helping the criminals instead of the citizens. I am one of those people that feels that a criminal has no rights at all during the commission of a crime. If Mr. Jones had missed, and Mr. Maxwell Wormfood had surrendered, (Don’t shoot! I give up!), then Maxwell’s Wormfood’s rights would have kicked in. You know, a right to a lawyer, a right to a fair and speedy trial, a right to spend a very long time in jail after being convicted. You know, those rights. Under Liberal, Progressive, Moonbat beliefs, the average citizen only has the right to be robbed, beaten, raped and killed. Self defense? Are you kidding? In the UK, if you do anything to defend your self, YOU are the one who is going to jail, not the criminals. Americans have decided that this is wrong and the results are generally dead criminals. Just the way Ted Nugent likes it.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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