10-year-old Wash. boy defends mom with BB gun

[Abin Sur]

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/16104717/10-year-old-wash-boy-defends-mom-with-bb-gun?URL=http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/16104717/10-year-old-wash-boy-defends-mom-with-bb-gun

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) - Police in Bellingham, Wash., say a 10-year-old boy defended his mother from an attacker by shooting him in the face with a BB rifle as many as four times.

The man accused of the attack rents a room in the woman's home and came home drunk and angry Tuesday morning. Police say he kicked in a bedroom door and started choking the woman.

Officers say the boy hit the attacker with a board and then shot him in the face with the pump-action BB rifle as he grappled with the woman.

The woman and boy were able to flee to a neighbor's home and call for help.

The 45-year-old man was treated at a hospital and arrested for investigation of assault and making death threats.

[jeepnstein]

1. If that's all you got...

I suppose it was a better force multiplier than using a chair or frying pan.

[jmg257]

2. Sick kid with a sick & childish BB gun. Nothing good can come of that! nt

[poverlay]

6. How, exactly, does defending his mother make the kid, or his weapon, sick?

I call saving his mother's life a very great good! Perhaps you were just being sarcastic?

[jmg257]

7. The 2nd thing... ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=479588&mesg_id=479588

[LAGC]

3. So sad that people are feeling so desperate that they have to resort to renting out rooms...

...of their own house to potentially unstable people, just to make ends meet.

I'm afraid we'll be hearing a lot more about such "domestic disputes" in the future...

[lumpy]

4. Mom should be damned proud of that boy-Good for him!

v

[demigoddess]

8. yes, that is what I thought

took guts. More than most people.

[dmallind]

5. Now that boy has balls! Little ones, but made of steel.

[krispos42]

9. "You'll shoot his eye out! You'll shoot his eye out! You'll shoot his eye out! " n/t

[ileus]

10. rude toter wannabe...

[PuffedMica]

11. I bet his rudeness was learned by playing video games.

[Upton]

12. This kid is a hero..

yet there are antis who, if they had their way, would have made sure this kid wouldn't have even been allowed to own the BB gun he just used to save not only his mom's life, but possibly his own as well..

[Abin Sur]

13. Some antis already *do* have their way regarding BB guns.

Look at the laws in New Jersey, for instance, where BB guns and slingshots are treated the same as centerfire rifles, and require you to be fingerprinted(!) to purchase them.