Posted by
Bill of Rights on Saturday, December 08, 2007 1:52:39 PM
Twice recently I've read this story, and frankly, it disappoints me:
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Two illegal aliens, Ralphel Resindez 23 and Enrico Garza 26, probably believed they would easily overpower a home alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two story home.
It seems the two crooks never learned two things, they were in Montana and Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father's room and grabbed his 12 gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun.
Resindez was the first to get up to the second floor only to be the first to catch a near point blank blast of buck shot from the 11 year olds knee crouch aim. He suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive.
It was found out later that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. The victim, 50 year old David Burien, was not so lucky as he died from stab wounds to the chest.
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Now, here's a Snopes link, if you want, but I'm going to expand on this a little myself, too.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/homeinvasion.aspWhy does this story disappoint me?
The short answer is "Because it's not true."
One of the names in the story is close enough to that of a convicted serial killer and "illegal alien" (aka foreign-born criminal trespasser) to be a simple misspelling of questionable intent. The other is reportedly a musician.
The young lady apparently does not exist, except as an adult writer of children's mystery books. There were no stories in Montana around this time (or since) about these events, and I am of the opinion that they would be newsworthy enough, anti-gun bias notwithstanding, to at least draw comment. (The media is anti-conservatively biased as well, but they still report the facts, even if they slant them.)
I would very much like this story to be proven true, but it just ain't so. The part that disappoints me most is that while the Brady Bunch, the VPC, and many other anti-rights people lie, mislead, and "confuse" (I'm being generous) the facts to make people want to give up their guns, those of us who read the intent of the US Constitution for what it is, a clear statement that "...the right...shall not be infringed", have never needed to do so to support our thoughts, opinions, and beliefs. Lies need other lies to support them; the truth stands on it's own.
So, why do I post this clearly false story (when did you ever see a news story name a child if there was any sort of crime involved, even if s/he didn't commit it?) on a site that unabashedly supports the rights protected by our Second Amendment?
Simple. I want the story to be broadcast. I want it to receive lots of attention. I want people to see that while a liar in the Brady camp is quietly encouraged, praised, and lauded, lies coming from "our side", if in fact that was the source of this, are loudly and soundly denounced and pointed out for what they are, and if/when repeated, perhaps by people on "our side" who've not read the correction, those people are quickly corrected.
I will do so privately, if possible. I don't want to embarrass anyone, nor do I want to see someone's credibility diminished because of an error.
There are no emergencies you can run from and prevent the damage they cause. A fire will still burn, a heart attack still kills heart muscle and a violent crime still takes something-property, dignity, or life (theft, rape, or homicide, respectively)-that does not belong to the taker.
A fire extinguisher will stop a fire, CPR can preserve muscle temporarily, and a well-employed pistol can stop a crime. None of these are replacements for a fire department, an ambulance/emergency department, or police services/criminal justice system, but they help us make do 'til the professionals arrive.
Thanks for reading, and have a great day.