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Would you shoot the *?
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Would you shoot the *?
By NICKI FELLENZER
NICKI FELLENZER
What would you do to protect your family from a habitual abuser who won't take "No!" for an answer? What would you do if, despite a restraining order taken out against him, the abuser continued trying to infiltrate your home and your life?
Would you acquiesce and allow him in your home?
Would you rely on the police to protect you?
Would you allow him to hurt you? Your children?
Or would you shoot the * dead?
I know this is easier said than done. Taking a human life should never be a light matter, but when your life and the lives of your children are at stake, the choice becomes clear. That's the choice Angela Dodson of Frederick County, Virginia faced last night. As far as I'm concerned - in this situation in which no person should ever find themselves - she made the right choice.
Being a writer and a Second Amendment rights activist, I hear stories of guns being used in self-defense every day. But this one hit close to home.
I don't know Angela Dodson. She lives in Frederick County, just a few minutes' drive from my home. I've never met her, but we live in the same small, rural Virginia community. So when I read a newspaper account of her ordeal, it resonated deeply enough for me to sit down at my keyboard.
According to the newspaper report, Angela was home with her two children - ages 2 and 7 - yesterday evening, when her estranged husband, one Thomas Dodson attempted to break into her house. Angela had taken a restraining order out against her husband in April due to spousal abuse, but apparently that didn't stop him. Thomas Dodson drove to his wife's home, ripped out the telephone lines and tried to break down the back door in order to gain access to his estranged family. When this course of action failed, Dodson grabbed a rock, broke a window and climbed inside the house. Angela was forced to hide in her bedroom with her children, and as her estranged husband repeatedly attempted to break down the bedroom door, she allegedly defended herself with a .38 caliber revolver. According to the report, she aimed the revolver, shot through the door and wounded Dodson in the leg.
But her ordeal wasn't over yet.
After an apparent retreat, Dodson re-entered his wife's home and proceeded to pummel the locked bedroom door until he punched through one panel and attempted to gain access. That's when Angela allegedly shot him once again in the leg and another time in the head.
What was Angela Dodson to do? A man who had shown his propensity for violence before - enough to cause her to use legal channels to ensure he didn't abuse her again - was in her house. While we don't presume to know his intentions, they couldn't have possibly been good, as witnessed by his disabling the telephone in the house.
What would have happened if Angela didn't have that gun?
I don't want to speculate, since the visuals of the possibilities coming to mind are too horrific to imagine. However, just consider that whatever horrors are coming to mind, they would have happened in front of two young boys.
I can't possibly begin to imagine what Angela Dodson must have felt as she cowered inside her locked bedroom with a violent intruder pounding repeatedly at the door. I can't begin to envision the terror she must have experienced as she looked at her children and realized what she had to do. I can't imagine what was going through her mind as she pulled the trigger and killed the man she married.
I can only imagine what I would have felt in her place as a mother. When a violent intruder threatens your children, everything else becomes secondary. When you realize that their innocent lives are in your hands, and the only thing standing between them and bloodshed is you, there's nothing you wouldn't do. When you look into those trusting, innocent faces and you see how much they depend on you for their very survival, you realize that there's nothing more important in the world than their safety and well-being.
There's nothing you wouldn't do. NOTHING.
And so Angela Dodson did what I imagine any mother would do when her children's lives are at stake. She shot their father in front of them. What other choice did she have?
If it wasn't for that .38-caliber revolver, would Angela Dodson's children have a mommy today? Would they even be alive today?
So far charges have not been filed against Angela Dodson. I hope Frederick County officials realize that Angela Dodson had a right to defend her life and the lives of her children. I hope the Commonwealth's Attorney will choose not to punish Angela Dodson for the manner in which she defended those precious lives.
http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/archive.php?aid=500
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By NICKI FELLENZER
NICKI FELLENZER
What would you do to protect your family from a habitual abuser who won't take "No!" for an answer? What would you do if, despite a restraining order taken out against him, the abuser continued trying to infiltrate your home and your life?
Would you acquiesce and allow him in your home?
Would you rely on the police to protect you?
Would you allow him to hurt you? Your children?
Or would you shoot the * dead?
I know this is easier said than done. Taking a human life should never be a light matter, but when your life and the lives of your children are at stake, the choice becomes clear. That's the choice Angela Dodson of Frederick County, Virginia faced last night. As far as I'm concerned - in this situation in which no person should ever find themselves - she made the right choice.
Being a writer and a Second Amendment rights activist, I hear stories of guns being used in self-defense every day. But this one hit close to home.
I don't know Angela Dodson. She lives in Frederick County, just a few minutes' drive from my home. I've never met her, but we live in the same small, rural Virginia community. So when I read a newspaper account of her ordeal, it resonated deeply enough for me to sit down at my keyboard.
According to the newspaper report, Angela was home with her two children - ages 2 and 7 - yesterday evening, when her estranged husband, one Thomas Dodson attempted to break into her house. Angela had taken a restraining order out against her husband in April due to spousal abuse, but apparently that didn't stop him. Thomas Dodson drove to his wife's home, ripped out the telephone lines and tried to break down the back door in order to gain access to his estranged family. When this course of action failed, Dodson grabbed a rock, broke a window and climbed inside the house. Angela was forced to hide in her bedroom with her children, and as her estranged husband repeatedly attempted to break down the bedroom door, she allegedly defended herself with a .38 caliber revolver. According to the report, she aimed the revolver, shot through the door and wounded Dodson in the leg.
But her ordeal wasn't over yet.
After an apparent retreat, Dodson re-entered his wife's home and proceeded to pummel the locked bedroom door until he punched through one panel and attempted to gain access. That's when Angela allegedly shot him once again in the leg and another time in the head.
What was Angela Dodson to do? A man who had shown his propensity for violence before - enough to cause her to use legal channels to ensure he didn't abuse her again - was in her house. While we don't presume to know his intentions, they couldn't have possibly been good, as witnessed by his disabling the telephone in the house.
What would have happened if Angela didn't have that gun?
I don't want to speculate, since the visuals of the possibilities coming to mind are too horrific to imagine. However, just consider that whatever horrors are coming to mind, they would have happened in front of two young boys.
I can't possibly begin to imagine what Angela Dodson must have felt as she cowered inside her locked bedroom with a violent intruder pounding repeatedly at the door. I can't begin to envision the terror she must have experienced as she looked at her children and realized what she had to do. I can't imagine what was going through her mind as she pulled the trigger and killed the man she married.
I can only imagine what I would have felt in her place as a mother. When a violent intruder threatens your children, everything else becomes secondary. When you realize that their innocent lives are in your hands, and the only thing standing between them and bloodshed is you, there's nothing you wouldn't do. When you look into those trusting, innocent faces and you see how much they depend on you for their very survival, you realize that there's nothing more important in the world than their safety and well-being.
There's nothing you wouldn't do. NOTHING.
And so Angela Dodson did what I imagine any mother would do when her children's lives are at stake. She shot their father in front of them. What other choice did she have?
If it wasn't for that .38-caliber revolver, would Angela Dodson's children have a mommy today? Would they even be alive today?
So far charges have not been filed against Angela Dodson. I hope Frederick County officials realize that Angela Dodson had a right to defend her life and the lives of her children. I hope the Commonwealth's Attorney will choose not to punish Angela Dodson for the manner in which she defended those precious lives.
http://www.armedfemalesofamerica.com/archive.php?aid=500
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
Them ducks is wary.
Some questions come to mind. Where were this womans neighbors? This
guy had to be making a lot of rackett. It's amazing to me the cowardice of some people to not get involved.
It is apparent she only wanted to injure him enough to let him go away.
Sometimes a bullet to the head is the only way to stop a man who is
enraged. The guy was obviously going to do major * harm or
he wouldn't have kept coming.
The cell phone company should give her a phone just to use for 911.
Woods
How big a boy are ya?
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
A great rifle with a junk scope,....is junk.
The same thing! Guns would have been drawn, and the outcome would have been similer. The man was violent and the man could have had a weapon.(knife, gun, ect,) She could have not stopped him physicly, therefore, had to use a force greater to STOP HIM. His intent was not to be nice, but to harm or kill or cause serious * harm. It is sad she had to do this, but she did what she deemed proper to protect her family. Glad the guy is gone! He was EVIL! Good for her!
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"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
you can be king or street sweeper but everyone is going to dance with the reaper
It is sad, but certainly not amazing. Keep in mind that the majority of sheeple nowadays do not care a lick beyond making sure that they get theirs.
Sick and sad, but not amazing...
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As far as helping my neighbors, I have ran a intruder off with a .44 and chased him almost a mile before I figured he wouldn't come back! But when I got back to the house to talk to the officer I convienently hid the handgun. I believe that one officer saw me hideing it and just gave me a knowing nodd. Less paperwork that way.
Now as for shooting someone in my neighbors house, It would have to be them, me, or him! Prefferably him, Remember, If you shoot, you will have to go through alot to justify it.
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