Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 6, 2012

Tonya Beck saw a stranger climbing over the back fence of her Kansas City home early on August 4^th. The night before, two men had attempted to break into her home and were chased away by her dog.

Beck grabbed her .22 pistol and confronted the third invader. When the stranger lunged at Beck, she fired a shot at him, which missed but was sufficient to drive him away. Police arrived shortly thereafter. One of the officers told her that she had done the right thing. Yet the 57-year-old woman has been issued a criminal summons for discharging her weapon in self-defense.

In a similar case last May, police in Mesquite, Texas arrested Terry Nye for firing a warning shot into the ground to drive away a burglar. The police insisted that Nye should have called 911, rather than defending his own property.

Last February, 61-year-old Dennis Fleming was charged with a felony for firing a warning shot to apprehend a suspected burglar. That charge was dropped following a national outcry.

Never forget that while there are worthy individual exceptions, the police as an institution exist for the purpose of asserting the government?s monopoly on force, rather than to protect the citizenry.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.