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Okla. Woman Shoots, Kills Intruder: 911 Operators Say It’s Okay to Shoot

Recently widowed, young, single mom cowering in a bedroom with her infant child, on the phone with 911 as two men force their way into the house…..pretty much pushes all the ‘righteous shooting’ buttons.

The only way this shooting could possibly be more justified is if the bad guys were the re-animated zombie corpses of Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden wearing dynamite sport jackets and holding a molotov cocktail in each hand.

Part of me wants to say that, if there were an afterlife, her husband would be very proud of her. But, then again, that was exactly the proper response for that situation so I’m not sure excess pride is warranted for doing something that your supposed to do anyway. Regardless, it’s a just and proper ending to what could have been quite a tragedy. Poor gal is probably still grieving from losing her husband, now she’s got to deal with the emotional aftermath of this incident.

I’m going to ignore the part about asking the 911 guys if it was okay to shoot the bad guys. The threshold for that kind of response was met long before they came through the bedroom door. I understand that no agency is going to want to be on the hook for ‘giving permission’ for someone to shoot someone else, but at least they gave the veiled and coded approval with the ‘do what you have to do’ answer.

Man, I bet that shotgun left a real mess behind.