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Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Fool Me Once Edition

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An Elyria, Ohio man’s home was burglarized Wednesday night and a light-fingered thief made off with the man’s TV. So Thurday night, according to myfox8.com, the homeowner decided to spend the night with his gun on the first floor in case lightening — and the prowler — struck twice. “Investigators say it appears as though the same burglar returned to the home the next morning, and was shot after he crawled in through an unlocked window…Lieutenant Andrew Eichenlaub of the Elyria Police Department told Fox 8 reporter Elisa Amigo that the 53-year-old Water Street man pulled out a gun and fired shots when the 29-year-old burglary suspect lunged at him.” The un-named thief has since assumed room temperature, but here’s the good news: “Ohio’s Castle Doctrine gives homeowners the right to defend themselves from intruders.”

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