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When an armed robber barged into a North Side motel room Wednesday night and ordered the six people there to the floor, he put a 70-year-old woman closer to her handgun.
The great-grandmother knelt between the beds, reached into her purse on the floor and pulled out her .357 Magnum pistol.
...The woman has a permit to carry a concealed gun, her son said, and carries the gun she inherited from her late husband...
She fired one shot at the robber, who staggered from the room, collapsed in the parking lot and died.
So far so good (altho I still think a purse is a lousy place to carry your gun)...
"It's a wonder she didn't shoot us all," said her 51-year-old son, who was preparing to hand over his cash when he heard the gunshot. "She's the worst shot in the world.
Even if true, he is a fool for saying this. Get that bar of soap...
"I was going into my pocket for money" when a shot rang out and the gunman ran from the room, the son said. "I thought I was shot. I didn't realize my mother had shot him. It was mass chaos."
He still wasn't sure what had happened when he went outside and saw the intruder's body in the parking lot. Then he heard a second shot. His mother, the gun at her side, had tensed up and "squeezed off another shot into the floor," he said.
Trigger discipline, Grams, trigger discipline. But at least you got rule 2 right. (And this is why there's more than one rule.
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Columbus police don't expect to file charges against the woman...
as it should be
...but said the case probably will be presented to a Franklin County grand jury as a routine procedure. The son said the officers who met with his family were "extremely supportive."
I think Grams was way more on top of things than her son or anyone else in the room...
