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The lady's got a gun.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(Susan Buxton self defence)

The New American

| December 26, 2005 | Williamsen, Kurt | COPYRIGHT 2005 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A 66-year-old woman flushed out a criminal from inside her house and put a load of lead in him as he flew out the door.

In the hour before midnight on Tuesday, November 8, police chased a man speeding in a truck in Arlington, Texas. The driver of the truck, later identified as Christopher Lessner, eluded police when he jumped from the moving truck and fled on foot. Police scoured the neighborhood for more than an hour, but couldn't find him, reported the Arlington Star-Telegram.

Unbeknownst to the police, Lessner had gotten out of the immediate vicinity and had broken into the home of Susan Buxton to hide. At 12:45, Buxton got out of bed to let a puppy outside, and she noticed muddy footprints on her porch. She became suspicious that someone might have broken into her house.

Back inside, she became even more suspicious as she conferred with her 28-year-old granddaughter, Mandy Davis. Davis had awakened because she heard banging on a second-story window and then what sounded like glass breaking.

Then Buxton noticed a door ajar and items displaced. She already had a gun in hand, one that she used to stop marauding coyotes from attacking her dogs when she let them outside. ...

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