Here’s another pro-second amendment story that you will never see on the major news networks – a Texas boy who watched his sister and mother being raped during a home invasion by two men who later abandoned a plan to murder the three victims was able to grab a handgun and send the two individuals fleeing.
“The incident began about 4:30 a.m. when two men entered
the home and held three residents hostage. During the home invasion,
police accused one man, described only as white, of sexually assaulting
two women,” reports the Galveston County Daily News.
The suspects, subsequently named as 33-year-old Charles
Allen Jacobson III and 56-year-old James Ellis Barnett, then bound the
three victims and drove them to a nearby field. According to police,
Jacobson gave Barnett a handgun and told him to kill the three hostages
but Barnett refused.
The two suspects then drove the family back to their
home on Anne Drive, Webster, in order to dispose of evidence. It was at
this point that “the male juvenile victim was able to get free and arm
himself with a handgun which the family had,” said Chief Ray Smiley.
“He then confronted the suspects, who fled the scene”.
Barnett drove away in Jacobson’s pickup truck while
Jacobson attempted to hide in tall grass near a house under
construction, but was soon apprehended by neighbors and police who
chased him down. Barnett was later stopped and arrested after the
vehicle was spotted outside a convenience store.
Jacobson faces two counts of aggravated sexual assault
and two counts of aggravated kidnapping, while Barnett was charged with
two counts of aggravated kidnapping and one count of aggravated robbery.
Despite its gravity, the story has received no national media attention whatsoever, featuring only in local media outlets.
We only discovered the story because Alex Jones was on a
family vacation in Galveston and saw it in the local newspaper. Imagine
how many stories similar to this one occur across the country every
week and yet the vast majority of people never hear about it.
That’s because the establishment media habitually fails
to highlight examples where a firearm is used in self-defense to prevent
a crime.
Last month, a 70-year-old girls basketball coach in Detroit was
escorting two players back to their cars after practice when two men
accosted the girls and attempted to rob them. The coach, who had a
concealed carry permit, drew his weapon and fired at the two attackers
who then fled the scene.
In July last year, a 71-year old man stopped a robbery at a Florida internet cafe by
shooting back at two armed men who had brandished handguns and ordered
customers to get on the floor and hand over their money. Dramatic video
footage of the incident shows the two robbers fleeing as the elderly man
fires at them.
According to a 1993 National Self- Defense Survey conducted
by Gary Kleck, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Criminology and
Criminal Justice at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Americans
use guns to defend themselves against a confrontation with a criminal up
to 2.5 million times a year. This means that every day in America some
6,800 people use guns to protect themselves.
Scholars Clayton E. Cramer and David Burnett have documented how “a great number of tragedies — murders, rapes, assaults, robberies — have been thwarted by self-defense gun uses.”
However, only a fraction of those cases ever make the local news and barely any at all make the national news.
