You gotta love a story with a happy ending like this...

A 12-year-old girl took matters into her own hands during a home invasion in southeast Oklahoma.

It happened on Wednesday when the girl was home alone. She told police a stranger rang the doorbell, then went around to the back door and kicked it in. She called her mom, Debra St. Clair, who told her to get the family gun, hide in a closet and call 911.

OK, Mom and the cops both headed for the scene...but events wouldn't wait for either of them.

During that time, the intruder made his way through the house. St. Clair's daughter told deputies the man came into the room where she was hiding and began to open up the closet door. That was when the 12 year old had to make a life-saving decision.

"And what we understand right now, he was turning the doorknob when she fired through the door," said the Bryan County Undersheriff Ken Golden.

Surprise!

The bullet hit the intruder, who deputies identified as 32-year-old Stacey Jones. He took off but did not get far before officers took him down.

*clap*clap*clap*clap*clap*

Yeah, the goblin managed to survive. But that doesn't take away from what that girl did. She had to have some serious ovaries to make a judgment call like that. I sincerely hope this is her first--and last--gunfight. But she makes a hell of a gunfighter.

Her mother raised her well...and was foresighted enough to provide her with the tool she needed to keep herself from being raped or killed. Or more likely both.

The story comes to us via Karl Denninger, who reminds us:

Your unalienable right to life does not come into existence at 18 or 21. It is just as applicable when you're 12 as when you're 75, when you're a 4'10" 90lb woman as a 260lb 6'2" man.

Your unalienable right to life is meaningless unless you are able to defend it, if necessary, no matter where you may be.

And it is a fact that on rare occasion you may need to do exactly that.

It is for this precise reason -- your right to defend your life against any who may try to take that right from you -- that the 2nd Amendment exists and must not be diminished, abrogated or infringed.

Couldn't agree more.  Self-defense is a human right.

Sounds horrible. That's when you really need gun there. Here in Finland the girl would go to jail because its illegal to shoot burglars...

That's the case in England, too, FNWF, more's the pity. Many states in the U.S. have what's called the "Castle Doctrine" (as in "A man's home is his castle") that explicitly allows use of deadly force against unauthorized intruders. The law here in Colorado that implements that is commonly known as the "Make My Day Law."