Right on Mr. Picket!
Thank God for the WWII generation.
But stabbed twice in the head and no charges of attempted murder?

That's what happens when the whimp generation goes up against the best generation. Good for him!

What would the king of wimps , Jack Layton say.

Runaway!!!!!

Thanks Kate for making my day. Like I said years ago, I think I love ya', how do you like me so far.

Great stuff!!!

Pat

He looks like a hero to me. Good on him.

In Canada he would be charged with about a dozen charges in order for one to be sure to stick.

they won't let you defend yourself in Canada - that American gentleman is a Hero, and those two punks deserve everything that's coming to them

Don't mess with Texas.

Yeah, you know, when you really think about it, you can see a direct link between this savage attack and Jack Layton. Somebody ought to look into that...

Misunderstood youth. Why do conservatives take the side of the evil senior citizens?

Does anyone remember the Tony Martin case in the UK about 8 years ago?

To make a long and outrageous story short: Mr. Martin shot two middle-of-the-night burglars in his home, a remote farmhouse in the Yorkshire countryside. One burglar died from the gunshot wound and the other caught a legful of birdshot.

(BTW, BOTH burglars had previous criminal records as long as your arm, including previous burglaries, and both had gotten the usual revolving door UK "justice", fines and tiny jail sentences on them.)

To make a long story short, BOTH the burglar AND Mr. Martin ended up going to prison! Mr. Martin actually served a longer sentence than the surviving burglar, because, according to the probation officer's report, "he refuses to express remorse for his crime"!

Then, to add further Kafkaesque absurdity to the whole thing, after Mr. Martin was released from prison, the surviving burglar got a British "human rights" lawyer to sue Mr. Martin for damages for his "crime" in shooting the burglar!

The case did fall apart though before going to court, when the burglar was caught behind the wheel of a stolen car.

In ten years time the hopeless perps will stick to purse snatching from granny.

Give them a chance to regain their pride. How about mine sweeping in Afghanistan.

Nice warm climes they are used to. Nice exciting holiday. = TG

In Canada he would have been guilty of owning a short barreled pistol a "prohibited" weapon

guilty of "unsafe" gun storage, pistols must be unloaded, trigger locked, kept in a locked case and separate from ammo.

he would have also had to have a gun owners license that included pistols and have the gun registered

He almost certainly would have been charged with excessive force since he "escalated" the situation by using a gun against knives

the authorities assert that these laws "protect" the public and establish a "culture of safety".

the police have no legal requirement to protect anybody either

an amazing number of Canadians think this is all a good thing and feel proud that they are so much better than Americans

what a country!

How true Bruce, the Canadian left wing has our government believing our criminals are a kinder, gentler sort.

And that, Jon-boy Daly, is what is what ties Jack Leighton into this. Jack's view of governanece makes no allowance for vicious, gratuitous criminals.

The thing about excessive force is, how is the average person who has never struck anyone in anger, supposed to know what level of force is excessive? The way I see it, if it was my baseball bat and me against a criminal, I wouldn't bunt for first, I'd go for a home run.

Back again. Couldn't help but comment. "guilty of owning a short barreled pistol a "prohibited" weapon. guilty of "unsafe" gun storage, pistols must be unloaded, trigger locked, kept in a locked case and separate from ammo.

Well...if he'd owned the short barreled pistol for a while he'd been "Grandfathered" into being able to own it. I've got a few.

Technically you can carry a loaded pistol on your person, concealed or openly, when on your own property. I wouldn't carry it openly, just because you'd more than likely have an unpleasant experience with the police that might turn lethal.

It says that you may not load a firearm in a place where it is unsafe to do so. Well, in a high hip carry on my property is a safe place to do so.

Just tossing that one into the mix. Plus in a rural area you can have a loaded rifle at hand for "varmints".

I'm not making it up. In Canada!!

Dave in Pa - the situation you described in the UK would most likely be the same in Canada if the same thing took place. And we wonder why crime keeps growing and getting bolder.

Reminds me of a couple of years or so back in New York City some guy tried to rip off an old lady in a wheel chair. She was "packing heat" and she she shot the s.o.b. dead. Beautiful, just beautiful.

We oughtta send out border guards down to this guy's house so they can arm up.

'Know first hand the WW11 generation "are a class unto themselves". They're, tough, patriotic,and resilient, exactly what this world needs more of today.

The Socialist/Left mindset would dictate this man plead with these dregs and die rather than defend himself with his weapon. They have the freedom to comment, thanks to men like this, but they sure are not qualified to.

That old dude just meted out some "social justice"!

And, yes, in this country, one can wind up in jail for defending one's self. It happened to me. Leaving a bar with a date, we were accosted by 3 drunken morons. One of them asked my date for a sexual favor, and all hell broke loose. The cop said he was forced to charge me with assault because he witnessed me putting the boots to the third idiot.

I am just processing my pardon now!

Gotta love that old guy! I agree with all who say we have got it dead wrong here in Canada (dead being the operative word here). In Canada the cops come, call the ambulance to pick up your body, arrest the perp(s), release on own recog (part of our "catch and realease" justice system).

In Texas, cops come, call the ambulance to take away perp's body and apologize for the inconvenience to you and your family. Nice and clean!

I love these happy ending crime stories...only in America....in Canada, France, Britain and other less civilized Fabian nations, this senior would have been expected to sacrifice his life to the state's big lie...the lie that socialists tell about disarming citizens for their own good.

All the same, there were some eccentric politics at play here, we note that these punks were only charged with minor felonies and there was no attempted murder charge...which is some kind of soppy way the DA's office shows sympathy for these little goblins getting shot up attempting to stab a senior to death....pffffttt I can't think of any more cowardly act than assaulting a senior.

I hope they feel those bullet wounds each day the rest of their lives...it'll give them a reminder to have empathy with the victims of criminal...like themselves.

In Canada, this elderly gent--bless him!--would probably be in jail now, with the perpetrators' identities being protected.

They'd end up in a Club-Med holding facility and some hotshot, bleeding-heart, leftie lawyer would probably have them out of the luxury slammer in no time flat (Young Offenders Act, you know).

Yikes. Can anyone deny that Canada's a Banana Republic North? That Crime Bill better pass through the Senate...

Pat said:

"It says that you may not load a firearm in a place where it is unsafe to do so. Well, in a high hip carry on my property is a safe place to do so."

Actually Pat if they really want to enforce the regulatory definitions in the FA administrative manual, you would be charged because the law is read to mean that the gun must not be loaded unless in a place where it may be legally discharged...legal discharge pertains to two things, if your city ordnance allows the discharge of arms withing city limits and whether your prohibited weapons permit states that you have this for target practice or collecting.

There have been a number of cases where the police seized and confiscated loaded hand guns from their lawful papered owners because they were registered as "collectors": and collectors, it is deemed, do not have a right to discharge these arms unless they have a valid ATT and pistol club membership.

Just clearing up some of the red tape.

IMHO After reading hundreds of armed self defense cases after 1996 I can say that in Canada Mr. Picket would have all his firearms seized and be charged with up to 14 firearms act violations, plus either attempted murder or aggravated assault...the crown would badger and terrorize the old man through several costly hearings and in the end drop most charges but the minors, keep his guns and issue a firearms prohibition order on him. Through all this Mr. Picket would probably have to sell his home to pay the legal costs and fines...the case would receive gratuitous media exposure all through it's course to "send the right message" to any Canadian hoping to successfully defend against armed criminals in their home with a firearm.

We further not that it is very rare for the crown to lay the applicable firearms act charges ( which would build up the sentencing) where armed criminals are prosecuted.

This is the soviet way of dissuading armed self defense by civilians.

I miss my guns. I've only had to point a gun at a human twic

I miss my guns. I've only had to point a gun at a human twic

Come on Kyla. Don't leave us hanging here. Give us some details, girl.

I miss my guns. I've only had to point a gun at a human twice. And each time, I was prepared to shoot for the liver.

I'm proud to say that by having a loaded handgun on me, neither I nor the threatening person got hurt.

That would not have been the case had I been defenseless.

I love Tennesse's Concealed Carry Permits. They make for very interesting government-issued, photo ID to be used at the bank in Canada.

Kingstonlad, you sound awesomely tough!

Reminds me of this one time, I was walking home through a nasty part of town, and this gang of ninjas jumped out and totally started getting in my face (did I mention my date, who was hot in an Angelina Jolie kind of way, was with me?). Anyway, one of them made a rather nasty remark to my really hot date, and, well...let's just say the sh*t hit the fan!! I totally did like drop kicks and these wild and awesome punches that broke their noses and cracked skulls and everything! Unlike you, though, I came out alright: one of the police officers on the scene was so impressed with my tough guy cred that he recommended me to a super secret Assault Force Squad, which cruises the streets, looking for terrorists and other malcontents upon which we can unleash some real justice and stuff.

The End.

break into my house you are dead. to hell with liberals and to hell with liberal law.

Hey Ringo that fantasy piece was as good as the one about the safe gunless society.

Ya Johnny Ringo - you're tough just like your tough sounding name. You probably got twin six guns on your hips and a black hat with a silver crown around the brim. You're my asshat hero!!!

Anyone who stabs a senior citizen in the face that savagely at the door is most likely going to kill them at some point in the ordeal. Good for you, Mr Picket. Count on attempted homicide in their charges. Scum.

The story has a satisfactory ending because Mr Picket had the right to have the means to defend his life, the local sheriff has moral authority as big as his hat and the Texas justice system is going to send those two punks to some real hard time in the Texas prison system.

The stupidity of the sniveling spineless left is their collective fantasy that if all guns in the US could only be collected and banned they would be safer. Most of them fail to grasp the sheer predatory nature of sociopaths like those two creeps or that they will stab you to death in lieu of a gun.

Awesome job by Mr. Picket. Man has stones like Gibraltar, that's what I wanna be when I grow up.

Now to the retard faction. Do you boys notice something interesting about this? NOBODY DIED. Zero fatalities.

If you bother your sorry, intellectually challenged asses to look into it even a tiny bit, you will discover an amazing thing. This outcome is the rule of armed citizen encounters with criminals, not the exception.

I can say that with some considerable confidence because I have looked into it, and that's what you are going to find. Something else you will find, L.Beria take particular note, is that gun "accidents" are highly correlated with drug and alcohol abuse.

In light of that reality, take a hard look at your championing of the gun-removal theory of crime prevention. 80+ year old war vet vs. two punks with knives, how's that going to work out? How about 25 year old female vs. pretty much any male armed with nothing? Non-zero fatalities, d'ya think?

My suggestion is that you break out of your tiny smelly universe where everyone in the country is a potential serial killer, and take a look to see what reality is. God forbid you should learn something. Retards.

Hey doucehbag. I would like to say that my ability to defend myself came from my eight years in the army, but, alas, I would be mistaken.

It actually started when I was 9 yrs old, living at Spadina and Dundas, and I was jumped by a gang of black kids. They beat the living crap out of me, and from that day forward, no arsehole has ever hurt me again.

Don't like the fact that I will lay a beating on thugs, punks, leftards and idiots? Too bad for you!

Typical idiots who bring knives to a gun fight. Typical result.

Hey, kingstonlad, I totally hear you! I think you'll find we're on the same page on this one.

Like you, I was physically assaulted at an impressionable age, except I was 7 years old. Me and my girlfriend were walking out of a bar, near the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, when we were both jumped by a drunken gang of gangsta ninjas. Holy crap! Talk about tough! I think there were even some neo-Nazis in the mix, as well as a couple of Islamofascists. But what's even more amazing is that their leader was a younger Asian fellow known only as "Dr. Suzuki" - talk about amazing coincidences. And Jack Layton was there, and Olivia Chow was there, and Mo Strong was there, and Lizzie May was there...oh Auntie Em, there's no place like home!

Anyway, I kicked all their asses. And it was the most fun I ever had that day!

The End.

I measure Johnnyringo against Mr. Picket and find I need a magnifying glass. Keep talking Johnny baby. Want a shovel to help deepen that hole you're in?

Hey, Johnny, to be an admired troll here you've got to be good, really good, the right balance of rapier wit and intellectual talent. That drivel you just posted where you thought you were really clever, boring. Not witty. A dud. C-.

We are a tough audience. Trolls come and go with regularity. Talented ones are hard to come by.

If the two suspects (PAUL WAYNE and HOLDEN PERRY) testicles are ever auctioned, I'm bidding...

Reminds me of a regular column in a firearms magazine I picked up once (in Texas, y'all). It highlighted several local news items from around the country that dealt with would be robbers/assailants and general bad asses that have had their evil intentions changed by every day John and Janes who were packing or had access. In every case the bad guys lost although one elderly gent complained that he had to go out and buy another gun as his was being held as evidence for a while.

That was Guns and Ammo, right Texas? I used to get that all the time in the states. Good fun!

I find it disappointing that some of you are still
feeding the idiot trolls. Ignore the widdle inbreds
and they'll have to go off and play with themselves.

Wow, the cons have a gun statistic! An old man shoots a couple of punks.

Here's another gun statistic for you -

State News Daily Comet
"DILLON, S.C. Authorities say a 10-year-old boy shot his younger sister in the face after she refused to give him a bag of potato chips."

Here's another one-
America and Gun Violence
American children are more at risk from firearms than the children of any other industrialized nation. In one year, firearms killed no children in Japan, 19 in Great Britain, 57 in Germany, 109 in France, 153 in Canada, and 5,285 in the United States. (Centers for Disease Control)

Want another one?
CHICAGO (AFP) - A gunman opened fire Thursday at suburban Chicago university, officials said, with media reporting 18 people shot in the most recent in a spate of US school shootings.

I'm sure you heard about that one.

5,285 American children died from gunshot wounds, but in a cons mind that's just fine because one gun totin old man shot a couple of punks.

BTW the story said that the old WW2 vet was a fan of John Wayne? Well what exactly does that have to do with it? John Wayne was a pussy and I wonder if the old man knows that?

"John Wayne, whatever his actual name, spent WW2 carefully avoiding military service during a conflict that found Jimmy Stewart piloting a B-24 and Clark Gable manning a freezing open waist gun on B-17's. John Wayne never wore a uniform that didn't come from the prop department."
http://www.bushwatch.com/kent1003.htm

"5,285 American children died from gunshot wounds.."

Uh huh. You do realize that to get that number the word "child" was defined as anyone under the age of about 25, right? And included gang bangers shot by the cops, bank robbers, drug dealer punks shooting each other... Oh, the Phantom's lyin? Look it up.

This kind of thing is what makes you guys such hopeless retards. That CDC crap was debunked 10 years ago or more, and it earned them a budget cut from the US Congress too. But here you are, still spewing out the same warmed over leftover propaganda.

Try to keep up, eh?

What a courageous man! I HATE seeing his face all cut up and bruised, it made me feel like ripping off the knife arms of those two pieces of garbage that assaulted him and beating them over the head with the bloody ends. He did not need help from the likes of me, he carries his own ammo - but some people don't ...in Canada it is illegal to defend yourself.

This is an American story with a happy ending..in Canada it would have been 'another story'.

For your info- that tiny little handgun that Mr. Picket used, is manufactured by North American Arms, (google them), and fires a .22 magnum round. It retails for just over two hundred bucks.

And for close range protection that tiny little popper is all a person needs.To bad the kids and teachers at v tech and other schools didnt have the same opportunity this old guy was able give himself.This gun is so tiny no one should ever know you have one unless you really need it.Strange isnt it those states with concealed carry laws have the lowest crime rates in America.Of course people like libforlife dont seem to get it.

And for close range protection that tiny little popper is all a person needs.To bad the kids and teachers at v tech and other schools didnt have the same opportunity this old guy was able give himself.This gun is so tiny no one should ever know you have one unless you really need it.Strange isnt it those states with concealed carry laws have the lowest crime rates in America.Of course people like libforlife dont seem to get it.

Libforlife, those 5285 'children' are not the 7-year old cherubs you're thinking of. Those tragic deaths are extremely rare. What that stat really represents is a lot of 17-year old drug dealers, thieves, gangsters, etc. on the wrong end of their own criminal activity. The media will ALWAYS report the rare, tragic death of a truly innocent child, but ALMOST NEVER reports on the very common self-defense story.