[Originally sent via 2A News email on February 20, 2015]

Last week, a Columbus, OH woman’s son bought her a gun due to safety concerns in her bad neighborhood.

This week, the woman, a widow who lives alone in the crime-plagued neighborhood, shot an intruder multiple times with that gun.

The man broke through her front window at around 5 a.m. after attempting to rob a house across the street. After residents there forced him out of the upstairs window, he broke into the widow’s home through her window.

The perp was pronounced dead at around 7 a.m. The widow is apparently fine.

Does your mother have a gun? Mother’s Day is in May, if you really want to wait that long.

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