it has been reported....

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....that a Detroit woman fought off five home invaders, with her legal handgun

.... that a new jersey woman was killed by her ex, while waiting for her overdue gun permit. if she had gotten it approved in the required thirty day decision period she may have been able to save herself

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Quick LJ - now's your chance!

[Lord Jim]

DETROIT -

A Detroit woman defended herself with gunfire early Tuesday morning when a group of men broke into her home.



The woman, who goes by the nickname Ms. Dee, said she was jolted awake around 2 a.m. when one of the men broke through her bedroom window of her home on Whitehill and pointed a gun in her face. Three or four more men followed behind.

“I was able to get to my gun. They didn’t know I had it. By that time, it was just gunfire,” Ms. Dee said.

he was hit in the foot and is expected to be OK. She said she believes at least one of the men was also shot.

Ms. Dee said she got a gun license after her home was broken into three years ago.

“We are regular people. We work every day. Me and my fiancé, we work every day. We don’t do drugs. We don’t do none of that,” Ms. Dee said.

A cancer survivor, she said she’s glad to keep taking whatever life throws at her.

“I told the nurse at the doctor that I think I’m a cat, because I keep just going through stuff and God keeps pulling me through it,” Ms. Dee said.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/home ... n/33477032

When Carol Bowne felt the threat of domestic violence, the petite hairdresser took steps to protect herself.

The Berlin Township woman got a restraining order against a former boyfriend, installed security cameras and an alarm system to her home and began the months-long process of obtaining a handgun, friends said.

But it wasn't enough.

Bowne, 39, was stabbed to death in the driveway of her Patton Avenue home on Wednesday night.

Her former boyfriend, 45-year-old Michael Eitel, was charged with her murder. Eitel, a convicted felon, was a fugitive Thursday, being sought by a U.S. Marshals Service task force.

Bowne's death shocked her friends and neighbors, who described her as a bubbly, well-liked person. But her slaying also embittered some, who felt the system had failed to protect a woman in danger.

"She did absolutely everything she was supposed to," said Denise Lovallo, a fellow hairdresser at O'Hara and Co. in Somerdale.

"Do they have enough now to get him?" she asked of Bowne's attacker.

Berlin Township Police Chief Leonard Check said Bowne applied for a gun license on April 21, and that she had inquired Monday about her request.

The application process typically takes two months or more as police collect information on the applicant, including fingerprints and reference checks. "We did not get the fingerprint information yet," said Check.

http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/ ... /28461361/

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By golly, you're good!

[Lord Jim]