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Civil Liberties

Heat-Packing Detroit Mom Shoots At, Scatters Home Invaders: Video

Nick Gillespie | 2.20.2014 2:12 PM

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Via the Twitter feed of Reason Foundation's Adrian Moore comes this news story from Detroit's WXYZ. After three people try to break into her house, a mother of two breaks out a gun, starts shooting, and scatters the home invaders. Well worth watchng (hat tip: Independent Review Journal).

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