Here in Decatur, a 69 year-old grandmother yesterday shot an intruder. That's the good news, but to me the story is really a couple of things.
First is that she obviously hasn't shot her self defense gun in years, yet, out of three shots fired, at least one hit home.
The second thing that struck me is the article itself. There's no quote from a police talking head about how "things could have gone badly" or "she's lucky he didn't take the gun from her". After reading that sort of pablum in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for so many years, the lack of it really stuck out.
The story is
here.