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MASS-MURDER PREVENTED: College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader: A group of college students s?

By Glenn Reynolds

MASS-MURDER PREVENTED: College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader:

A group of college students said they are lucky to be alive and they?re thanking the quick-thinking of one of their own. Police said a fellow student shot and killed one of two masked me who burst into an apartment. . . . Bailey said he thought it was the end of his life and the lives of the 10 people inside his apartment for a birthday party after two masked men with guns burst in through a patio door.

?They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ?Give me your wallets and cell phones,?? said George Williams of the College Park Police Department.

Bailey said the gunmen started counting bullets. ?The other guy asked how many (bullets) he had. He said he had enough,? said Bailey.

That?s when one student grabbed a gun out of a backpack and shot at the invader who was watching the men. The gunman ran out of the apartment.

The student then ran to the room where the second gunman, identified by police as 23-year-old Calvin Lavant, was holding the women.

?Apparently the guy was getting ready to rape his girlfriend. So he told the girls to get down and he started shooting. The guy jumped out of the window,? said Bailey.

If more home invaders had this experience, there would be fewer home invasions. Clayton Cramer comments: “If you have any doubt as to whether keeping colleges gun-free zones makes sense, I think this answers the question. This student didn’t draw a gun and start shooting when it looked like a robbery. When the bad guys made it clear that they were going to kill them all, he drew and fired–and probably saved ten lives.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 06, 2009 (boomark / email).