Just south of Chicago in Joliet, some choirboy armed himself with a screwdriver and some evil intent, and broke into a house occupied by a young woman and her little daughter. Not knowing his intentions but making a good guess about them, the young mother shot the asshole in the head, sending his already-low IQ to zero and his body temperature to room-level.

Because this was in Joliet and not in the City Of Chicago, the police apparently muttered a couple of complimentary words about her fine placement, then did their job and carted the corpus delicti off to the crematorium or wherever.
And if this story and its happy ending does not give you the Warm & Fuzzies, then we can’t be friends.
Many thanks to Reader Brad_In_IL for the link.
A few notes: in some jurisdictions, Our Heroine would have been in trouble for her actions, using “disproportionate force” (whatever that means) — like she should have rummaged around in a toolbox and found a screwdriver to protect herself instead of using an eeeevil gun. I know; that sounds so stupid, but that is nevertheless the attitude of law enforcement and/or government in those places.
In the United States of America, however, we do not share the sentiments of Massachusetts and New York, never mind Britishland and other gun-fearing shitholes of similar inclination.










