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Crepuscular

(1,057 posts)
Fri May 9, 2014, 09:45 AM May 2014

Detroit Grandmother survives mugging, despite being shot four times

Paris Ainsworth, a Detroit woman with four grandchildren, was shot four times during an attempted mugging but was successfully able to fight off her assailants by employing her own concealed weapon. Ainsworth returned fire, wounding at least one of the muggers, both of whom were taken into custody at a local hospital, when seeking treatment for gunshot wounds.

Pistol-packin Grandma from the D!

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/detroit-woman-wounded-in-shootout-with-wouldbe-robbers/25840016

Probably not an NRA member and very likely votes Democratic, one wonders whether some of the more virulent anti-gun DU members would describe her as a "delicate flower"?

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