What bothers me about this incident is the way it is reported. Instead of  an unbiased news  headline like  " Mother defends herself and two children from intruder" MSN reports this as if the protective mother is unstable.

Hi Bob from NWI  You misread my statement but thank you for your concern.

Assault rifles are machine guns and have already been banned since 1934. Semi automatic firearms which use spent gases and recoil to load the next cartridge but can only fire one bullet at a time are now called assault weapons in order to make them sound scary. All guns should be banned from the mentally ill. It is up ...more