Facing down two armed robbers Friday night, a Memphis homeowner grabbed his "own, personal AK-47." The intruders didn't last long. (Image source: WMC-TV video screenshot)
A Memphis homeowner said when he arrived at his residence Friday evening he saw his “house being ransacked” and his dog “going hysterical in the cage,” he told WMC-TV.
Asking the station to not identify him for fear of his safety, the homeowner added to WMC he came face to face with pair of intruders.
“When he saw me, he notified the other individual that was with him, ‘Hey, they are here,'” the homeowner told the station.
Then the intruders pulled out guns, he told WMC. One of them, he told WATN-TV, “turned around and pointed it at me.”
But he added to WATN that intruder’s gun jammed, and then both suspects ran to the kitchen.
The homeowner noted to WMC that he was able to grab his “own, personal AK-47” from a hall closet.
He found both suspects on the patio where he saw one “shooting, aiming at my play cousin, so I just let loose,” he told WATN, and opened fire upon the intruders.
What happened to the intruders?
Both intruders were pronounced dead at the scene, WMC reported. They were identified by police as 28-year-old Azell Witherspoon and 17-year-old Demond Robinson.
Why were the intruders inside the home?
The homeowner told WATN he believes the break-in started as retaliation toward his friend who one of the suspects claimed owed him money during a visit to the house weeks prior to the shooting.
“You know you see your stuff ransacked, you puzzled and you trying to figure out what’s going on,” the homeowner added to WATN.
Not the first shooting at the home
Police markings indicate spots on the home where it was shot up less than a year ago, WMC reported.
“I don’t know what’s going on, but I know I’m going to defend my life to the best of my ability,” the homeowner added to WMC.
What happened to the homeowner?
Police said the homeowner was detained but later released, WMC reported, adding that the District Attorney General’s office determined that no charges will be filed at this time.
The homeowner gave police his home surveillance system to bolster his case that the shooting was in self-defense, WMC said.
What else did the homeowner say?
“These boys need their father and need some type of discipline,” he added to WMC. “They’re out here without any fear.”
While the homeowner isn’t happy about the loss of life, he told WMC “it was either me or them” and added to WATN that his action was “just fast, rational thinking.”
He told WMC he’s concerned about the “possibility” of retaliation and added to WATN he plans to move because of the incident.
“You never know how someone else’s family may perceive the situation,” the homeowner told WMC, “but I mean, I just have to take it one day at a time.”
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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