This gun lay there peacefully, night after night, doing its job, never causing any harm to anyone, like millions of guns in the country, until the night two scumbags disrupted this man’s tranquility. Thank God for the gun.
“I was in bed sleeping, they woke me up,” Lutz later told KDKA TV, a CBS-affiliate. “Woken up to them busting in on my front door, and I went out in the hallway in the dark, and I met this one guy, and he went to grab me and that’s when I shot him.”
The Korean War veteran apparently has a long habit of sleeping with a loaded gun under his pillow. “What’s the point of having a gun if it’s not loaded?” he told Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Lutz said he fired only one bullet, which proved fatal for the attacker who later died on the kitchen floor. The elderly man, who happened to be former champion weight-lifter, then engaged in a fight with the second intruder, who managed to escape. Both attackers were half his age, the man said.
Lutz only regrets that he didn’t kill the second burglar. “Oh yeah, I would have shot him. They dropped the gun out of my hands; it was lying on the floor. I would have shot him, too,” he said. Luiz added that he is just “a little sore from scuffling” with the intruders but he wasn’t scared at all. “I had my gun. I’m an expert with guns. You do what you have to do.”
Police are still investigating the incident but so far they believe Lutz’s actions were “justified,” Lt. David Kingston from local police said.
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We can use him once again to fight the North Koreans.
I don’t think the intruder will be back for round 2.
There were two of them. The cops can’t find the slug and it was a through and through. They think it’s buried in bad guy number two. LOL.
Let’s hope it was a two-fer and that lots of wanna-be tough guys hear this story and are dissuaded from attempting the same behavior in fear of the same outcome.
Sure hope Pennsylvania has a law on the books to charge perp (Obama son) number two with First Degree murder.
If this took place in CA, NY, or MA the shooter would be in jail.
“If this took place in CA”
NO.
Lutz needs to add “Never talk to reporters” to the standard “Never talk to cops” advice.
This story is right up there with the malachite kingfisher photo
to help make today a good day.
PA has the Castle Doctrine. I have a note on my front door that says “Castle Doctrine Home – You will be shot if you threaten a life in this house!”
And I too sleep with a loaded gun near my right hand at night.
The weapon does not have a safety and it is loaded with hollow point rounds.
I have always been a light sleeper since my Navy days and sharing berthing compartments with 50 some guys at a time.
Good night.
Gran Torinos don’t f–k around, punks.
The other good news in this story is that thankfully the intruders were not a SWAT Team storming the wrong house as has happened several times before, killing an innocent man.
You’d think they’d know the difference between 385 East Smith St. & 385 West Smith St., but too frequently they don’t .
What is a 1911 Alex?
Like Mr Lutz…..
I sleep with a loaded gun……
Guess which house I live in.
The Mossberg is on DH’s side of the bed. We not only have door alarms, we have motion detectors also.
I sleep with a loaded gun too. I also sleep with a loaded fire arm. Have Gun, Will Travel. LOL
I sleep having weapons in almost every room in d house. Mr. 1911 and a wakizashi being the closest to the bed.
There are just some folks you don’t mess with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzHG-ibZaKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZD-A3utGlI
I have a huge speaker magnet on the bed frame, a .38 resides there, a Mossberg, with led, hangs over the door.
If I have my pants on, the .38 lives there.
What am I afraid of?
Not a damn thing.
In the town where Mrs Crowley and I live, probably everybody with few exceptions keeps loaded guns close at hand at all times of the day (and night). We have zero burglaries and home invasions. My hat is off to anyone that is not afraid to protect their loved ones and property from the morons of the world.