http://www.kxmb.com/News/196003.asp
This one's a few weeks old. A man, who apparently is a convicted felon, claims to have shot an intruder.
Prosecutors in northwestern Minnesota have filed weapons charges against a convicted felon who told police he shot and killed an intruder.
Prosecutors say 32-year-old Curtis James Thompson was charged during the investigation into the death of 27-year-old Dominic Needham of Red Lake at a home outside Bemidji.
Interestingly, felons are not allowed to own firearms.* Hence, the weapons charge. But, if you can suspend the notion that gun = bad and also realize that a convicted felon isn't necessarily a violent criminal, then you can wonder, what if Curtis Thompson was legitimately protecting himself against a violent attack from Dominic Needham? I don't know what Thompson's past offenses are and whether or not he's on probation, but if he's served his time, "payed his debt to society," mightn't he be entitled to defend himself and his home with a gun? Just wondering.
* Supposedly, a felon can petition the state and or ATF to restore their rights to own firearms but, apparently, in practice it never happens.
