Child Gives Mom Gun During Violent Confrontation With Father

By Tom Knighton

When I was a kid, nothing riled me up than the idea of someone messing with my mother. While my father got “messed with” plenty, he was a police officer and that went with the job. Besides, those people ended up in jail for their efforts. In other words, Dad could take care of himself. Mom, on the other hand, was tough enough, but she wasn’t someone who could hold her own in a confrontation. That made it so I felt I had an obligation to protect her.

A couple of Texas kids apparently feel the same way about their mom.

A woman shot her husband Thursday after he broke into her northwest Houston apartment and choked her, police said.

According to investigators, just after 5 p.m. the man, identified as Derek Martin, broke into his wife’s apartment in the 12000 block of North Gessner and began choking her in front of their four children. Their 8-year-old daughter hit her father while their 5-year-old child got a gun, police said.

Martin’s wife took the gun from the child and shot Martin in the arm, police said.

A couple of points here.

First, we see what good the restraining order the mother had …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms