“Our Second Amendment Right To Carry Is What Saved Our Lives”

By Bob Owens

A family of six sitting at a gas pump in Springfield, Missouri was randomly targeted by a man with a large knife Sunday night.

Luckily for them, they are citizens who wisely exercise the right to bear arms, and credit having a gun with saving their lives.

On Sunday evening, Katie Claxton was sitting in a car with her four young children while her husband was pumping gas, when a man wielding a large knife approached her vehicle. Claxton said she cringes to think what might have happened if her husband hadn’t pointed a gun at the man and scared him off.

“Our Second Amendment right to carry is what saved our lives,” Claxton said. “If we didn’t have our right to carry, I feel like we wouldn’t be here today.”

Claxton said she reached over to try to lock the doors as the man approached, but she accidentally rolled down the window. Claxton said the man opened the door, leaned into the car and brandished a long knife.

Claxton said she yelled for her husband Matt to get his gun, and the man then began to leave.

“He said ‘You’re lucky he has a gun,’” Claxton …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms