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McLaughlin picked up a knife sharpening tool inside the woman’s kitchen and walked to the woman’s bedroom, Clark said. She fired one shot, striking McLaughlin in the head. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
“This was a big guy. If she hadn’t had a weapon there’s no telling what would have happened,” (Sheriff Rick) Clark said. “I gave her a big hug. I told her how proud I was of her.”
There's the difference between the US and the rest of the world writ large.
In the US she gets a hug from the sheriff for properly defending herself. In the UK she'd be immediately arrested and prosecuted for violating the criminal's right to rape and murder her.
Good on her and God Bless America and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms!
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