A 65-year-old New Hampshire grandmother shot a man who allegedly tried to rob her, and she told reporters that if she had to, she’d do it all over again.
“I’m not happy about it,” the grandmother, who wished to remain anonymous, told WBZ. “Hope I never have to do it again, you know. But if I was in a situation like that I would imagine I would do it again.”
Michael Bontaites, 23, has been charged with attempted robbery and was arraigned while still in the hospital Tuesday. Police said the woman had just left her job as a poker dealer and was outside her apartment Monday night when Bontaites tried to mug her. But the grandmother, who is 4 foot, 11 inches and 105 pounds, whipped out her .32-caliber handgun and shot him in the chest. The alleged mugger is nearly 6 foot and 200 pounds.
“I mean, he went, ‘Ow!’ and he fell right to the ground immediately,” the grandmother said.
Bontaites has a Jan. 14 court date. Police also charged the man who drove Bontaites to the hospital for being a felon in possession of a knife.
“I shot to protect myself,” the woman told The Union Leader. “If I wanted to kill him, I would have aimed for the head.”
This is just one of many cases of private citizens using guns to defend themselves. A Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of similar incidents found elderly people often defend themselves from attackers, such as Phyllis Law, a 63-year-old Alabama grandmother. Phyllis was a victim of multiple robberies and had even boarded up her windows to keep thieves out. But in July of 2014, a male robber broke into her house, but Law hid with her 9mm pistol while her granddaughter hid in the closet.
Law told Fox 10 News that when the man came into her home, “I jumped up and just started shooting and he hollered and turned around and ran A lot of them come in people’s house, kill them, take what they want and leave. Like I said, not here.”
More examples like this, plus an interactive graphic of gun data, are available here.
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