Residents of a Chicago neighborhood where an 80-year-old man shot and killed a burglar who’d broken into his home are pleased the U.S. Supreme Court supports their right to own guns for self-defense.
Residents of a Chicago neighborhood where an 80-year-old man shot and killed a burglar who’d broken into his home are pleased the U.S. Supreme Court supports their right to own guns for self-defense. Seventy-eight-year-old Herman Wilder of the West Side neighborhood says he keeps a handgun under his pillow for protection. He says he thanks God for the Supreme Court’s decision Monday, which eventually may make that gun legal. Another neighbor, 50-year-old Charlene Figgins, thinks Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is living in a different Chicago than she is and that he doesn’t understand the citizens’ need for protection. She says it can take 30 minutes for police to respond to calls for help in her neighborhood. She says the mayor doesn’t have that problem. AP Photo Caption: Charlene Figgens, 50, right, and her mother Audrey Williams, 75, sit on their porch Monday. Figgens lives in the West Side neighborhood where an 80-year-old man used an illegal handgun to fatally shoot an intruder who had fired a shot at him last month. She said Monday that she has mixed feelings about the Supreme Court’s decision. She wondered if putting more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens would put more people, particularly children, in danger. But Figgens said she knew another man who did not have a gun and was shot and killed by an intruder. "If he would have had a gun to protect himself, he’d be alive today," she said. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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