Something is indeed “broken” in this country when we constantly hear stories about violent offenders who commit the most heinous of crimes while out on parole, when our streets are filled with open drug use and when the leaders of proscribed terrorist organizations are allowed to continue to incite violence , yet a man who defended himself during a home invasion is charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.

It’s a scenario we’ve all surely seen in the movies and wondered how we’d handle ourselves. You wake up in the middle of the night after hearing a noise from inside your home. You get out of bed to investigate and grab a knife on your way through the kitchen. Suddenly, you see a figure lurking in the shadows. It looks like the intruder is armed so you lurch into actio

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