Parents Switch to Pro-Gun the Hard Way

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[...]Dispatch cracked out a call of a possible home invasion right around the corner. Patrolman Thomas Rakoczy was only seconds away. [...]

He entered the house and soon found two adults and two teenage girls tied up. [...]

Rakoczy began untying the family, starting with the man first. As he was untying him the disheveled middle-aged man hurriedly spouted out what had happened. Four men had broken down the front door (in broad daylight) and started up the long staircase leading to him and his family.

He said he saw the men coming up the stairs with guns in hand but he couldn't do anything to stop them. So he quickly gathered his family and locked them in the master bedroom. He said they found them hiding there in less than a minute.

As he continued, he started to cry and told how they all were immediately tied up. Then they started leisurely burglarizing the home, seemingly in no hurry whatsoever. After they bagged-up everything they deemed worthwhile, things really got bad.

They took turns raping both daughters in front of him and his wife. The man was beside himself as he told what had happened. The Rock told me the mother was so bad off she was almost totally incoherent. [...]

Thankfully, the four criminals were caught a few weeks later and sentenced to around 15 years in prison. Later, the father told Rakoczy that all through his life he was against guns and thought they were a terrible problem in our society. However, after what he and his family went through and after a lot of soul searching and thought, he had changed his mind. He said he now understood the need and availability for the best protection available for people, which are firearms. He eventually bought a gun, received training and said he was ready to protect himself and others if need be, for the rest of his life. [...]