Under the gun, she was in control

Under the gun, she was in control
Date: Nov 11, 2005 5:14 PM

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Jacquielynn Floyd:
Under the gun, she was in control

08:07 PM CST on Thursday, November 10, 2005







A lot of armed people are running around who are too stupid, too dangerous or too hotheaded to own a firearm.

If you favor more stringent gun laws, they're the people who come to mind: drug-addled stickup artists, dimwits who keep loaded weapons with kids in the house, bad-tempered drunks and psycho stalkers and cop-killers with nothing to lose.

But there are less-celebrated people who could make a pretty good case in favor of responsible gun ownership. Susan Gaylord Buxton, the Arlington woman who shot and wounded a housebreaker early Wednesday, might give even the most ardent gun-control activist a moment's pause.

Talk-show hosts and radio jocks have had a lot of fun with the story of the 66-year-old grandma who was packin' a .38 pistol when she found a bald-headed, muscle-bound burglar crouching in her front-hall coat closet.

She warned him to get down and lie still – you can hear it on the 911 tape – but when he ignored her and tried to grab the gun, she shot him in the thigh.

Ms. Buxton, in her ladylike and good-natured way, has played along, dutifully recounting the scary moments when she confronted the intruder, a car theft suspect who was trying to run from the cops.