The Second Amendment: Thanks, Founding Fathers!

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six...

A Hollywood teenager shot and wounded a violent intruder trying to break into his home yesterday.

At 03:30 Javaris Granger awoke to his mother's frantic screams and the sound of something slamming into the house.

Granger's father was not at home; he had left to visit a friend in the hospital and had not yet returned. His mother heard a knock at the door and, thinking it was her husband, opened it. A stranger grabbed at her; she pulled free and closed the door. The stranger started shouting and throwing his bicycle at the front door.

Granger yelled to the man to leave; meanwhile, his mother called Granger's father and handed her son the phone, who told his son to go and get the gun they used for shooting practice and, "Do what you have to do."

Granger ran upstairs to his parent's bedroom, found and unlocked the gun box, loaded two weapons; one for himself and one for his mother, and went back downstairs. His mother was too upset to take a gun, so she ran upstairs where her daughters were hiding.

"I was real scared and nervous, but I knew I had to stay focused on what I had to do because my mom and the kids were there," Granger said.

"I didn't want to hurt anybody, so I fired off a warning shot," the ninth-grader said.

The man broke down the door. It took a total of four shots, two hitting the attacker before he would leave. Granger calmly went back upstairs and, once the intruder was no longer a threat, secured the weapons and checked on his family.

Granger's family is proud of their "man of the house," and charges will not be pressed against the teen. (Thank goodness! Getting in trouble for defending your own property...That's another post!)

The assailant, Keil Jumper, is in Memorial Regional Medical Center under treatment for his wounds, at the taxpayer's dollar, no doubt. Police say that he has a string of arrests dating back five years, including one for attacking a Seminole Reservation Police Officer the day before breaking into the Granger's house. One can only imagine what would've happened had the level-headed teen not exercised his second amendment rights and defended his mother and sisters!

Said his mother:"My husband tried to get everyone to learn the safety of a gun. It paid off."