You’ve likely heard the term “mamma bear.” It is often used to refer to how a sweet, gentle mother suddenly turns into a terror when her children are threatened.
It’s usually a good thing. After all, it’s absolutely right and healthy for parents to want to protect their children from harm.
Fortunately, that kind of situation doesn’t show up often, and even less often turns into a life-threatening situation.
Unfortunately for an Illinois mother with her baby, her mamma bear incident came up when her life and her baby’s life were on the line. Dave Urbanski writes,
A man with a long criminal record faced the ultimate penalty for breaking into the wrong home after discovering an armed mother, according to Illinois police.
The Joliet Police Department said they responded to a residence on Hadrian Drive on the far west side of Joliet around 10:30 p.m. Aug. 15.
Police said they saw signs of forced entry at the home and found an unresponsive man on the second floor with gunshot wounds. Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene.
They also found a woman at the home with her baby. She told them she hid in a closet in her bedroom with her child after she heard the break in. She also had a handgun with her, and when the man entered the bedroom, she shot him in the head.
What an awful situation to be in. Imagine being a mother home alone with your baby (so, likely a fairly young woman) when the guy breaks into your house.
What would you do?
This lady probably made the best choice that she could have made in an awful situation. She hid herself and her baby in an effort to avoid confrontation altogether, and when that was no longer an option, she made sure that she and her baby were safe by stopping the intruder.
Good for her, and I’m glad that she had a firearm in her possession even though she is in Illinois. I hope that more and more women make sure that they can handle themselves like this, too, if they need to.
