Damn right they should decline to prosecute her.

Can you imagine how terrified she must have been

when the animal shut off her power? Yet, she defended herself.

FYI (copy below):

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/laworder/story/9C58494B45470714862574F3006D0CA6?OpenDocument

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A government big enough to give you everything you want,

is strong enough to take everything you have.

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Cops: Cape Girardeau woman kills man who returned to rape

her second time

By Heather Ratcliffe

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

10/31/2008

An intended rape victim shot and killed her attacker this

morning in Cape Girardeau when he broke into her home to

rape her a second time, police said.

The 57-year-old woman shot Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a

registered sex offender, in the chest with a shotgun when he

broke through her locked basement door.

The woman told police he was the same man who raped her

several days earlier. Officials do not intend to seek

charges against her.

In the first incident, the woman heard glass breaking in her

basement about midnight on Saturday. She went to leave the

house, and the man attacked when she opened the front door.

He punched her in the face and then forced her into a

bedroom, where he raped her, said H. Morley Swingle,

prosecuting attorney in Cape Girardeau County.

The victim reported the crime to police, and her landlord

repaired the broken window.

She was home alone again Friday about 2:15 a.m. when Preyer

broke the same basement window. The victim was awake

watching television, when Preyer switched off the

electricity to her house.

She tried to call 911, but couldn’t because the power was

off. She got a shotgun and waited as the man began banging

on the basement door. She fired when Preyer came crashing

through the door. When Preyer collapsed, the woman escaped

and went to a neighbor’s home, where she called police.

Officers, who arrived within a minute, found a bleeding

Preyer stumbling away from the house. He was taken to St.

Francis Medical Center, where he died several hours later.

Swingle said the victim identified Preyer as the attacker in

both incidents. Preyer, of Jackson, Mo., had wet caulking

from the recently repaired basement window on his clothing

when he was shot.

“I will not be filing any sort of charge against this

57-year-old woman, who was clearly justified under the law

in shooting this intruder in her home,” Swingle said.

The Second Amendment IS Homeland Security !