bearingarms.com Chicago’s senior citizens appear to be embracing their right to self-defense. Just a few weeks after an 80-year-old man defended himself from a pair of home invaders, a 73-year-old resident of the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood was able to protect himself from armed thieves when one of them pulled a gun and pointed it at him early Tuesday morning.
The 73-year-old man saw two thieves trying to steal his catalytic converter in the 2000 block of North Larrabee around 3:40 a.m. He confronted the thieves, and one of them brandished a firearm, prompting the victim to open fire, a police spokesperson said.
Both thieves escaped in a dark SUV, which struck a parked car as they fled the scene, according to police.
Neighbors who called 911 said they heard yelling, followed by two or three gunshots. Police said the victim is licensed to own firearms.
Kudos to the website CWB Chicago for covering the story, which as of the time of this writing has not managed to capture the attention of the city’s two largest newspapers. Then again, catalytic converter thefts have become so common in Chicago that maybe most media outlets simply don’t report on individual instances anymore, even when they involve a gun owner defending himself against armed thieves. As the Chicago Tribune did report last September:
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