A woman is saying that the Second Amendment saved her life.
The Springfield News-Leader reports that Katie Claxton, a Springfield, MO. resident, was at a gas station Sunday evening when she saw a man headed toward her car and acting in a weird manner. With her four children inside and husband outside getting gas, Claxton tried to lock the car doors but accidentally rolled down the windows instead.
The man, identified as David Middleton, then opened the door and took out a knife. Glaxton shouted for her husband, Matt, to get their gun. He then pointed a Beretta handgun at Middleton.
“He [Middleton] said ‘You’re lucky he has a gun,'” Claxton said. “And then he shut the door and started to back away.”
Middleton slowly walked away and was eventually arrested.
Claxton told the News-Leader she “cringes to think what might have happened if her husband hadn’t pointed a gun at the man and scared him off.”
“Our Second Amendment right to carry is what saved our lives,” Claxton said. “If we didn’t have our right to carry, I feel like we wouldn’t be here today.”