Another man with a gun ...

...helps bring a murderer to justice...

A family dispute pushed Maron Thomas to go on a rampage marked by a fury so intense that he decapitated his 2-year-old niece with a machete after killing her and four other family members, Austin County investigators said Wednesday.
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Thomas then allegedly burglarized a car and was arrested around 3 a.m. after being caught trying to break into a house a mile and a half away while he was naked, investigators said. A neighbor held him at gunpoint until deputies arrived and arrested him on burglary charges. When deputies arrived, he had put on a pair of exercise shorts.

To spin this another way, there's a guy over at Bob's place basically trying to argue that folks breaking into houses and such doesn't necessarily warrant loosening of gun laws. As you longtime readers know, I try not to use any kind of argument grounded in social utility when advocating the RKBA, as I don't believe that right is subject to said arguments. But this is one of many cases in which one definitely argue the positive social utility of said right. One could even go further and point out that this is a demonstration of one of Sir Robert Peel's Nine Principles:

Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

Said principle leads to the question of how the public are going to give the deserved attention to said duties if they don't have sufficient force at their disposal. Peel's principles aren't going to work as well as they should if the public is hampered in its duty in ways the police aren't.