Hurrah for Miss America

Venus Ramey, Miss America in 1944, is now 82 and needs a walker to get around her Kentucky farm where she sells trees.

When she caught Curtis Parish stealing scrap metal from her yard, she took out her gun and shot out his tires as he was leaving.

"The first time I was robbed on the other side road about 6 or 7 years ago, I caught one man," Ramey said.

But now both police and Ramey say they don't think this man will try to steal from her again.

Police say Ramey had every right to fire the gun since they say she witnessed the men committing a crime on her property.

I wonder how many older people feel safe only because they have a gun to defend themselves and to keep people from preying on them.