Except it was a drunk/high fellow student that he managed to shoot. The idiot is lucky he isn't dead but it's not like the resident cleared the streets of one of the muggers that have been hitting the area.

Not too sure guns in the hands of students will have a positive effect given the 1st intruder an armed student manages to take out is another student. For all we know it could have been another face eating incident waiting to happen but it's not exactly giving me a warm/fuzzy feeling inside when you hear a student got shot no matter how high/out of his mind he was.

Watch over your Children, Jesus.
Amen

He broke into the kids house, thought it was his high out of his mind, and attempted to confront the kid with the gun thinking he was the intruder. You tell me what you'd do if you heard a crazed 20+ year old break in to your house and be hostile against you.

Know your facts before you open your fat mouth

Dear President Taft,

When will people ever start taking responsibility for themselves. That neighborhood is a crime-fest and if nobody has the right to bear arms then the only people with them will be criminals and it will be even worse due to easy picking. Which is pretty much how it is now. You can call the cops after an incident has already occurred or after you've been shot by someone trying to rob you. This kid is responsible for his stupidity. I'm not saying its not a tragedy but you can't demonize guns or someone with a gun trying to protect himself in a bad neighborhood. Its lack of discipline that gets people into trouble and caused this situation. If the Tech student was so smart (as most of us "claim" to be) then he would not have put himself in the situation in the first place. Common sense = something most Tech students lack.

From the AJC:

"After being awakened by the breaking glass, one of the residents, a first-year graduate student at Tech, grabbed a handgun and went to investigate, Lee said.
Lee said that at some point, the intruder caused the student "to believe that they were in danger, and he shot the person one time in the chest."
The intruder, identified as Adam Keller, 23, was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital in stable condition, APD spokeswoman Kim Jones said. She said Keller was "combative and had to be subdued for medical attention."
Keller, who is listed in Tech's online directory as a student in the school of Materials Science and Engineering, was charged with criminal trespass and criminal damage to property.
"It looks like last night, maybe our suspect was probably high on something other than alcohol," Atlanta police Detective P.J. Roberson said.
Roberson said Keller, who lives in the area, "actually entered two houses in the neighborhood, thinking it was his."
When he entered the second house, "he woke up the residents and charged at one of them, at which time the resident shot him.""

The extremely high and extremly stupid Mr. Keller is lucky to be alive. Stop trying to make the idiot into a victim Mr Taft. Unless, you have some evidence that he was forced to disable his brain.