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You may also remember Sarah McKinley’s’s story. On New Year’s Eve night, the recently widowed mother of a three-month-old baby shot and killed one of two armed men who had broken into her Oklahoma home. The men were addicts intent on stealing drugs they thought her husband, a lung cancer victim who had died just six days before, stored in the house. The second man who had fled the scene eventually turned himself in to the police.

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