A MAJOR CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY in Ohio:

West Toledo resident Barb Korn grinned yesterday as she picked up a silver Smith & Wesson revolver – holding it with both hands and aiming it.
“I like this,” she said, staring down the gun’s sights.

Ms. Korn, 60, was among nearly 25 people taking a 12-hour class at Cleland’s Outdoor World on Airport Highway. The training is required in order to carry a firearm under Ohio’s new concealed weapons law.

“I was mugged previously and I want to be able to defend myself,” she said. “I will feel safer.”

The law, which goes into effect April 8, requires sheriffs to approve a concealed-handgun license if the applicant completes 10 hours of classroom training and two hours of live-fire training, pays a fee, and passes an exam.

Unfortunately, an essential human right — self-defense — is being denied elsewhere:

A man who stabbed to death an armed intruder at his home was jailed for eight years today.

Carl Lindsay, 25, answered a knock at his door in Salford, Greater Manchester, to find four men armed with a gun.

When the gang tried to rob him he grabbed a samurai sword and stabbed one of them, 37-year-old Stephen Swindells, four times.

I’m deeply disappointed at this barbaric infringement of human rights.

UPDATE: Several readers send a link to this story, which unlike the report above says that the defendant was a pot dealer. I’m not sure why that makes a difference in terms of self-defense. The wounds are from behind, which could make a difference, but the facts recited are otherwise largely consistent with the account above.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Matt Rustler notes that while the English shooting may have been good or not, it’s not clearly a bad call based on the additional available evidence. [LATER: Er, stabbing, not shooting.]