From the PD Metro Blog:

Damon Wells is the man gun supporters imagined when they fought for the right to carry concealed weapons.

He had a permit to carry his gun, and he had the gun on him when a pair of teenage thieves approached him Saturday night on his front porch.

When one of the youths pulled a gun, Wells whipped out his and shot one of the boys multiple times in the chest, police said.

Arthur Buford, 15, died after stumbling away and collapsing on a sidewalk near East 134th Street and Kinsman Road.

City prosecutors decided Monday that Wells, 25, was justified and would not be charged for what appears to be the first time a concealed-carry permit holder has shot and killed an attacker.

Nonetheless, the shooting reignited the debate that roared three years ago when Ohio's concealed-carry law took effect.

Gun supporters said the weapon saved Wells' life. Opponents said it took Buford's - that the 15-year-old might be alive if a citizen had not been armed.

An angry throng of about 30 youths gathered Monday and set up a memorial at the intersection where Buford, a freshman at John F. Kennedy High School, died.

His cousin, Tameka Foster, 21, questioned why police refused to punish Buford's shooter. "They let that man run out freely," Foster said. "My cousin is dead."

Excuse me, Ms. Foster, but maybe your cousin wouldn't be dead if he wasn't a 15-year old criminal who pulled a gun on a citizen who was minding his own business on his private front porch. What should Wells have done? Invite Arthur to a series of conflict resolution sessions instead?

Toby Hoover, of the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, said she had not heard of any other fatal shooting involving a concealed-carry permit holder.

"This is one of the few where they actually used it to stop a crime," Hoover said.

But, she said, "there's still a dead kid here."

The PD's blog post said, "Opponents said [Well's gun] took Buford's [life] - that the 15-year-old might be alive if a citizen had not been armed." And that statement is true- But if Toby Hoover and other anti-2nd Amendment types had their way, Damon Wells might be dead.

Ohio should enact the Castle Doctrine so other law abiding citizens will have more legal protections when they decide to protect themselves and their family from violent criminals.