Stone-cold 11-year-old boy introduces burglar to full metal jacket round

An Alabama home-school student proved that old adage: The only way to stop a bad guy with a hamper is a good guy with a gun.

Chris Gaither, 11, was alone on the first floor of his Talladega, Ala., home, protecting our freedoms when he heard someone break into his house and walk up the stairs, Birmingham's WVTM-TV reported.

Gaither grabbed a hand gun and said he encountered the burglar as the intruder was already on his way down the stairs, headed for the front door. The burglar had a hamper in tow.

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"When he was coming down the stairs, that's when he told me he was going to kill me, f-you and all that," he said. "When I pulled the gun, I guess he didn't think it was a real gun because he kept on walking."

Gaither started firing as the- burglar was making his exit. He almost got away until one of the full metal jacket rounds went right through his leg.

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"He started crying like a little baby."

The burglar was taken to the hospital.