ThinkProgress editor gets slapped around for criticizing woman who defended herself against an armed assailant. So he deleted the tweet.

The story of a young woman successfully defending herself with a gun against an armed attacker tore up the interwebs last week. The story got a lot of clicks here at TheBlaze (as it did for many other sites, I'm sure). From TheBlaze's report:

LaAvion Goings, 19, approached a 25-year-old woman at a Chicago bus stop Tuesday morning, pulled out a gun, and announced a robbery, police told WLS-TV.

Easy pickings, right?

Uh, not so much.

See, police told the station the victim has a concealed carry license — and she got practical with it, pulling out her own gun and fatally shooting Goings.

But ThinkProgress LGBTQ editor Zack Ford was really not happy about a woman defending herself.

Linking to a Daily Caller link about the story, Ford wrote in a now-deleted tweet, "Conservatives are thrilled a woman with a concealed-carry permit shot and killed a 19-year-old would-be mugger. That's not how justice works. The penalty for theft is not death, nor do we want it to be."

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After being severely ratioed on Twitter for his less-than-brilliant take that a woman should apparently just assume the best of her armed attacker, Ford deleted his tweet.