| I stand with Jason Sager in Florida's 5th Congressional District. |  |
Posted on 07/25/2010 5:57:50 AM PDT by marktwain
One gun isn't enough.
That was what Linda Smith (a pseudonym) was thinking after two thugs broke into her Oklahoma apartment. One was holding a weapon (she initially thought it was a knife but it turned out to be a screwdriver) at her throat, and the other was pacing back and forth while holding her purse and demanding her money and valuables. She screamed, and was told if she screamed again, she'd be dead.
She was doing as police recommend in robberies – comply with a robber's demands. But her Lady Smith & Wesson .38 special, which she carries by permit, was hidden in her purse – and the purse was being held by one of the attackers.
Then the situation, suddenly, got much, much worse: One of the robbers demanded that she take off her clothes.
"Come on, what are you waiting for," he told her as he started to yank on her sweatpants, trying to take them off.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I like that!
I feel all warm and toasty...
“Deadly situations can happen in the blink of an eye,” she said. “If you are not proactive … you are a vulnerable target.”
Truer words never spoken.
Liberty. 2.
Scum. 0.
Feel good post of the day!
My brother said, "See? They're nothing but trouble! Has anyone ever said 'Thank goodness I had a gun with me'? Anyone? ANYONE? No! You don't need them! They just cause trouble!"
He stopped being so vocal about it after I gave him about 100 article showing people saving themselves by having access to guns. It wasn't hard. But, Liberals really seem oblivious to the fact that it's a tough world out there and having some ability to protect yourself is a good thing. Liberals all think the government will always arrive and do it for you.
I hope Oklahoma has enacted their own “castle doctrine” to prevent the surviving manure pile or his family from suing the victim. If this were mAssachusetts, she’d be in jail by now.
Darreon Carter heh! I knew it was Amish! Damn them!
Isn’t it funny how when a conservative doesn’t like guns, (s)he doesn’t own a gun. When a liberal doesn’t like guns, they try to pass laws to prevent those who obey laws from having guns.
| I stand with Jason Sager in Florida's 5th Congressional District. | |
Big mistake on her part, the survivor will be out in a few years and looking to even the score.
Never leave ‘em twitching, Linda.
“She recalled with clarity the five shots, including those in which she picked out the attackers even though her boyfriend, black like the attackers, was struggling with them. He had been visiting and came in from the next room after the shots rang out.
He reported to Smith later that one of the attackers actually had a headlock on him when she fired, knocking the assailant off of him.
He had jumped into Smith’s defense as both attackers were beating Smith’s face and head, trying to knock her out to break her “death grip” on the weapon.”
This line bugs me, though:
Smith, an Endowment member of the National Rifle Association, said she's carried a gun for almost half a decade, but never dreamed she'd be in a situation where she'd have to use it to defend her life.
Of course she "dreamed" she'd be in a situation like that. That's why she got the training and the permit. She probably doubted she'd be in the situation, but she obviously knew it was, at least, a slim possibility.
Yeah, it seems nit-picky, but here's my point: people need to examine the potentials in life-- both the positives and the negatives. This woman did-- and it quite possibly saved her life, and that of her boyfriend.
“The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”
...exactly! The police is one way to stop an attacker. Waiting 20 minutes for their arrival with one dead on the floor is the other.
Smart to say, even if patently false. A prosecutor on an anti-gun jihad will portray the shooter as a Rambo-wannabe just itching to kill the poor misunderstood honor student who just happened to be in the wrong place.
Your statement reminded me of my friend "Red". Red got in a bar fight about 15 years ago, he came out on top in it but was arrested. I went to his trial, the plea deal had been made, he was supposed to be fined and given probation.
Red was before the judge and the judge told him, "I understand you were angry and hit him and knocked him to the floor but why did you have to hit him again"? Red's answer, "He was still twitchin' your honor". Red served two weeks in the county jail for that remark.
And “half a decade” sounds so much more serious than “five years”.
And it's interesting that this is the opposite of a common Liberal theme on abortion: "Don't like abortion? Don't have one."
Liberalism is a culture of death. Almost all of their positions (gun control, abortion, homosexuality, defense spending cuts, etc.) are likely to result in unnecessary deaths. They seem to constantly choose policies as if the extermination of humanity were their goal.
Satan's followers.
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Sniff.....I love a happy ending
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