Not likely.
Posted on 11/17/2012 5:33:58 AM PST by marktwain
You’re a mom on an evening walk with your 6-year-old son and you are suddenly approached “aggressively” by a man who exposes himself and then suggests that you stand there and watch what’s next, so what do you do?
In Longview, a Clark County community near Vancouver along the I-5 corridor, you reach into your pocket, pull out your Ruger .380 ACP semiautomatic, and tell the fellow rather bluntly, “You need to leave or I’ll shoot you. I’m going to blow your brains out.”
The fellow left, with the woman’s Norwegian Behund Hound hot on his heels. According to the Longview Daily News, the unidentified woman hadn’t carried her gun in the past to the park, but this time around she brought it along because it was foggy and dark, and she “just had a feeling.”
KVI’s John Carlson had quite a chat about this incident Friday morning with Portland’s Lars Larson, the syndicated conservative talk host who has latched onto this story due to its proximity. The incident happened at Lake Sacajawea near the Martin Dock, and the sleazebag who apparently did this may just be a known sex offender.
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I heard of a factory fellow who thought he would get a reaction from an older female co-worker by exposure. She didn’t flinch. She reached down, grabbed it, and started walking. She said, well, that’s nice, let’s go show it off. He was a little sore afterwards because she wasn’t impressed and she wasn’t gentle. He is lucky it was rippied out by the root. LOL
While this woman did everything right, there is one more thing she could have done, which has been shown to be very effective against “weenie-waggers”. A cell phone camera.
In some places, police are now encouraging women who are assailed on buses and subways to take one or more pictures of their assailant, mostly because it erases all doubt in the mind of the police, so they can go into the full “wolf pack” mode to chase down the “crippled small-prong”.
However, that being said, the pervs know that once their picture has been taken, they are severely p0wned, so if you have a camera in one hand, it is a very good idea to have a gun in the other. That is, the perv might rush you to get your camera instead of running away, so may need a few ‘red holes’ to convince him to not do that.
In any event, about the only criticism from police at that point will be about your shot grouping.
I too am old and also own a .357.
Great little equalizer that.
Back in the 60s, my g.f. at the time was sitting on a park bench reading. She had her legs crossed and the top leg bouncing up and down, as females are prone to do and a jogger sprinted by and snatched one of her shoes off and kept running. I told her that she was lucky that he was a relatively harmless pervert/thief.
This is definitely one of those cases that if the police did recover her shoe.... uh, let’s just say she really, REALLY wouldn’t want it back. LOL!!
Aim about three feet lower.
Point and laugh is always the best response. If you have your wits about you, an "OMG It's so tiny!" with the laughter will disarm your assailant. If you want to go for the home run, use the old David Niven line about a man revealing his shortcomings.
There's a lot to be said for human intuition. It's saved my life on more than one occasion.
I've never seen a can of hornet spray powerful enough to hit someone at ten feet or more, in a bottle small enough to put in your pocket.
“”You need to leave or I’ll shoot you. I’m going to blow your brains out.”
Aim about three feet lower. “
The perv was thinking with his.....well, ......let’s just say if she aimed 3 feet lower she would be pointing at his ankles.
She should first laugh, then say.....I’’ve seen one of those before, looks like a penis, only much smaller.
Its very unlikely that a man would expose himself to another man, fear of getting the crap kicked out of him...Mostly its done to women and childre...
Ya, hoping, that’s when I show him mine ... cute little Beretta Tomcat .32 with Glaser Safeties. Guess what goes first.
Say, “That looks like a man’s penis, only smaller,” as you laugh and take aim?
How about, “That thing is so small, it’ll take me two or three shots to actually hit it.”
Either way, a personal remark might dampen his enthusiasm for a repeat display of his shortcomings.
God made man.
Sam Colt made them equal.
if it happened to a man by a homo pervert, there’d be a dead homo pervert on the ground.
same goes if the man is older, smaller, has physical problems, or is outnumbered.
it is called ‘disparity of force’.
I advocate that every woman carry. I’d wager there would be a lot fewer rape attempts and I’m certain that there wouldn’t be any repeat rapists.....
Laugh real loud!
Not likely.
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