Posted on 09/06/2002 7:14:34 AM PDT by Nat Turner
Dissect your own profile a little bit. Do you REALLY believe that way? The public schools are a joke BECAUSE of tolerance. They can't teach basics because of the social engineering built into the curriculum. I was in 5th grade in 1971, and we, admittedly, didn't know shit about Heather's two mommies, nor did we hang Kwanzaa decorations, but we could do algebra!
A finely tuned engine has to have some degree of tolerance built into the parts to work, but if you allow too much tolerance (read slop) into the system, it will tear itself apart. From your profile, again, I get that "tolerance" means "whatever the liberal wants to do."
You say you are willing to stand your ground (even though you majored in French, where I don't think they even have a phrase for that...but I digress), yet you bailed on America and went to England.
You can bemoan the "plight" of America, as is your right, but Britain faces its own major problems (remember the phrase from the Simpsons where the British guy is dressed like Napolean and says "I gets me brain medicines from the national 'ealth!") We continually hear how Britain, theologically is essentially "areligious", or virtually Godless. That bodes badly for their civilization.
You shoulda stayed in Austin. Scenery's better, the weather's better, music and food are WAY better, and you'd never hardly feel a repressed moment in those liberal environs.
You can call it "post consumer grass product" all day long, even in England, but bull$hit is still bull$hit.
It reminds me of that saying that no matter how good a woman looks, there's a guy out there tired of putting up with her Sh!t. This one had to leave the country to find someone that would put up with her. She's just an ignorant troll. I'm sorry we're even giving her the attention she's craving.
"When it comes to crime, the east side of Austin seems like West Lake Hills when compared to south Atlanta."
Unfortunately for Stockbridge, although it's in Henry County it's sandwiched between and slightly south of two of the very worst neighborhoods in S. Atlanta (one of which I have to drive through almost daily), and it's along I-75. When crime spreads, it tends to spread along the interstates.
Even if "statistically speaking" there are no mean and nasty people in that rosy-tinted Utopia where our Anglophile friend has taken up residence (although the UK crime stats don't bear this out), there sure are a significant number of them around here. . . . in Atlanta, gun control capital of the South.
and yes, I have been shot at before.
My initial question still stands: Since you brought it up, do tell! Let's hear about this experience(rubber bands and spitballs don't count). I for one would like some clarification on your statement here.
Ask yourself this:
Would a burglar/rapist/murderer have to be armed to harm you?
Would you need/like to be armed in order to stave off same burglar/rapist/murderer?
In the hands of an average size male assailant, a wide variety of common objects can become deadly weapons. Ball bats (or cricket bats over there, I guess), iron pipe, hammer, tire iron, butcher knife, chain, etc. etc. I remember a case where some low-life murdered his common law wife with a can of surplus government ham. . . . . (when canned hams are outlawed, only outlaws will have hams . . . ?)
1. The Sig is a better "natural pointer" for me than the Glock. That however is a purely personal idiosyncrasy. Everybody's different. The only way to determine this for yourself is to shoot 'em both.
2. The little 26 doesn't have the squirrely decocking lever that the big Glocks have. It's double action all the time. So that's one less thing to worry about. Of course, you'll have to check the trigger pull. On the old Smith revolvers, for example, or my .455 Webley, DA is such a hard pull that it will swing your sight picture out of line.
3. I'm not a big fan of 9mm (always carried .45 except that in very hot summer weather I used to carry a .380 Walther PPK concealed, better something, even "9mm short", than nothing) so I have never inspected or tried out the 26. I would definitely "try before you buy" because this is a tiny pistol, so small you can't get your little finger on the grip, and I imagine the recoil is going to be significant (the recoil on my PPK is WORSE than the recoil from my Colt Lightweight Officer's Model).
Here's a review of the pistol from a lady:
Glock 26: A Lady's Point of View
She seems to indicate qualified approval, but note the difficulties with stovepipes and the magazine release. Neither of those is a good thing!
My point was that an average male assailant does not need to be armed (with anything) in order to cause deadly harm to the average female victim.
The female victim, on the other hand, deserves to be armed with the most effective means of self defense - and that's not a canned ham.
I have 8+ years of martial arts training, but I'm grabbing the glock if I need to confront an intruder.
Because she could very well end up with some bad meat in the can.
I'm glad to see that even with 8 years of training you agree with me that the glock (or in my case the 1911A1) is the way to go. With just a couple of years of aikido in a VERY traditional and strict dojo (they don't hand out kyus merely for time in grade), it's quite clear to me that you don't learn any "nifty martial arts techniques" just by your former boyfriend "showing" them to you. I was a fencer in college, so I'd probably be more inclined to grab a stick and exercise some "modified jo-waza" if I couldn't get to the 1911.
What you may not have learned yet about your new country is that if this precise scenario had occurred in Britain instead of in America, you would get a longer sentence than the rapist if the police ever found out. Self-defense, even not involving a gun, is considered unsporting there.
Proper British procedure would be for the family's surviving next-of-kin to file a human rights protest with the authorities in Brussels, then write a scathing letter to the Guardian about the inadequacy of police protection in that part of town.
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