Does this mean all security at the NBC studios carry only bug spray? (snark)
Posted on 09/21/2014 11:16:08 AM PDT by pabianice
Americans have a constitutional right to armed self-defense, but they have other choices as well. The University of Colorado, for example, last year offered the students it sought to disarm with statewide legislation other “crime prevention tactics.” Options for female students facing rapists included passive resistance,” biting, and self-degradation. According to one proponent of the bill to ban the lawful carrying of firearms on campuses, such threats are “why we have the whistles.”
Along similar lines, NBC’s Today Show recently offered suggestions on how to deal with violent home invaders. Their basic advice: politely defer to the intruder, but if things really get out of hand, reach for the insect repellent.
For the tips, the Today Show interviewed former NYPD detective Wallace Zeins, whose New York City pedigree was evident in his recommendations. First, Zeins instructed viewers to use their vehicles’ key fobs as a makeshift alarm. Following that, the former detective told the audience to keep a can of wasp spray in the bedroom to use as an improvised chemical weapon against a violent intruder. Further, the report suggested abandoning one’s home to the intruder as soon as possible. If captured by a violent home invader, Zeins’s advice was to comply with the attacker’s every wish, and to never lie to them.
At no time did the report suggest that firearms were a viable option. Also unclear was whether Zeins himself has abandoned the firearms he carried as a police officer in favor of bug spray to protect his own home and family.
The Today Show’s omission of firearms as a legitimate means of self-defense isn’t especially surprising, given NBC’s lengthy history of anti-gun bias. Nevertheless, while the defensive capabilities of firearms for home defense may continue to escape the attention of NBC’s producers, the legitimacy of this option has been recognized by far weightier institutions.
The Supreme Court’s Heller decision noted one of the reasons D.C.’s handgun ban was unconstitutional was that “[t]he prohibition extend[ded] … to the home, where the need for defense of self, family, and property is most acute.” The Supreme Court’s opinion in McDonald reiterated this point. State legislatures have increasingly passed Castle Doctrine legislation to protect residents who employ armed self-defense from unjust prosecution and civil liability, amplifying a doctrine well-established in Anglo-American case law.
Further, there is strong evidence that gun use is the most effective means to defend oneself from criminal attack. A 1988 study by Florida State Professor of Criminology Gary Kleck titled Crime Control Through the Private Use of Armed Force determined, “Victim resistance with guns is associated with lower rates of both victim injury and crime completion for robberies and assaults than any other victim action, including nonresistance.”
Despite their best efforts, Today and Zein inadvertently gave one sound piece of advice, when the former detective told viewers to treat home invaders “like royalty.” While he apparently meant that a victim should be as obsequious as possible to an assailant, liberty-loving Americans have a strong tradition of treating interloping monarchs to the business end of their rifles.
You saved me the typing.
The Woolwich daylight butchery might have been averted with armed police nearby. As it was, the police on the scene did nothing despite witnessing the bloody atrocity - on a soldier no less - in real time.
Beside this guy telling people to submit and cower in fear, telling people to use Wasp spray for defense is the worst possible advice. Its actually straight up retarded. This ex-cop should be ashamed of himself.
Nah. Colt Mk IV Series 70 .45 ACP with Trijicon night sights.
There. Fixed it.
How about I just spray my ammo with wasp spray before I load it into the magazine.
Whistles are just the mating call for the rest of the gang of rapists. They say: “I’m helpless, come and get me!”
On the other hand, the sound of a twelve gauge ripping through the genitals of a wannabe rapist followed by his screams of agony is a very effective deterrent.
“Stop! I have cooties! See, insect repellent!”
I plan on treating any home invaders like Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
although in a pinch wasp spray does sound like a great idea
it shoots a straight stream of poison 10 feet away
Well yes, it is stupid advice, but a better weapon than fists for these wimps, I guess.
Let’s see, a drugged up predator who just kicked down my door will be stopped, rather than just pissed off, if I spray wasp killer at him/her.
Sounds legit....
A dead perp with a broken window or door behind him leaves no one to sue you.
NBC Offers Repellent Advice on Appeasing White House Invaders and Fence-Jumpers
Further, the report suggested abandoning one’s White House to the intruder
as soon as possible. If captured by a violent White House invader,
Zeins’s advice was to comply
with the attacker’s every wish, and to never lie to them.
Does this mean all security at the NBC studios carry only bug spray? (snark)
This stuff is crazy.
Drop trou, stick bare behind up in the air and beg the Obama voters not to hurt you too badly.
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For the fifth-column NBC home invaders, one can simply turn off the TV or radio.
Thank you! I’ll fix it.
Great! Gave me a laugh in an otherwise depressing story.
“...when the former detective told viewers to treat home invaders “like royalty.”
Including allowing them to deflower any brides, detective?
Idiot with a badge, gun, and the full por of the State behind him.
>>A dead perp with a broken window or door behind him leaves no one to sue you. <<
Have you discussed this with Zimmerman or Wilson? The perps family will come after your butt.
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