Posted on 03/06/2018 5:53:31 AM PST by SJackson
A few months after my father left our family home for good, my mother heard me screaming in the middle of the night. It was the kind of scream that made her grab her rifle in one hand and some ammo in another. It was a spring night and I was sleeping with my window open, which was right above my bed; I loved breathing in the fresh air. That night, in that open window, I heard the banging of a ladder, and by the time my mother made it into the room and began loading her gun, a man was about to climb in.
She said something along the lines of: “Bethany, come over here. I don’t want you to get his brain matter on your face.” I backed up behind her and my mother raised her gun. The would-be intruder slowly backed down the ladder. As he climbed down, my mother approached. The barrel of her rifle was inches away from his face and she told him, “Next time you come here, I won’t hesitate.” She had her gun pointed at him through the window on his way down, and as he went down the ladder she grabbed the top and shook it, just to put the fear of God into him one last time before he fled.
My mother admired Ralph Nader and voted for the Green Party candidate during every presidential election I walked into a booth with her. There was not an issue on which she was not the most progressive person in the room. And yet, she owned guns.
They weren’t “weapons of war” to us, nor were my parents “gun nuts”; they just had a camper trailer in upstate New York, where bears were common campfire intruders.
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From the New York Times.
Why didn’t she shoot the SOB. This was obviously planned with the ladder? Or wait-is this more liberal BS from the NY slime newspaper.
Shannon Watts (from Everytown - the gun control group) accused the author of having white privilege on Twitter. Things went crazy after that.
Why was a ladder there?
Yeah, that moron in the video is the grandson of Senator Lantos. Spend ten minutes looking him up and his family connections and it’s the swamp all over again. His aunt (Lantos’ daughter) ran for congress once and is neck deep in the swamp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Swett And then’s there’s her kids being fed into the swamp as we speak: http://www.yalebulldogs.com/sports/w-tennis/2016-17/bios/swett_sunday_7q7p?view=bio
My dog is my early warning system alerting me to grab a gun
“and by the time my mother made it into the room and began loading her gun, a man was about to climb in.”
Almost cost them having the ammunition separate.
Now imagine the ammo separate and in locked containers, and trigger locks, plus locked gun storage.
“Why was a ladder there?”
This gives us a clue:
“I heard the banging of a ladder...”
Maybe it’s just me, but I am seldom able to put up an extension ladder against the house - without banging it.
So, either the perp brought it with him, or...
The perp is not a Jedi Master, and hence unable to levitate up to the second-story window, so instead, he brought a ladder.
Regards,
Same with mine.
Mine is locked and loaded in a biometric/ keypad combo safe.
It’s set up where when I’m in bed, I can reach over and either swipe my finger or punch in the code. When it pops open my gun is orientated for me to easily grab it.
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