Friday, February 23, 2007
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Chicks With Guns
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
12:44 PM
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Cam Edwards visits one of my favorite subjects this week:
And then there’s thestory of Suzanne Carson... Suzanne’s married and amother of two in the small town of Coalfield, Tennessee. Last Friday,about ten minutes after Suzanne’s husband left for work, she heard anoise in the kitchen. Leaving the bedroom where her three-year old wassleeping, she walked down the hallway and looked through the kitchen tosee a man trying to get in through the back door. Suzanne dashed backto her bedroom and retrieved a pistol, then ran back to the kitchen intime to see the door opening and the man coming inside.
Suzanne warned the man that she had a gun, but that didn’tstop him. Either did the first shot Suzanne fired. The man kept cominginto the home, closer to Suzanne and her children. Suzanne fired twomore shots before the man turned and ran out the back door. She and herchildren were unharmed. In fact, her three-year old child slept throughthe entire incident, though her four-year old son heard the sounds ofshots fired.
More stories at the link. They're good. You can see and hear more from Cam at NRA News. Listen to his radio show from 9-midnight on the site or on Sirius.
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...and a recipient of about 23 direct mailers per day for the last 8 years, I'd like to make a very controversial assertion:
"We've won."
Though not a total victory (if you're an Illinoisan, for example), but as much of a political victory as you'll get in this country. True, federalism prevails, as there are some enclaves where ownership is restricted. I say, if you want to live in San Fran or Chicago, then you're stuck with the laws, notably the unethical ones forbidding legal possession. Nobody's keeping you there.
We have successfully preserved gun rights, fought our cases in the courts, and ensured law abiding citizens fair access to firearms for self-protection. We've intimidated the gun-hating Democrats and urban RINOs in national elections.
But there's a very key issue that follows from this anecdote that I think should be a presiding issue in upcoming elections: crime. Rates have increased in this country; today, a young kid was abducted at gunpoint at his bus stop. This is unacceptable, and this is one area where the Republicans have a clear edge in doctrine and in their techniques for combatting crime. Rudy is not a pure conservative, but by all accounts was a very competent mayor, and I think this should be highlighted.
Hopefully, we'll come up with concrete proposals to wipe out organized criminal groups like MS-13 and the urban gangs; propose longer terms for felons; increase the number of prisons and greatly enhance the severity of incarceration; replace animals with prisoners for medical experimentation; and apply the death penalty far more liberally and effectively. With the degree of forensic expertise, there's no reason a capital murder conviction should be appealed incessantly. Allow them one appeal, then harvest their organs for use when a transplant is needed. |
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Thank God the kid was found safe and unharmed, according to CNN.
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Hot Flying Lead: a technology hundreds of years old, and still the doctor's best prescription for curing violent criminals of what ails them. Keep the medicine handy, and apply the cure generously during sudden outbreaks of the disease. |
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That I can agree with Lydia 100%. |
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I hope you're right. But vigilance must assume that you're wrong.
And what's with the three shots, no goblin thing? I know a fine lady who needs to do some time at the range.... |
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I hope you're right as well, but the fight still rages in NJ and NY. Here in the People's Republik if NJ, our legislators have responded to an increase in gun related violence between Crips and Bloods by going after legal gun owners. They want to impose a limit of one-gun purchase a month bill and restrict ammo purchases to only those guns that the state knows you own, meaning you will have to register any pre-ban guns, etc. Across the river, NY's Rep. Maloney (D) is drafting a new assault weapons ban even more far reaching than the recently expired one.
As Morgen just said, vigilance is the watchword. |
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My only comment is that Suzanne needs a bigger gun and perhaps a little target practice
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Or Suzanne needs some shot loads for her pistol. For in the house, I keep .38 special shot loads in my .357mag. 2 loads of shot, then 4 of 357mag slugs. The first two to make sure he knows he is getting hit, then the slugs to put him down. And at close range, the shot loads will do the job quite well without the slugs. But it seems alot of folks dont know about the shotgun loads available for pistols. And they are great for those that live in apartments or having folks or kids on the other side of those walls that a perp might be standing in front of |
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Kudos to this woman for protecting her family. Growing up with a father who was a gun dealer, we had many types of weapons including semi-automatic uzi's ready for any intruder who would like to venture into our home. Fortunatley, no one ever did. If they had however, my mother was the best shot in the house. At 69 she still can shoot her .45 better than I can. God help the guy who tries to break in that house.
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doesn't this woman know she could have killed this man!!!
this loss of life would have been a tragedy. we don't even know what he was doing there. he could have been lost or hungry. he could have needed help and we greet him with "hot lead" as someone put it.
did he hurt anyone???
no, he didn't.
all i can say is that she was lucky there was no loss of life. a senseless killing would have been on her head and she would have been GUILTY!! this stranger just needs some help, someone who cares.
where is the compassion!!! |
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I love guns. I'm the child of a hunter and avid gun enthusiast, and I learned from an early age to respect the power guns have. I understood they could "go bang, kill baby." I also understood, too, why my mother slept with one on her headboard when my daddy worked night shifts. She had to use it when three toughs were trying to break into our house late one night. They were trying to kick in a heavily padlocked door. She and my elderly uncle who lived across from us were both firing on them as they chased them from our home. I own a shotgun and three handguns that my daddy gave me. I want to get a permit to carry. My only fear is that when I do, the government might get a bee in its bonnet and come confiscate my weapons someday. |
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