TX: Grandma uses NAA Guardian to Stop Knife Attack

Gun Watch ^ | 22 April, 2015 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

From nbcdfw.com:

“He stood there and we talked for a while, [him] just asking for directions and me giving them to him,” Turner recalled. “Never thought that when I turned my head that that young man would stick a knife to my throat.”

But the 74-year-old grandmother had an option: An NAA Guardian that she had decided to carry with her that day.

“I seen the gun laying there. And I figured that would work better than the knife,” Turner said. “I just reached down, got the gun and turned around and pointed it to his face. And I told him, I said, ‘You back off, or I’ll blow your head off.’ And his eyes got big and he just backed up and he took off walking down the street like nothing happened.”

Link to video

The pistol is clearly an earlier model of the NAA Guardian, a well made pistol designed for concealed carry and self defense.   This one looks like a .32, but they are made in four calibers.

Here is a clear picture of the same model:

The event is the most common sort of self defense uses of a gun.   A criminal attempts to violate someones rights.   The victim produces a gun.  The criminal runs off.  No one is shot.

What is remarkable about this event is that it was publicized by a local television station, an NBC affiliate, no less.    A few years ago, this sort of event would never have been aired.   We are not told if Jewell Turner had a Concealed Handgun License.   It does not matter.  Texas liberalized their car carry law a few years ago, one of the incremental improvements in firearms law that does not make the national news, but can make large differences in peoples lives.  Jewell did not need a concealed handgun license to carry in her car.

The social climate has changed in the last 20 years.  Jewell is now recognized as having done a social good by stopping a crime.   She can be proud of her actions, instead of worrying that she will be charged with the illegal carry of a gun, and have to spend much of her retirement money to defend herself from an anti self-defense prosecutor.

So the self defense action is reported to the police, and the local television station tells the story.   Self defense actions such as this have always been common in the United States, but people were afraid to report them when the demonization of  gun ownership was at its height.  The fact that they are now being told shows that second amendment supporters have triumphed over the disarmists who say that such events never happen.

The old media is no longer able to spike stories such as this.  This is why attitudes in the country have changed, and a majority now say that protecting second amendment rights is more important than restricting peoples freedom to protect themselves.  When the disarmists raise awareness of the issue of the right to keep and bear arms, some people investigate, learn the truth, and are converted into second amendment supporters.  It is a ratcheting effect.  Once a person has "taken the red pill"  they do not go back to supporting citizen disarmament.  It does not work in the other direction.  You do not see second amendment supporters becoming disarmists.  

Definition of  disarmist 

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[skinkinthegrass]

A real American feel good story..
Pink Liberals will be outraged.
..gun grabbing dems, are sadden.

[JRandomFreeper]

She did well. I wish her all luck in the future, because she used a big chunk just getting out of a confrontation alive. ;)

/johnny

[Sasparilla]

Those most upset are the knife wielding thug and Liberals who wanted Granny disarmed because had she fired the pistol someone could have been seriously injured.

[JJ_Folderol]

It was a couple of years ago that I was in a local shop, in line to check out behind this archetypal ‘sweet little old lady.’

She was trying to make exact change and began unloading her purse, while chatting with the woman at the register. About the third item she laid on the counter was a small revolver.

She found her couple of pennies and calmly put her things back in the purse.

Nobody even blinked an eye: this is Texas after all.

[ZOOKER]

Income inequality!

She had a car, and a gun. All he had was a knife!

It's just not fair!

[longfellow]

Should have done us all a favor and pulled the trigger.

[RKBA Democrat]

If this nice lady had been carrying openly in “pro gun” Texas, she would have gone to jail. Such is the actual state of gun rights in the Lone Star state: one of the most expensive concealed permits in the country, fingerprints and photo required, training class required. Open carry strictly prohibited.

Contrast this with the “liberal” state of Vermont: open and concealed carry legal, no license required at all.

Frankly Texas is pathetic when it comes to gun rights. All hat, no cattle.

[so_real]

We laugh because of the stupidity of that line of thinking, and yet ... you have channeled accurately a truly liberal response to the situation. That is exactly "how" they think. Men maybe from Mars, and women from Venus. But I have no idea where liberals were dredged up.

[WildHighlander57]

Yup, don’t mess with ‘sweet little old’ Texan ladies!

[Celtic Conservative]

Nice gun. I have a Taurus Pt 740 about that size. Well I did, until a rather unfortunate boating accident. ;^)

CC

[RKBA Democrat]

And then she’d be in jail, with some so-called “conservative” prosecutor doing their best to send her to prison for the rest of her life.

[Old Sarge]

Once a person has "taken the red pill" they do not go back to supporting citizen disarmament.

The problem is, people usually don't change, not deep down at the roots.

Once a Leftist, always a Leftist, even if they become a "liberal who got mugged" - because it now affects them personally, and not just the "evil white teabaggers"...

[BuckeyeTexan]

Men maybe from Mars, and women from Venus. But I have no idea where liberals were dredged up.

[ViLaLuz]

She was justified to shoot him. To bad she didn’t.

[skinkinthegrass]

it seems these loses over water are interesting...
our waterways are sure well-defended. 😐

[MHGinTN]

“But I have no idea where liberals were dredged up.” A Venusian septic ttank. Time to pump the tank perhaps?

[marktwain]

“And then she’d be in jail, with some so-called “conservative” prosecutor doing their best to send her to prison for the rest of her life.”

Probably not in Texas.

[RKBA Democrat]

Depends. If it was rural Texas, maybe not. In Houston or Austin, you’re going to jail. You might get off with a competent attorney and your life savings, but I sure wouldn’t want to try it.

There’s the nut of use of deadly force: only used to defend life and only if the choice of going to jail is the better choice.