Posted on 03/30/2013 6:41:25 AM PDT by marktwain
Starting last month, Little Rock Gun Rights Examiner Jennifer Cruz wrote a "30 days of guns saving lives" series, as a response to media exploitation of criminal "gun violence" in furtherance of the agenda of more oppressive gun regulation, and also in response to the mass media's chronic under-reporting of defensive gun use. The series was successful enough that she has continued it even after the planned 30 days ran out--and there is certainly no danger of running out of such incidents.
They are of course all compelling stories, as accounts about decent people protecting their and others' lives from predatory evil are bound to be. Yesterday's "Virginia woman shoots husband in self-defense," though, is perhaps of special interest. What makes this story particularly significant is that those who disparage the very notion of armed self-defense for women often justify their disdain with the puzzling argument that women commonly know their assailants. A "study," by the rabidly anti-gun Violence Policy Center, for example, citing statistics VPC claims "dispel many of the myths" about women and guns:
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
The Misleading Murderer that you Know
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-misleading-murderer-that-you-know.html
“The most accurate crime statistics are on murders...The largest category of victim to murderer is unknown.”
Hmm.
My sister was killed by someone she knew. Sadly, she fell about ten feet short of making it to where her two handguns were located. If she had made it there, the animal who did it would be feeding worms instead of being fed by the taxpayers for the rest of his natural life.
Sorry to hear it.
Thanks.
I am very sorry to hear about your sister. A person is just as dead whether they are murdered by someone they know or by someone that they do not know.
Murder is just as final for the victim in either case as any victim would tell you if they could. And those victims would also tell you to do whatever it takes to defend your life no matter what politicians say.
Remember the old Roman saying:
“keep your firends close, but your enemies closer.”
Let’s start a new American saying:
“Keep your friends close, but your weapons closer.”
If you put (photos) in the title you need to post the photos in the thread.
I guess Mario Puzo was Roman (i.e. Italian), in a manner of speaking and he's so old he's resting in a cemetery somewhere, but I think that was one of those cryptic movie sayings that doesn't actually mean anything. It's the Godfather version of a Yogi Berra-ism.
Titles cannot be changed, as per freerepublic policy.
Tried posting a picture, it did not work.
No problem on the title. I was just being rude. My apology for that.
For posting pics, html sandbox thread is a big help. It is really easy to post pics and fun.
In case anyone is interested in learning how to do really neat stuff with your posts, here is the html sandbox thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2973937/posts
Really quite fun and easy to follow. Some FReepers did a really good job with it.
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