[Lurker]

Civilized society thanks you, ma’am.

[TheDon]

“When she started to feel unsafe, Martin” should have driven away.

[NonValueAdded]

What, she couldn’t vomit or pee?

[andyk]

Whoa, check out this comment:

Yay! Rodriguez wins the wet tee shirt contest.

[Mastador1]

Rodriguez’s brother apparently got caught in the crossfire and was shot in the abdomen while he was seemingly trying to stop him from stabbing Martin.

Sorry the brother got shot if he was trying to stop the attack, but what crossfire? There was no gun battle going on that I read in the article. And I knew someone was going to blame her for not running away, but I think she did right by staying in her car. It is the other woman's husband that caused the physical altercation. Some people may believe in running away, but that doesn't always save you.

[chiefqc]

She could have called the cops and they would have arrived in a hour or so, shoot a dog or two and arrested her for some trumped up charge.

But she did everyone a favor and reduced the world of another moron.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Even the cockroaches pack heat in Texas.

[PotatoHeadMick]

You know that’s a nice picture and all but I think the whole idea promoted in US schools that the War of Independence was a battle between “Americans” and their “British” rulers obscures the real, much more relevant issue.

It was not a war between Americans and British but a war between Americans who supported the government’s right to tell them what to do and Americans who wanted more freedom from their government. Most of those Americans would also have regarded themselves as British, if that doesn’t sound too complicated.

Paul Revere did not warn “the British are coming”, he warned that the regulars, ie government forces, were coming and that the citizen militias needed to arm themselves to fight the government troops.

Of course if schoolkids were taught this today it might put a whole different perspective on the position of the individual citizen and his right to resist the government by force of arms, something that government-funded, union-member teachers in government run schools are unlikely to feel comfortable with. Much easier to represent the issue as a simple matter of national liberation against “foreigners”.

In my opinion the tag in the picture should say the day the government came to take away Americans’ guns.

Sorry if I ramble a bit here.