NRA's newest convert: Even a hippie needs a gun

Daily Toreador (Lubbock, TX) ^ | 12/5/05 | Clara Cobb

[OKSooner]

"We grabbed butcher knives and head lamps and quickly turned on all the lights in my house. (SIDE NOTE: For this to be funny, make sure you are picturing two women in a hallway, clutching pillows across our bodies, butcher knives in hand, wearing head lamps and pajamas.) "

What thinking person would want someone like this on their side in a fight?

[OKSooner]

Ooh! Ooh! I've just found my new quote for my email account. Thanks.

[Blue Jays]

Hi JillValentine-

Grabbing a kitchen knife is a stereotypical Hollywood-inspired response...

Would she have the intestinal fortitude to plunge it deep into a criminal's chest to the point where his warm blood was gushing down her arms? Judging by all the casual "laughing and joking" in her narrative, I don't believe that to be the case.

If a linebacker-sized criminal entered my mother's house he would only realize for an absolutely frightening half-second that he had indeed met his match. It is not about the size of the dog in the fight, it's about the size of fight in the dog. Unlike my mother, this young lady in the story hasn't yet developed the important warrior mindset that is critical for survival.

As an aside, I've noticed that many people I classify as true warriors are some of the nicest, gentlest, and kindest people one could ever hope to meet. I think it is because they recognize the true value of peaceful times spent with family and friends.

~ Blue Jays ~

[Billthedrill]

Pillows and butcher knives? Good grief...

Classes are an excellent idea, and the young woman will quickly learn that a firearm brings sanity to this situation, not insanity. Of course, one needs to be adult enough to take on the responsibility for life and death, and if there's one thing that typifies the anti-gun liberal in my view it's the refusal to do precisely that.

[Grizzled Bear]

"Every time you hear a shotgun 'rack,' another liberal gets their brains."

[facedown]

Great compilation. Frost's is my favorite. I had a professor who used to preface his comments with "I think I'd like to disagree with that." Such conviction.

[JillValentine]

Hmm...interesting points.

The advantage of a gun is not only that it's a much more effective self-defense weapon, but also that people who would never have the fortitude to plunge a knife into someone's chest can be perfectly capable of shooting somebody. Of course, I would only use a knife for self-defense if all five of my guns somehow managed to become inaccessible or jammed, which is very unlikely.

"As an aside, I've noticed that many people I classify as true warriors are some of the nicest, gentlest, and kindest people one could ever hope to meet. I think it is because they recognize the true value of peaceful times spent with family and friends."

This is very true. Just remember that the sweet young woman down the street can become very dangerous when provoked. We do surprise people! :-)

[Joe 6-pack]

She should turn in her black lab for two of these...

[Teacher317]

"No man is poor who has a full gun safe"

[Redcloak]

(SIDE NOTE: For this to be funny, make sure you are picturing two women in a hallway, clutching pillows across our bodies, butcher knives in hand, wearing head lamps and pajamas.)

What's with the pillows? Were they worried that the intruder was armed with a whiffle-bat?!

[Lady Jag]

Frost's is my favorite. It appears gentle at first, with a razor-like cut to finish. Was that professor a woman? Just curious.

[Lady Jag]

Silly! Haven't you ever heard of Kevlar pillows?
me neither

[Freedom_no_exceptions]

It is nice when a liberal finally sees the light!

At least on the gun issue. I eagerly await her take on "progressive" taxation, smoking bans, school privatization, seat-belt laws, etc., etc., etc.

[bboop]

If she had had a gun, this story would have been a one-liner. "There was a guy inside my house." "I shot him." hahaha.

[facedown]

Was that professor a woman?

Why you chauvinist pig! Oh wait....

Actually he was a California transplant. Definitely didn't fit in fly-over country. Sandals in the dead of winter, etc.

[Lady Jag]

Facedown, I don't know if you're a man or a woman, but if I had asked "was it a man or a woman?" I would have been attacked and evicerated. Such is life.

[Chinito]

"It is nice when a liberal finally sees the light!"

Doesn't an angel get it's wings when this happens???

[facedown]

You'll be attacked and eviscerated just for showing up; that's the FR way!

As Teddy Roosevelt once said, "Type softly and carry a flamethrower."

[Lady Jag]

[556x45]

So, stupid liberal gets hit square in the face by reality -- now, because she sees the need, guns are finally OK. Gosh, I'm ever so glad she checked in with the rest of us and has given the OK. I must not have been present when the liberals were appointed moral compass for the rest of us. What a flaming loser. I wouldn't be surprised if she eventually turns anti-gun again....time will tell. Until then I view people like this at best as fair weather 'friends'.