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GMA Home Protection Tips: Chimes, Mini-Cactus, But No Guns
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 07/25/2007 5:51:38 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

No guns please, we're liberals . . .

As soon as today's "Good Morning America" began to tease an upcoming how-to segment on protecting against home invasion, I immediately suspected the show wouldn't discuss one obvious measure: obtaining fireams and learning how to use them.

And sure enough . . .

GMA ran the segment in the wake of the horrific home-invasion in Connecticut in which the the wife and two daughters of a prominent doctor were killed and the man badly beaten. An expert was brought in to discuss various measures, and Chris Cuomo added some suggestions of his own. They ranged from keeping shrubbery low, to installing lights, alarms and air chimes, to putting peepholes in the door, to creating a "safe room" to which a family can flee.

But never did GMA breathe a word about firearms. My favorite moment was Cuomo's Cactus Defense. That's Chris' hand pointing at that lethal little mini-cactus in the window planter.

GOOD MORNING AMERICA CO-HOST CHRIS CUOMO: Something as simple as cactus. Sounds simple, right? Oh, they wouldn't care about that, right? But they do. They think about these things. Chimes, outside the window.

View video here.

I don't know, Chris. If your home were being invaded, what would you rather have handy: a spider cactus or a Smith & Wesson?

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: banglist; chriscuomo; democrats; demwimps; gma; guns; homeinvasion; liberals; msm
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To: Tijeras_Slim
FYI, in the state of CA it's agin' the law to own cactii that big...
41 posted on 07/25/2007 6:21:29 AM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("Flying is like Life: Know where you are, where you're going, and how to get there." - 'Ol Dad)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Lay a bed of nails in front of your windows, like Bronson did in one of the Death Wish movies.


42 posted on 07/25/2007 6:21:54 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (I like Rodney Carrington's recipe for World Peace.)
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To: GoldCountryRedneck

I’m not surprised. What ain’t agin’ the law in CA?


43 posted on 07/25/2007 6:23:10 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Clam Digger

One of the scariest things about these people is that they are determined to apply their home protection techniques to our national security.


44 posted on 07/25/2007 6:25:45 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: GoldCountryRedneck

Does Kah-lee-foryna have a 10 cactus per household limit?


45 posted on 07/25/2007 6:27:15 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Do they keep the cacti locked up to ensure children don’t accidentally get pricked?

Is there a seven-day wait to purchase a cactus for home defense?

46 posted on 07/25/2007 6:28:38 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: Savage Beast

Hmmmm, maybe all the illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico are actually fleeing dangerous cacti — there are alot of them in the Mexican desert.


47 posted on 07/25/2007 6:29:00 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Clam Digger

I lived in a high crime area for a short time up North, and one of few who never had a problem. because....

I was known as a former law enforcement officer surely to have a gun and trained in it’s use

and secondly had a cute cocker spaniel (scary huh!)

thirdly - my wife daily worked out at the gym and was learning kick boxing (and that scares me!)

but no cactus or chimes


48 posted on 07/25/2007 6:31:01 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

In a sane world, the media would be running stories about the millions of crimes thwarthed annually by citizens with firearms. Instead we get nonsense about cati and windchimes. And a too large percentage of the population laps it up.


49 posted on 07/25/2007 6:32:26 AM PDT by jrp
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To: GoldCountryRedneck
FYI, in the state of CA it's agin' the law to own cactii that big...

Well SURE! Anyone can see that's an ASSAULT CACTUS.

50 posted on 07/25/2007 6:35:17 AM PDT by Gorzaloon (Food imported from China = Cesspool + Flavr-Straw™)
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To: elpadre
but no cactus or chimes

Its a miracle you survived. Until this GMA report came out, I was convinced door and window locks, motion detectors, and a few .40 caliber pistols were pretty effective deterrents, especially combined with the occassional sounds of gunfire in the woods behind my home when I am plinking. Now I see how naive I have been. I'm headed to the local greenhouse. Now I realize that the plants around the home

51 posted on 07/25/2007 6:36:05 AM PDT by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

What a bunch o’ damn idiots.

With advice like this, GMA stands for ‘Go Murder Americans’.


52 posted on 07/25/2007 6:36:08 AM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We Don't Know. Where Rudy Went. Just Glad He's Not. The President. Burma Shave.")
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Windchimes are to annoy your neighbors.

I remember reading a Dear Abby years back by a woman who claimed that all over her neighbors must love her windchimes, because they all keep stealing them at night...

Abby broke it to her as gently as she could...

53 posted on 07/25/2007 6:36:47 AM PDT by gridlock (Peace is Not and Option)
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To: dashing doofus
Does Kah-lee-foryna have a 10 cactus per household limit?

Yeah. They really stick it to us...

54 posted on 07/25/2007 6:38:20 AM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("Flying is like Life: Know where you are, where you're going, and how to get there." - 'Ol Dad)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Remember that California is full of liberals, they don’t care when children get “pricked”.


55 posted on 07/25/2007 6:38:27 AM PDT by SteelCurtain_SSN720 (If you pass the rabid child, say "hammer down" for me)
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To: Hacklehead

No problem with that.....


56 posted on 07/25/2007 6:39:41 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: mkjessup

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1871256/posts?q=1&;page=1

GMA is a menace, giving this dangerous advice. I’m giving them a call today and telling them so!


57 posted on 07/25/2007 6:42:47 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: PapaBear3625; Hacklehead
My son who is a LEO has a rather large dog that lives in his house. When anyone fakes an attack on my son, the dog attacks my son. However, the dog is very protective of my D-I-L.

If a bad guy broke in his house, the dog would abet him. Fortunately my son has a gun in every room of the house but is hoping that his dog doesn't learn how to use them.

58 posted on 07/25/2007 6:42:50 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: mkjessup

They are not being stupid. They know that people who hear about the home invasion are going to think about steps to protect themselves, and this $h*t is to lead them away from thought of guns.


59 posted on 07/25/2007 6:43:39 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: Travis McGee

Hehehehe.....damn good idea ya got there!


60 posted on 07/25/2007 6:44:14 AM PDT by XenaLee
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