No guns please, we're liberals . . . 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?
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Reminds me of the story of the man whose job it was to get gorillas out of trees using a ladder, a trained dog and a shotgun...
First duty is to yourself (No duty to retreat)
Last I knew, NYS's duty-to-retreat law was still on the books.
Continue, please...
“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.”
The solution is simple. Send your D.I.L. to confront the burglar.
The Courant’s blog today had 900+ entries about this crime, I read thru for 10 minutes and saw only a few responses that mentioned the 2nd Amendment right for the DR. to protect his family by arming himself...friggin’ CT is so full of idiot Libs...watch for a run on Cauti plants, LOL!
I think that’s PeeWee’s playhouse....
Travis,
LOVE IT and will do it.
Thanks for the added safety tip.
My pop wrote him off...as a "security device". LOL
Yeah, its pretty eye-opening what the CT bloggers think, though a number of them want to fry the crooks. But the fools calling for people to enter a 5K road race actually came from............ this will be absolutely shocking...........Boston! LOL. Perhaps t-shirts can also be printed up to show solidarity with the murdered women. If they are really serious, they will have rubber wrist bands manufactured, which can be sold for a buck a pop. Imagine the fear the criminals in CT will experience when they see how many people show up for the 5K.
I travel a lot so my wife always has a couple of live-in house guests, Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson. And of course she pretty good friends with Mr. Remington and Mr. Winchester. She also has a Brazilian friend named Mr. Rossi. I guess we wouldn’t fit in with the GMA/cactus/windchime croud.
When I had a home security company, industry experts claimed that the yard signs and stickers we gave with a $3000 system provided an 80% deterrent. Why didn’t that doc in Conn have a good security system, and how did he escape when all the women died? Something fishy there, if you ask me.
Oh, I don't know. A safe room with a nice field of fire and killing ground? I like the idea.
The way our house is configured the boss-lady could get a clear shot with her at their backs as they came up the stairs and with mine I could hit at point blank range any that made it to the landing. She's got double ought and I'm loaded with slugs.
A well placed safe room, if possible, makes a nice place to hunker down and do some serious deterrence.
GMA is irresponsible, most home invaders barge in through the front or back DOOR!
they have even learned to wait for you to be entering or exiting the house so they know the alarm is off.
If you told those idiots that exact thing, they would probably praise you for having the courage to stand up and admit you have an alternative lifestyle, and then make some speeches about gay marriage...
I might take them serious!
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