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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Mossberg 500 used to be my friend. But now I have new German friends named Hechler and Koch, and know a few austrians named Glock. To show how much I like Europeans, I also have an Italian friend named Beretta.
They are all really nice guys, unless you attack their owner.
Well said. How can these people truly be so naive or stupid or both?
Just imagine the terror in that thug's eyes if you had whipped the door open and shook your windchimes at him!
Or if I'd shown him my cactus plant!
But what if you hit him with your prickly pear cactus?
That would have been bad!
A dog would increase a home's carbon footprint so of course a dog is out of the question.
But it just might be possible to offset that carbon signature by growing a few plants, like cactus, right? So maybe the dog would be acceptable.
I don’t know, Chris. If your home were being invaded, what would you rather have handy: a spider cactus or a Smith & Wesson?
I’m betting he has a doorman.
Don't be greedy.
I”m thinking that’s not the kind of room GMA is talking about. LOL.
And please don't forget the Brie.
The liberals are even taking away the options of having pit bulls and rotweillers as a means of property defense.
And a hug.
My .357 revolver is two feet away, and just beyond it is my Remington 870 short-barreled (but legal) shotgun loaded with 00 shells. I've got a clear view and have practiced what I'd do.
Alas, it's too cold where I live to have cacti, so I'm not completely safe.
“Good point. A dog is probably better than a gun.”
I had that debate in my head and now have several of both. ;)
Nobody comes up my driveway without the dogs sounding off.
“Mossberg 500 used to be my friend. But now I have new German friends named Hechler and Koch, and know a few austrians named Glock. To show how much I like Europeans, I also have an Italian friend named Beretta.”
You have such nice friends. :)
My first thought was: DOG and GUN!
It's scary how much my husband and I think alike sometimes. We both told the t.v. screen that a .357 would be useful, also. LOL!
GMA should have just run the “Home Alone” movie over their time slot. We could have learned how to trip op burglars with marbles and by hitting them in the face with paint cans. Throw in a remote control car, and your security system is on par with Fort Knox.
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There might be a business opportunity here: for plastic cacti with needles. Of course, these would do nothing to offset global warming, and might create a recycling problem.
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