I tried it but it was too small for my hand.
Posted on 09/18/2010 5:16:21 AM PDT by Loyalist
Mavis Moore was 4 years old the first time she faced the barrel of a long gun. A neighbour pointed his .22 at the girl and her mother when they stopped by to pick up a newspaper in their small Saskatchewan town.
Sixty-eight years later, Moore remembers dropping one blue angora mitten in the snow as the man stood above them on his steps.
“You can't imagine what it's like, this adult man having a gun on you and threatening to kill you and your mother,” she says.
Moore's mother picked up her child — and the mitten — and left. She never said anything to anyone, fearing the violence would escalate. It was the first time Moore was at risk from a man pointing a gun, but not the last.
Decades later, a fellow hunter aimed his cocked rifle at her in the northern Saskatchewan bush. He told her he mistook her 5-foot-4 frame, draped in red, for a moose.
Guns are a constant in the lives of rural Canadian women — one reason many of them as are as committed to gun control and the gun registry as their urban sisters. As the third-reading vote on a Tory backbencher's private bill that would kill the registry draws near, members of a coalition of rural and urban women, shelter advocates and victims of violent crime are telling their stories. They want to counter the misinformation and political manoeuvring they contend obscure the real issue: safety.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...
Hmmm... what replies do you get?
Mostly....a bunch of uuhhs, several mumbles, and the always popular quote that’s rapidly turning into a broken record:
” well it’s Bush’s fault anyway”
Grr, I resemble that remark. I’ve faced down an armed home invader who had a crowbar. He ran like heck, and once everything was under control I called the cops and reported the attempted break in.
Blame Mark Steyn. He wrote the article. Congrats on chasing the intruder away.
Eh I have to agree with him. He’s right to call us out.
I must say, the Canadian guys I have met have been no pushovers. But then they have been from Alberta and British Columbia, which may be a different breed from your ordinary Ottowan, Toronton or Quebecois.
Yep, that’s where I’m from as well. It really depends on where you are and where they are from.
I guess it’s the same with the US too.
Amen. Now let's go kick some mime ass.
I gotta find a copy of Shakes the Clown.
I tried it but it was too small for my hand.
No, I’m still sitting on my handgun purchase permit (required in North Carolina) waiting for the opportunity to go shopping with no children.
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