I’m curious as to why this incident is getting so much play in the media. I read stories about armed citizens killing POS criminals all the time on FR. Why does this particular incident grab so many people?
Also, this author’s vernacular writing style is really obnoxious.
Thank you. I was about to say the same thing. Great girl, though.
“... I’m curious as to why this incident is getting so much play in the media”.
I have wondered that myself. I figure this incident has all the “drama” of a made for t.v. movie. Young, beautiful widow.... three month old infant, living alone in an isolated area and two ruffian, burly males. IMHO, this story has captured people’s interest because they know if she wasn’t armed... this incident would more than likely turned out horrible for the woman and her child.
I think one reason it is getting so much play is the race of the dirtbags. No one is coming forward to say they were misunderstood yutes. Reporters don’t have to worry about getting certain people upset.
Just off the top of my head, I recall two errors as I quickly read over this: They referred to her baby, Justin, as being a 3 yr. old, and they quoted her as saying “Get a dispatcher out here quickly” not “get a dispatch out here quickly”, as it showed from the tape. Either these errors were just sloppy writing/editing or they were trying to subtly make her out to be questionable.
Doug Giles is very pro 2nd amendments rights!!! Are you against those?
It has sellable drama—her husband died on Christmas day of cancer and, like a prairie wife with wolves at the door, she grabs the shotgun to protect her baby. They can sell that by attempting to jerk a few tears.
What I find interesting is how unsympathetic to this cause the young lady is. Listening to her you don't feel sorry for her since she doesn't act like a pathetic victim. I hope she and her baby will now have a blessed life.
***I’m curious as to why this incident is getting so much play in the media.***
The media went on an anti-gun tirade back in 1963 when Kennedy got shot. From that day, we saw lots of anti-gun newspaper articles and anti-gun themes were worked into all TV shows, even the western and detective and comedies had their anti-gun lines. Some western movies of the early 1970s had anti-gun themes.
Any good use of a gun was played down or turned into a “vigilante” discussion.
When an armed civilian helped a policeman stop the Texas Tower shooter, his role was downplayed When a TV movie was made of it, the writers managed to sneak in a very anti-gun line, and, at the end of the movie, a voice over advertizement for another show was used to cover up a statement that the shooter had a brain tumor which may or may not caused his rampage.
Why is it that I remember all these details after 41 years when the TV movie was broadcast?
And don’t get me started on the only Archie Bunker, or Heck (Richard Boone) Ramsey, or Dennis Weaver spouting anti-gun lines.
It was hoped by politicians that all handguns would be permanently banned by 1979.
Because it was a young single woman (father of her child recently died I think, don’t know if they were married).
And it doesn’t fit the narrative, so she will be vilified.