WHAT snake??
Posted on 07/07/2004 7:49:56 AM PDT by jdege
By BILL BASKERVILL
Associated Press Writer
Published July 6, 2004
RICHMOND, Va. -- Seven-year-old Kayla Williamson was angry when she found a big black snake stealing eggs from the family's hen house.
So she shot and killed it.
[...]
"He was six feet long and two inches," said Kayla. "My dad dragged him out on a stick and then I shot it."
"I was kinda scared of the snake but when my dad got him out I wasn't," she said. "After I shot him, I wasn't really scared."
[...]
"It was fun," said Kayla, who enters second grade in September. "He gave me the gun and I shot it."
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"After I shot him, I wasn't really scared."
She'll find the same thing is true, dealing with other sorts of snakes, ten years from now.
bang!
good shootin' sweetie!
Just wait until PETA hears about this.
Richmond Freeper Ping!
Now that's what I call effective gun control - hitting what you aim for!
Good for dad to help her learn about the proper purpose of guns.
And good for daughter for a lesson leaned.
My concern- in some leftist states - the killing of the snake is technically illegal...
Pissin' off PETA.
I better get my girls started soon.
a first class dad - he deserves a high five for letting this kid face her fears. Just worried though that the gun wasnt too powerful for her little grip
That's funny and awesome!
Reminds me of when I was a kid - we had this birdhouse that a family of bluebirds had taken up residence in. One day we came home to find a six foot long blacksnake sleeping in the birdhouse, after eating the mother and baby birds. My mom was so angry, she promptly went and got her .22 LR with scope and started peppering that snake with round after round. A couple hours later, she was still going at it.
"That snake ate my baby birds!"
:-)
Only leftists would think of this as news. Good shooting, little girl.
He refused to show his hands, so the shooting was justified.
Hmmmm.
...Williamson said Kayla has been spent countless hours shooting, starting when she was about 4. Last year, Williamson took then-6-year-old Kayla to a deer stand in the woods... Kayla took aim with a high-powered, bolt-action rifle. "She put a perfect shot on it probably at about 50 yards," said her father.
Terrific!
Typical right wingers all of you!
If this snake were WHITE, this little girl would be in jail so fast it would make your head spin! /sarcasm
"How can you "gun down" a snake; isn't it already completely on the ground anyhow?"
The snake is probably the one who appreciates the slight difference........
Feinswine, Schumer and the Brady Bunch will have a hissy fit when they hear about this.
Maybe they'll even try and have this dad charged with child abuse.
Not to mention the reaction from the PETArds.
No not an Al Sharpton Jesse Jackson Cynthia McKinney site either....these are useful snakes
They constrict and eat Rats....and in the case of the aforemention are both snakes and rats imo
The Differential Theory of US Armed Forces Snake Model: upon encountering a snake in the Area of Operations (AO)
1. Infantry: Snake smells them, leaves area.
2. Airborne: Lands on and kills the snake.
3. Armor: Runs over snake, laughs, and looks for more snakes.
4. Aviation: Has Global Positioning Satellite coordinates to snake. Can't find snake. Returns to base for refuel, crew rest and manicure.
5. Ranger: Plays with snake, then eats it.
6. Field Artillery: Kills snake with massive Time On Target barrage with three Forward Artillery Brigades in support. Kills several hundred civilians as unavoidable collateral damage. Mission is considered a success and all participants (i.e., cooks, mechanics and clerks) are awarded Silver Stars.
7. Special Forces: Makes contact with snake, ignores all State Department directives and Theater Commander Rules of Engagement by building rapport with snake and winning its heart and mind. Trains it to kill other snakes. Files enormous travel settlement upon return.
8. Combat Engineer: Studies snake. Prepares in-depth doctrinal thesis in obscure 5 series Field Manual about how to defeat snake using counter-mobility assets. Complains that maneuver forces don't understand how to properly conduct doctrinal counter-snake ops.
9. Navy SEAL: Expends all ammunition and calls for naval gunfire support in failed attempt to kill snake. Snake bites SEAL and retreats to safety. Hollywood makes fantasy film in which SEALS kill Muslim extremist snakes.
10. Navy: Fires off 50 cruise missiles from various types of ships, kills snake and makes presentation to Senate Appropriations Committee on how Naval forces are the most cost-effective means of anti-snake force projection.
11. Marine: Kills snake by accident while looking for souvenirs. Local civilians demand removal of all US forces from Area of Operations.
12. Marine Recon: Follows snake, gets lost.
13. Combat Controllers: Guides snake elsewhere.
14. Para-Rescue Jumper: Wounds snake in initial encounter, then works feverishly to save snake's life.
15. Quartermaster: (NOTICE: Your anti-snake equipment is on backorder.)
16. C-17 Transport pilot: Receives call for anti-snake equipment, delivers two weeks after due date.
17. F-15 pilot: Mis-identifies snake as enemy Mil-24 Hind helicopter and engages with missiles. Crew chief paints snake kill on aircraft.
18. F-16 pilot: Finds snake, drops two CBU-87 cluster bombs, and misses snake target, but get direct hit on Embassy 100 KM East of snake due to weather (Too Hot also Too Cold, Was Clear but too overcast, Too dry with Rain, Unlimited ceiling with low cloud cover etc.) Claims that purchasing multi-million dollar, high-tech snake-killing device will enable it in the future to kill all snakes and achieve a revolution in military affairs.
19. AH-64 Apache pilot: Unable to locate snake, snakes don't show well on infra-red. Infrared only operable in desert AO's without power lines or SAM's.
20. UH-60 Blackhawk pilot: Finds snake on fourth pass after snake builds bonfire, pops smoke, lays out VS 17 to mark Landing Zone. Rotor wash blows snake into fire.
21. B-52 pilot: Pulls ARCLIGHT mission on snake, kills snake and every other living thing within two miles of target.
22. MinuteMan Missile crew: Lays in target coordinates to snake in 20 seconds, but can't receive authorization from National Command Authority to use nuclear weapons.
23. Intelligence officer: Snake? What snake? Only four of 35 indicators of snake activity are currently active. We assess the potential for snake activity as LOW.
24. Judge Advocate General (JAG): Snake declines to bite, citing grounds of professional courtesy.
25. Signal: Tries to communicate with snake...fail repeated attempts. Complains that the snake did not have the correct fill or did not know how to work equipment a child could operate. Signal Officer informs the commander that he could easily communicate with the snake using just his voice. Commander insists that he NEEDS to video-conference with the snake, with real-time streaming positional and logistical data on the snake displayed on video screens to either side. Gives Signal Corps $5 Billion to make this happen. SigOps abuses the 2 smart people in the corps to make it happen, while everybody else stands around, bitches, and takes credit. In the end, General Dynamics and several sub-contractors make a few billion dollars, the 2 smart people get out and go to work for them, and the commander gets what he asked for only in fiber-optic based simulations. The snake is forgotten.
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