Posted on 07/31/2007 4:11:14 PM PDT by DeFault User
1 less gun for grandkids to worry about DANNYE ROMINE POWELL "Maybe we should buy a gun," I told my husband.
As I waited for him to answer, I listened to the birds chirping. I looked toward the sky, hoping for rain.
"No, we shouldn't," he said finally.
"Listen to this," I said, picking up Sunday's paper. I read aloud from the front-page story, "Forced to Kill," about four Charlotte people who had each shot someone trying to protect themselves.
The killings were legal. Necessary. The police said so.
I could slip instantly into the shoes of one south Charlotte man, who woke to the sound of the doorbell seven years ago. When he heard loud banging, he grabbed a revolver and ran downstairs.
A young man had thrown an iron patio chair against the window, shattering the glass. The older man fired two safety shots. When the young man swung the chair again, the older man aimed a third time and fired, killing the intruder.
I could imagine us in the exact situation -- without a gun -- defenseless.
Not in my house
"Can't you see that happening to us?" I said."Sure, I can," my husband said. "But we have an alarm system. And we're not getting a gun."
"Your reason?"
"Two reasons," he said. "Our granddaughters."
That stopped me cold.
About 200 people in the United States kill someone each year in self-defense.
But how many die each year -- innocently -- from guns?
Let me tell you.
In the 10 years ending in 2006, 486 children under age 18 in North Carolina, alone, died from gun-related injuries.
Amazing the figure is that low, considering that 82,000 kids in this state are exposed each year to unsafely stored firearms.
Thanks to my husband's unruffled thinking, our grandchildren won't be among them -- not in our house.
Unforgettable near miss
Our conversation triggered a memory, one I usually manage to tamp down.
I was 9 years old, visiting a neighbor a year or so older, whose father had been a colonel in World War II.
Her mother ran out to the grocery store, leaving us alone for about half an hour.
As soon as she'd pulled away, my friend unearthed her father's gun -- a relic from the war -- ornate, as I recall. Official-looking, heavy.
It's not loaded, she said, pointing the gun at me.
We sat there, each of us cross-legged in our chair, about eight feet apart. She tried to squeeze the trigger.
I felt no fear. She'd said it wasn't loaded. Why doubt her?
She squeezed and squeezed, still pointing. The trigger didn't budge. When she heard her mother in the driveway, she ran to put the gun back.
My friend called the next day, tearful. Her father had found her out, and spanked her. The gun, she whispered, had been loaded after all.
I sat speechless, the phone to my ear.
She was lucky. I was luckier.
In our house, we'll remain unarmed.
Defenseless is better than discovering someone we love dead.
IN MY OPINION Dannye Romine Powell
This whole post is typical liberal Horse&^%$. This conversation never took place. It is the concoction of this liberal moron who dreamed it up one day at Barnes and Noble over a latte.
I don't know but Charlotte has 38 homicides so far this year, up considerably from the previous year. However, as she mentions in the article, more citizens are fighting back and blowing the robbers away.
I bet the idiot is working day and night to save her from global warming!
I grew up in a very small town in WV. All of the firearms in our house were standing in a bedroom corner with ammunition right next to them. My brothers and I have never shot or even pointed a gun at each other. We all knew about the guns, we all hunted.
I have firearms in my house. My sons know where they are. They, also, know how to use them, but they know they are not to touch any of the weapons without Mom or Dad, right there. That takes away the curiousness about them.
"In the 10 years ending in 2006, 486 children under age 18 in North Carolina, alone, died from gun-related injuries."
That's about 50 'children' under the age of 18 killed by 'gun related injuries.' 'Gun related injuries' probably doesn't exclude murder, suicide or instances of self defense.
In 2004 the CDC records 5 accidental deaths due to gun shot wounds for ages 0-18.
Lonesome
A 12 gauge Remington Wingmaster makes a distictive sound as I jack a round in to the chamber coming down the hallway.
That sure will hurt some thugs ears as the murder him and rape his wife.
By the way, I wonder how many of the "children" under 18 were shot while breaking into someone's house.
This is only for a 5 year period...
http://webapp.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker.exe
| Number of Deaths |
Population*** | Crude Rate |
Age-Adjusted Rate** |
| 1,694 | 13,521,482 | 12.53 | 12.78 |
Liberals, baaaaah!
Ask them to display a sign in their yard that states “Gun Free Home”
See if they will do it.
Right.
What’s the age-range for Gang Bangers?
Last I checked it was 13 - 19.
So how many of these lil’ angels died either from inter-gang conflicts or as a result of their own criminal behavior (i.e., Home Invasion)?
Kinda like an alcohol related accident where there was booze,beer,wine present. Doesn't matter if the person or persons involved were actually inebriated, it is (or can be) listed as an alcohol related accident.
There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
"Defenseless is better than discovering someone we love dead."
She's so smart, she's stupid.
Oh hell. Who cares. It's her life.
She should stick to moonbat poetry, this is a sample of her work.
The Chair Where I Sat Reading
While My Parents Made Love
was not a big chair.
I could haul it all over
the house. Usually
I dragged it to the back
screened porch where I sat
trying to make sense
of words, sounding them out,
their wildness crowding
my mouth as I practiced
each knobby line
again and again
until I had it down smooth
as a kiss, rocking
all the while, licking
my lips as if I were grown.
Page after page
like this until at last
I was lifted, lifted
out of my small chair.
Typical. First start talking about the “innocent children” and then throw in a statistic about how many “children” were killed with guns. Don’t tell people that every year fewer children are accidentally killed with guns than die from bicycle accidents. Just make them afraid of guns.
and most of those children were shot because of dumb parents who...
...were too lazy, cowardly or stupid to teach their children how to respect and safely handle firearms.
There. Fixed it for ya.
;-)
The game here is to show the biggest number for my argument, and the smallest number for your argument. Readers who don’t know how to think critically (read Democrats) are swayed by such nonsense.
Takes guts to tell the World that your house isn’t defended. Not very good sense. (another Democrat trait).
Oh man! Now my computer is full of cooties. Hundreds of years from now an archaeologist will dig this POS up and think I wrote that.
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