By Don N.
A Mormon bishop used a samurai sword to come to the aid of a woman who was being attacked outside his home yesterday. Can you imagine the national media covering an incident in this same manner if a gun had been involved? A guy’s teenage son alerts him to a woman screaming for help. He quickly grabs the sword he keeps by his bed for home defense, goes outside and confronts the thug. The attacker backs off, runs away and the man with the sword pursues him. Now he’s a hero . . .
But imagine the story with one slight difference. A guy’s teenage son (OMG a white teenage male…that’s the spree killer demographic!) alerts him to a woman screaming for help. He quickly grabs the gun he keeps by his bed for home defense (You have a gun in your home with a child? Why do you need a gun? Don’t you keep it locked up? Are you paranoid or just irrationally afraid?)
The gun owner goes outside (What were you doing? Are you the town watch captain? Why didn’t you call the police and wait? Were you looking for a fight? You’ve just been waiting for a chance to shoot someone, haven’t you?). He confronts the thug (How did you know he was a mugger? Were you just presuming his guilt? Were you profiling? Do you think you’re some kind of a hero? You obviously watch too many cowboy movies! All you did was make the situation more dangerous. What if innocent people had been caught in the crossfire?).
The attacker backs off, runs away and the man with the gun pursues him (Hold on there Dirty Harry, that’s illegal…you aren’t the police! You had no business running after him! You have a duty to retreat!). Now the man who was a hero while holding a sword is instead held up as a another nut with a deadly weapon. There will probably be a rally against vigilantism in his town and a lawsuit against him for profiling the alleged mugger and recklessly endangering the community.
Why not home carry? You never have to worry about where your gun is.
Very nice, I’ve always liked the katana-style swords, but I’m still going for a decent shotgun/handgun first.
Still, seems like the guy knows how to use his weapon. 🙂
Hey RF, I saw a woman today looks like your ex-wife based on the pics you have occasionally posted. She and her husband own a gun store in the Portland area.
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I saw this this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America and thought the same…. damn… thought
I don’t know about the Eagles but I can shoot my M4 about as fast as my 9mm competition gun; splits at .17 sec. It has been eating everything including the low recoil rounds.
I have the same experience. And I can shoot heavy loads (1 3/8 oz high dram equivalent buck) without the slightest pain.
I’m surprised that he didn’t use a firearm, considering the huge numbers of firearm owners in Utah.
There will always be violence. A gun allows you to choose whether you want to have a fighting chance.
It’s terribly unfortunate that history doesn’t record the final thoughts of gun-banners, who realized their awful folly in the final seconds of their lives!
Sad that the leftists have created a nation where coming to someone else’s aid leaves one open to legal and media butchering. At least there’s some poetic justice, where good people may now be too wary to come to a leftist’s aid. Not that I would come to their aid anyway if I knew they were a leftist. I’d do exactly what they’d want: call their beloved police and wait fifteen minutes for them to get there, eating some popcorn as I watch.
Why would you want to choke down a beer with that horse’s @ss? You sit down with dogs, you rise up with fleas. And I’m not talking about the pooch he’s holding.
Shoot Ralph, you are hosting the beer bash. Didn’t they tell you?
I have a bat signal on my roof for home defense and its wired to a clapper to turn it on and off.
You have no idea how strongly this resonates with arguments I’ve had with people about DGU. Every counter and rebuttal you present as if thrown up by them is spot on.
Somebody breaks into my house, I don’t care if they’re armed or not. I’m not risking my life or the life of those under my care to find out. He gets shot and then the cops and lawyers can sort it out. That’s for an unknown home invader.
If I’m in a lockdown scenario cause the mad bombers/cop killers are on the loose and someone crashes into my home I would go nuclear if that option was open to me.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Tim_McLean
I’m sure it was just a .9mm, perfectly harmless.
I’m looking at the photo on this page and thinking about what I could have done from that window.
Laws against the ownership of firearms do nothing other than provide an incentive for those who wish to acquire and others to provide said items illegally, as it creates an immediate market demand. The result being, a push for more laws against the ownership of firearms. That vicious circle was first demonstrated with the banning of alcohol, which we all know how well that experiment worked out.
I wear a Fedora hat daily and I want to kick this loon’s ass for wearing a classic backwards.
I got that mark shooting like this.
I’d have to say if something like this happened in my town.. It would scare the crap outta me. Especially if they ordered me out of my home yelling and screaming AT ME like I was the criminal. That video of the police yelling at that guy to keep his hands up and physically putting their hands on him was really disturbing!
Ummm…. what?
This was my kids’ MOST REQUESTED ‘bedtime story’ for YEARS (Daddy has to read it ‘with the voices’): http://wearethevoicesinyourhead.com/?p=300 . [Am still looking for the original author… anyone? Beuller?]