The tyrants now taking over the U.S. may have a hard time getting around all these lovely new guns.
Yes, people often seem spineless and oblivious. Millions actually seem to welcome the police state (including, alas, millions who claim to be for limited government).
But deep down, people know. People know.
(Tip o’ hat to MTK for the link.)
YES, they do know!!! Raw numbers on all these guns buyers isn’t telling the true tale. Most are either being bought outright by woman or are being bought by men for their woman in my gun store and nation wide from what I’m being told. Michael Bane the gun writer/TV host has been saying that with so many woman coming over to the gun world the tipping point has been reached. There’s no stopping us. I’ve always thought giving women the vote was an awful idea just from seeing the squishy headed totalitarianism that informed most of the females in my family about how life should be conducted “FOR GREATER GOOD…”. But the change is noticeable. I found this article posted on my FaceBook this morning and have now seen it in no less than three places, to include the usually silly HuffPo. Reading the comments has been enlightening. Not to mention that I’ve yet to come across anyone, other than politicians like Alan West (good job Tea Party), who feel the Totalitarianism By Presidential Whim Act is anything other than what it is. It scares everyone.
God bless this woman. She has made good a man who would have gone on to victimize another woman if she hadn’t done the right thing. Read the comments and smile.
“911 Tells Mom ‘Do What You Have To Do’: Okla. Mom Sarah McKinley Kills Intruder Justin Martin”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/mom-kills-intruder_n_1183336.html
EN — Damned interesting perspective on women and guns. I hadn’t thought about that.
And as to the article about the Oklahoma mom — I agree it’s a heck of a story. So much so that I’ve already got a different account of it scheduled for the blog for tomorrow morning.
Claire, I’ve been meaning to ask you this for a while, but what do you see with woman and guns? Are woman you know receptive to the idea. Most of the woman I know “well” tend to be a little older than you, and they seem way different than younger woman on this issue. Another take by you and your readers would really interest me. Looking forward to your account.
I think they’re just twigging onto the fact that times are changing, and not necessarily for the better, that they’d better do something to protect the family.
On another note, about another Outlaw.
http://www.gizmag.com/ghost-rider-ghostrider-499-horsepower-turbo-hayabusa-busa-giveaway/21008/
I’ve already put my info down even though I don’t usually enter these kind of lotteries.
In the 911 tape, I understand that young woman completely. The first “gun” I ever bought was a Beretta peashooter, an air pistol in the 70s because I was pregnant at the time and felt vulnerable. But I knew it wouldn’t really do diddleysquat to protect me, so shortly after, I went into serious contemplation re guns.
I’m amazed at the 911 operator who gave that advice — that wouldn’t happen back East.
But the media are two-faced: they were restrained, almost approving, in their reporting; if the cops had arrested her, I think they would have been more judgmental about her action.
EN — Good question, though I personally have only a halfway good answer. The women I know all own guns and know how to shoot. Those who are mothers have also either gotten guns for their kids or okayed someone else doing it, and the kids have all been taught gun safety and shooting techniques. I’m talking women ranging from from 30s to 70s.
In fact, I’d say that the women I know have roughly the same attitude toward guns as the men I know; maybe they don’t love guns in the way some guys do, but they value and understand them.
But then, we’re also talking about rural areas … and people who hang out with me!
I’ll probably ask something about this on the blog one of these times. Thanks for thinking of it.
Thanks for your reply. Being from East Bay in the SF Bay Area might skew my views. That’s why I asked. I came to see the purpose of multicultic feminism as a chance for woman to make men weaker, not make womyn stronger. But younger woman, even squishy thinking Bay Area Liberals, seem to want to shoot. I’ve always believed that the world would right itself, and that stupid can’t last forever. But on the issue of guns and women, reality seemed so far away. That’s always the danger of “localism”. You tend to see what’s going on around you and not much else. What’s happening now is earth shaking, the proverbial game changer. Once a person excepts responsibility for their own lives they will demand it of others.
@EN “I’ve always thought giving women the vote was an awful idea just from seeing the squishy headed totalitarianism that informed most of the females in my family about how life should be conducted FOR GREATER GOOD…”.”
Prior to the last hundred years of women voting, men have been pursuing squishy headed totalitarianism for 5,000 years. Read back through the speeches promoting women’s suffrage for predictions of how mothers would make all war end, and so on. None of it happened. When women got the vote, nothing changed. As if mothers needed a “vote” to end war, while all the time they had the power to stab warmongering husbands as they slept.
“As if mothers needed a “vote” to end war, while all the time they had the power to stab warmongering husbands as they slept.”
Or denying sex might help end wars…
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lysistrata