Easy targets
When Margaret Johnson said hello to the ex-con as she wheelchaired out of her apartment building, the guy probably thought she was an easy target. It was New York City. What could she do? So he grabbed her necklace and tried to rip it off of her.
Turns out Mrs. Johnson (a) used to be a government employee, (b) is an award-winning marksman, and (c) was on the way to the range for practice. This meant that, unlike most City residents, she not only owned a firearm, and she not only had one with her, but she apparently had a license to carry one loaded. She didn’t have to transport it to the range in a locked container.
Margaret survived the attack unharmed; her attacker is most likely in jail again after having left the hospital. With luck like his he should consider more mundane work.
Hat tip to America’s 1st Freedom.
- Sick over shot
- “Actually I feel sick about the whole thing,” she said. “Picking on a handicapped woman is about as low as you can go. I feel sorry for him, but it was a choice he made.”
- A Case For Guns
- “Maybe instead of going after the gun manufacturers, our mayor should be offering self-defense classes or gun permits and firearms training to battered women before they become death statistics?”
- America’s 1st Freedom
- “America’s 1st Freedom is the NRA’s pure news magazine especially for our membership. Its mission is to deliver professional, compelling, accurate, timely and hard-hitting journalism that tells the truth about the threats to our Second Amendment rights.”
More self-defense
- Why don’t gun owners trust the left?
- If you have a Democrat in the house, you are eight hundred times more likely to die from statistical misrepresentation. Forty-three times more likely? Three times more likely? Would you believe smug mathematical innumeracy?
- Has welfare failed us?
- Has welfare failed us, or have we overwhelmed the welfare system through other policies that encourage dependance and discourage economic development?
- McCain’s success is not surprising
- Is McCain’s success really a surprise given the available candidates? I don’t think so. Ditto for Huckabee. Their success may be simply that voters are still paying attention to the issues. Objectively speaking, McCain is a stronger conservative candidate than Giuliani and Romney.
- ACLU supports the right to bear arms?
- Does the ACLU now support the right to own and carry weapons, or does it think that this power has been stripped from the military and police?
- New Jersey bans everything
- I’ve got your gun show loophole right here: New Jersey has implemented a de facto ban on gambling and driving, and anything else that requires a license or a registration, such as firearms purchases.
- 10 more pages with the topic self-defense, and other related pages
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