RE: All Hail the Second Amendment
April 30, 2014 at 6:11 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2014 at 6:13 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 28, 2014 at 7:17 pm)Brakeman Wrote: My own personal experience..
When I was 14 I stopped a very violent rape in progress with a rifle. The attacker was beating the girl in the grass on my property. He was a huge man who was a championship boxer (He was a n'er do well neighbor a few houses down the road). Without the rifle I would have had no chance whatsoever of stopping him. After pummeling her in the face several times, he pulled down her pants and was taking his off when I fired into the ground about 5 feet in front of him and to the side.
If he had decided to charge me I would have killed him, I'm quite sure. He was wise not to risk it. Another neighbor, and elderly man, heard the shot and came out with a pistol while his wife called the police. The police showed up in 20 minutes or so. He was arrested and sent to prison. While simply calling the cops would have caught the guy, as I recognized him, it wouldn't have saved the girl from a mentally scarring rape nor saved her from additional horrendous blows to her head.
So how does that fit with the "more restrictions crowd?"
So we are evaluating policy using anecdotes now?
(April 24, 2014 at 8:40 am)Bad Writer Wrote:(April 24, 2014 at 5:46 am)Cato Wrote: Guns and alcohol. Can't imagine anything wrong with that cocktail.
Allowing guns in bars has always seemed like a bad idea to me. If there's a solid reason to allow this, does anyone here know it?
It weeds out those stupid enough to go into a bar that allows guns.