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A eighteen year old single mother in Oklahoma faced her worst nightmare recently. Her husband had died on Christmas day and a pair of (alleged) burglars apparently thought she was an easy target (allegedly), trying to break into her home on New Years Eve. But instead she went into “Momma-Bear” mode and the intruders paid the price. ABC has the video:
New visitors might want to check out my BLOCKBUSTER saga where a convicted terrorist and perjurer sought to obtain my true name and address by subpoenaing Google and Comcast. You might want to start with the filing I sent to the court, here. It has been described by another blogger as “one of the most epic pantsings I have ever seen performed anywhere” so you might enjoy it. You can also use this link to keep abreast of the whole saga.
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A eighteen year old single mother in Oklahoma faced her worst nightmare recently. Her husband had died on Christmas day and a pair of (alleged) burglars apparently thought she was an easy target (allegedly), trying to break into her home on New Years Eve. But instead she went into “Momma-Bear” mode and the intruders paid the price. ABC has the video:
The sad thing is that she was worried enough that she might get in trouble that she felt the need to ask 911 for advice. And frankly they should have known the law enough to have told her that she would be just fine.
A while back I ruminated on the way that guns allowed disabled people to achieve a certain equality in a way that was quintessentially human:
And gun ownership by the handicapped also taps into another big philosophical belief I have about the handicapped. In a very real way, humanity is the disabled species. Think about it. Compared to other species, we are slow, weak, blind and deaf; we have little sense of smell, our teeth and “claws” are weak, etc. If left naked in the wild we would be easy supper for the other animals out there. And yet we dominate the planet for one simple reason: our brains. And those brains have allowed us to create tools that in turn makes up for our deficiencies. So we can’t run as fast as a cheetah, but we invented motor cars that allowed us to move even faster and for long periods of time. We can’t see like an eagle, so we invented the telescope and can see things no other creature can. Our brains haven’t just leveled the playing field between animal and man, but in fact gave us a critical advantage over them which is why we rule this planet and no longer have any natural predator (except ourselves).
And in no area has our brains been more critical in making up for our psychical deficiencies than in combat. Now we might suspect a few tough souls like Chuck Norris or Todd Palin** could take on a grizzly bear with their bare hands, but for most of us, if we don’t have a gun we are SOL (and from my understanding, even with a gun they are hard to kill). Our only option is to run.
So to tell a disabled person that they can’t use artificial help goes directly against the grain of what we have done as humans. For instance, I have difficulty writing by hand. But it only affects my ability to write by hand, so I buy a computer and I am rendered “normal.”
Likewise, Mr. Boyd has cerebral palsy. I have known people with that condition and it almost certainly impairs his ability to win a fistfight. I’m not saying he can’t do it, but it’s almost certainly harder. Now, the anti-gun approach would tell him tough and that he would just have to remain defenseless and hope that if someone attacks him that he cops get there in time. But the second amendment allows him to say, “screw that,” and defend his own life and safety as need be.
Likewise, this woman probably was not a physical match for the men who broke into her home, especially given that they had her outnumbered and had a knife to boot. But rather than hope the cops get there in time—indeed in the face of a dispatcher that couldn’t even tell her whether she could use deadly force or not—she said “screw that” and defended the life or her and her baby.
And good for her for doing so.
Via the Daily Caller.
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Sidebar: And my gosh, what a horrible holiday season this woman has been having. Here’s hoping things turn around for her.
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