This may have been posted, hopefully not. I don’t get much time on the net now that my platoon is at a new site. Well here it is.
http://news.yahoo.com/sheriff-tells-women-guns-ward-off-attacks-220353729.html
What is everyone’s opinion on the sheriff’s remarks? The article also references the Brady Campaign and a study that says that you are 4.5 times as likely to get shot while carrying a gun. I wonder what fuzzy math they used.
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The Bradys are well known for making up stats or using stats for one thing and labeling it as a stat for another like including suicides and self defense/LEO shootings in their “murder” numbers. Also all the juvenile gang bangers that get killed count for their “children” stats. You can spin stats and relabel them to get the desired effect. They live under the guise of a utopian wonderland with the false premise that if guns were all gone today, every single one of them, then no one would ever get hurt again. People have been killing each other for thousands of years with whatever weapons they could come up with.
As to the Sheriff’s comments its good to see a public official encouraging people to be proactive and get themselves a means of self defense. The world isn’t always a peachy place.
Of course he does work in SPARTANburg…:laugh:
Although I don’t get what it is with every one and that “judge” thing. Why couldn’t he have just said “a good quality handgun in a proven effective caliber”?
Ah well.
Also I’d just love to know how they figured out you’re 4.5 times more likely to get shot when carrying. I think maybe they got it backwards- the perp is 4.5 times likelier to get shot.
Apparently they haven’t seen the new Glock commercial…
I challenge anyone on this board to read the Brady Campaign website and not have an anyrism. It cant be done.
Typical ‘victim mentality’ here:
“He’s blaming the victim,” said Melonea Marek, executive director of People Against Rape, a nonprofit rape crisis center in North Charleston. “There’s not a guarantee that a gun was going to stop that guy from hurting her.”
How is suggesting that women obtain the tools and the training necessary to use those tools “blaming the victim”? And since when can anything guarantee one’s safety from an attacker?
I bet if she could come up with a guaranteed way “to stop that guy from hurting her”, she wouldn’t be executive director of a non-profit organization. Unfortunately, there is no such guarantee.
Some blowhard was just on Fox saying should women really start preparing for vigilante justice?
Are you serious, it’s self defense. Vigilante justice is when my wife comes home raped and I go looking for who raped her :mad:
If I had any way to track down my fiancée’s rapist. I’d do it.
Different topic though. I won’t derail.
we have some more case of the stupids on MSNBC too:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/11/01/msnbc_host_why_should_people_have_guns_when_we_have_cops
However, unsurprisingly MSNBC fill-in host Craig Melvin seems to be more worried about the fate of potential rapists, rather than the safety of women. During an interview with Sheriff Wright today, Melvin suggested law enforcement should be the only necessary protection for women and society against criminals. At the beginning of the interview, Melvin asked:
Sheriff, if law enforcement is charged with protecting the public, then, then, then why should that not be sufficient? Why should folks have to go out and get guns and arm themselves if we’ve got cops?
To which Wright responded:
We can’t be everywhere, and we are a fool if we tell everybody that we can take care of all of our problems.
Later in the interview Melvin has the audacity to suggest a woman defending herself against rape is “implying guilt rather than innocence.”
Melvin: If women are shooting potential attackers, aren’t they presuming guilt before innocence? What if a woman kills an attacker? Isn’t that opening another whole legal can of worms?
Sheriff Wright: Well, it’s easy to fix that. Just don’t attack a woman… I know that this is controversial, but I do believe that people who believe in the Second Amendment and believe that they should arm themselves have a right to do so, as long as they’re trained properly.
:rolleyes:
I’d love to have a 12 gauge judge LOL.