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Liberals claim to want freedom, so long as your beliefs are the same as theirs…

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Glamour Magazine Editor Says Woman’s Desire for Self Defense “Strange” – Katie Pavlich.

I don’t read Glamour.  My wife doesn’t either, thankfully.  But, I imagine there are a lot of women who do and who also happen to be members of the Independent Women’s Forum.  Well, it seems Glamour magazine only want’s ladies to be concerned with abortion, pop-culture, and fashion.

What am I talking about?  Well it seems that the communications director for the Independent Women’s Forum sent Senior Fellow Anna Rittgets’ following statement to the editor of Glamour Magazine:

I am passionate about the 2nd Amendment, particularly because I’m a mother. I’m a thirty-something year old woman with a 3 year old and a nursing newborn. Without my concealed weapon, I wouldn’t be able to protect myself against an assailant that seeks to do me or my family harm.

Five bullets fired from a .38 revolver weren’t enough for a Georgia mother of two to stop one intruder last week in an unexpected home invasion–what if there had been more intruders?

It often takes several shots to stop one attacker. If the maximum magazine capacity is 10 (or if all semiautomatic handguns are banned, but 6 shot revolvers remain), and a woman in danger has to stop and reload her weapon while trying to protect her children (who are likely hysterical at this point), it gives the bad guy an opportunity to react–potentially fatally.

Laws limiting magazine capacity and availability of semiautomatic handguns will directly impact women, who use these weapons for self-defense inside and outside the home. Any executive action by President Obama to restrict guns will limit a women’s capability to fight back against attackers and protect herself and her family.

The bottom line is that guns are used for lawful self-defense every day. Sadly, they also used for illegal violence every day. But enacting laws that further restrict or ban law-abiding citizens’ access to firearms does nothing to address violent crime. It merely disarms the good guys.

To which, the editor, Lauren Lannotii responded, “Please unsubscribe me to your strange, sensationalizing polemics. Thank you.” It seems that Glamour magazine, which claims to want to “empower” women, would rather they simply sit back and try to enjoy whatever harm befalls them.
-Gary

 

Road rage ends in fatal shooting in NW Harris County – Houston Chronicle

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Road rage ends in fatal shooting in NW Harris County – Houston Chronicle.

Details are still sketchy at best but, the shooter is CHL holder and she is claiming self-defense.  Reports are, the decedent (don’t know that he’s a victim yet) was banging on the shooter’s, driver-side window in a manner that caused her to believe she was in imminent danger. At first glance, that might justify her actions.  However, there are also reports of this being a case of shooter allegedly being cut off by the decedent and then zooming around said decedent and slamming on her brakes to cause the accident that lead to the confrontation.  When it’s a situation of your own making and one that involves criminal or reckless behavior, it can be harder to argue that you were an innocent victim in your use of force.

-Gary

The latest update on this case supports self-defense. Crystal Scott pulled into a gas station behind the driver of a pickup with whom she’d had a collision.  That pickup driver ran toward Ms. Scott’s vehicle and began beating on her car.  When the man started trying to open the door, Ms. Scott believed the man was about to gain entry to the car and assault her. As a result, Ms.Scott fired through her window to stop the driver from assaulting her. She then called 911 and waited for police to arrive.  The driver was DRT (dead right there), having been shot twice in the chest.

-GM

Typical Left-leaning Local Media Slant on Castle Doctrine

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During Sunday’s show (July 1), we mentioned an article by the Houston Chronicle discussing an apparent increase in the number of justified homicides in Texas.  That article can be found here (http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Killings-deemed-justified-are-on-the-rise-in-Texas-3676412.php).

As is typical of the media, they sensationalize the facts and the “expert” opinions they cite are themselves, biased to the left.  Here’s the real deal, in plain English.  The Texas Legislature did not and never has intended to give anyone carte blanche to kill at will.  The only person in Texas at any given time who has the “right” to kill another person is an executioner acting on a signed death warrant from the court.  Everyone else had better be prepared to have their actions reviewed.  If you read the law, it consistently requires that one’s actions be “reasonable.”  Believe it or not; you, as the actor in any given case, don’t get to decide what is and isn’t reasonable.  What is reasonable is decided, at the very least, by a local magistrate or grand jury based on evidence reported to them by the investigating officers.  If you are true billed and formally indicted, a jury of your peers will be tasked with deciding if your actions are reasonable.

As we’ve recently seen in the Raul Rodriguez case, “Stand Your Ground” is NOT an automatic get out of jail free card to shoot anyone, anywhere you see fit.  It’s true, you no longer have a “duty to retreat” but, that change assumes you didn’t go looking for a conflict or otherwise end up in a situation of your own making.  The intent was to clarify one’s right to defend himself if he happened to find himself being attacked away from home.  For example, how does one “safely” retreat if you’re at your office or place of business rather than your home when faced with a deadly threat?  Or if you’re simply out making that late evening, ice cream and pickles, run for a mother to be when you’re accosted in the parking lot?  A lot of folks will say run back to the store but, running isn’t necessarily an option for an elderly person or anyone with a disability let alone those of us lacking a “successful lifestyle body” (i.e. fat boys).

We’re suppose to AVOID, not seek, confrontations….

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http://www.chron.com/news/article/Texas-jury-convicts-man-in-stand-your-ground-case-3629425.php

Raul Rodriguez went against everything concealed handgun license applicants are told about avoiding unnecessary confrontations.  Folks, it’s not enough to read the “Cliff Notes” version of the class regarding non-violent dispute resolution and use of force. Parroting cute little buzzwords on camera or the 911 tape while being an idiot and seeking a fight rather than avoiding one just provides admissible evidence of you being an idiot.

-Gary

 

 

Homeowner arrested for firing warning shot – Houston weather, traffic, news | FOX 26 | MyFoxHouston

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Homeowner arrested for firing warning shot – Houston weather, traffic, news | FOX 26 | MyFoxHouston. A listener asked us about this on Facebook today.  So, I thought I’d post my answer…

“On the warning shot arrest, I can see both sides of that incident and frankly, I think the woman from Crime Stoppers was talking out of her butt. She was right however, when she said that standards of reasonableness are (or should be) applied when police believe an offense has occurred. I quite honestly think the police might have been right on this one based on their explanation that the homeowner did not express a belief he was in immediate danger of bodily harm when he discharged that round.

One must keep in mind that simply displaying a firearm in public, or in front of another person, qualifies as aggravated assault (we don’t have a “brandishing” law in Texas). So the rule of thumb is that if you’re not justified in shooting someone, you aren’t often justified in pointing a gun at them either. At the very least, you must be justified in using force. In this case, the homeowner could argue he was justified in using force (but not deadly force) to prevent a burglary or theft in the nighttime but, discharging the firearm is in fact deadly force (even though he fired into ground) and that’s where he steps beyond the standards of reasonableness applied by the investigating officers.”

– Gary