Ronald Deshawn Rice and Ryan Dwight Ross thought it would be a cakewalk to break into Travis Morrow’s house. After all, Mr. Rice had a gun, a surefire reputation enhancer which might also increase his sexual attraction with the gender of his choice. (This being a progressive, tolerant media outlet.)
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I always love these 'fatal error in the victim selection process' stories! Dumb criminals are so amusing.
The attempt at heavy sarcasm kinda ruins your attempt to make a point. In this case the intended victim didn't need a gun and was successfully able to defend himself without one. One point for effort, minus two points for managing to shoot your argument in the foot (or hand perhaps?) by suggesting there really wasn't a need for one in this case anyway.
J: You are looking for a point which doesn't exist in this article. The point was that the attack didn't go the way the anti-rights proponents say it should, and it was their fiction which was highlighted here. In fact, the gun did come in handy...for the victims. After being shot in the hand came the turning point in this incident. But I don't write about hardware, I right about the civil right of self-defense. To hypothesize after the fact as to whether a defensive gun would be useful or not? We have more pressing issues to address our energy to.
J, a gun was instrumental in saving the intended victim. The fact that it was brought by the intentional victimizer doesn't change that. In a struggle of that kind, the results could go either way. Much better to have your own gun and not have to hope you can cover the ground to the would be shooter and then be able to overpower him.
Your assertion is asinine. It was also a diversion, wasn't it? As often as we have been told by anti-civil rights activists that a bad guy will take your gun through some super-power ninja bad guy voodoo and kill you with it, kind of reveals itself to not exactly honest. Much like yourself.
Howard, I apologize for the nasty attitude of my comment towards J. I apologize to you, because I know you would rather not have hot-blooded rhetoric here.
I do not apologize to J. I hate dissemblers and it is time someone called them on it. Once one starts to lie, he has lost all claim to courtesy.
The gun is not the whole story here, by any means. Self defense involves a great deal more than guns, no matter who's hands they are in to start with.
I wonder if Mr. Morrow had his doors locked? How did Rice and Ross get in? Locked doors are a first line of self defense, and probably stop an attack/invasion countless (and unknowable) times. Why won't people take that single, simple measure - without cost or real inconvenience even??? Do they leave the keys in their car? Do they leave their wallet, etc. out on the front sidewalk? Why not? If they can't be bothered to lock their doors - and windows too if they are vulnerable - they might as well.
Guns are a last resort, to deal with criminals who are not deterred by any of the other measures that can so easily be taken. And, even then, most of the time if the intended victim HAS a gun - and knows how to use it - the criminal is happy to run away instead of press the attack. Therefore, in most cases of armed self defense, no shots are fired.
We don't hear about most of them. That's too bad.
This story is funny in a way, but it could have been tragic if Rice had not been so stupid. And, hopefully, Morrow will be better prepared to defend himself and the lady if it should ever happen again. The next one might not be such a clown.
Straight Arrow: Actually, you brought up an excellent point. I didn't see that "J" was really trying to twist this around to 'prove' that defenders don't need guns. I did not find your comments towards "J" to be offensive. You pointed out that the behavior of diverting people from the truth to be assinine. Calling people on their behavior is being a straight arrow. Calling them names, which you did not do, becomes its own distraction from the point a person tries to make. As always, your comments are welcome.
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