In the aftermath of the crime in Colorado, the Old Media and left-wingers everywhere rush to claim that we need more gun control. In this climate it is instructive to remember what happened to Doctor Susan Gratia.
She was a legal concealed weapons carrier in Texas, but because she became fearful of being arrested for carrying because Democrat legislators at the time (1991) began to prosecute people for carrying their firearms, Dr. Gratia left her gun in her car instead of carrying it in her purse as she usually did. Then a gunman burst into a restaurant in which she and her parents were eating. She made it out. Her parents did not.
This cautionary tale MUST be remembered.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77_BzTO7X0E[/youtube]
via Stop The ACLU
This is what happens when people are allowed to carry guns legally:
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Was the guy in the second video shooting at a fleeing suspect. While concealed carry should definitely be allowed by law abiding citizens, there should be some intense training on how to handle your self in certain situations.
I had the pleasure of spending several hours with Dr. Gartia many years ago while photographing her for a Chiropractic magazine article (photography is a long time hobby of mine). Gotta love a lady with an autographed picture of G. Gordon Liddy on her desk!
Could have been fleeing, in some places, like text, “the use of deadly force is justified anytime physical force is justified” so to bring down fleeing armed robbers, I think the 70 year old guy has a good argument that he could not run them down or confront them physically. The only thing I see the guy did wrong, was not being able to drop them dead.
Very good video! I had forgotten her and her testimony.
@Jason:
You never been attacked before have you? Nor have you been to Gun Safety or hand to hand combat training before?
@Jason:
Training teaches you that when attacked, you return the attack with the maximum force available to you, and do not stop until your attacker is no longer able to harm you or those that you are protecting.
As long as the criminals still had their weapons, they were able to commit harm to others.
The gentleman did nothing wrong.
Very Powerful stuff. There are probably hundreds of incidents where responsible civilians who had a legal right to own and use a gun warded off a would be tragedy. As in the 2nd video…those two idiots were tripping over themselves trying to get out the door….rotflmao….they were real brazen asses until they met up with a 71 year old hero [with a gun] ….and I agree, too bad he didn’t drop them dead….
I knew there were gun laws on the books, I never knew there were 20,000 of them!!! And the Liberals do not think this is enough?
Funny how the Liberals want to Ban our 2nd amendment, Constitutional right, yet, want to contort and twist the Constitution to “FIT” their insane ideology….
The good doctor was correct when she said the 2nd amendment right for a citizen to bear arms
[and she wasn’t to gain any friends by saying so] is for the citizens to protect themselves from ‘you’ [our Government]…..
You go Girl!!
Old man – legally owned firearm.
Thugs – stolen firearm.
Sounds like a good idea to implement a gun ban on LEGALLY owned firearms from LAW ABIDING citizens.
Might as well put up signs and wear stickers saying, “rob me! I cant protect myself!”.
And what about the states and cities that routinely infringe the right to bear arms? The Constitution doesn’t say that our right will not be infringed by the federal government, only that this right shall not be infringed. Does this mean that states and cities can control the media? Can these entities limit (or eliminate) free speech? When Dearborn is majority muslim, can they make their death cult the official city religion?
Coming up on an election that pits a dyed in the wool Marxist against a liberal who has called himself a “progressive” and said he was “proud” of MA gun laws, these questions are not hypothetical. The backward laws of the 1930’s were indeed the nose, and now the camel’s 3/4 of the way into the tent.