Bearing Arms: Right now, so-called “safe storage” laws are all the rage in anti-gun states. I also kind of see why. When you know little about guns or using one in self-defense, you simply assume that it can be easily accessed should the need arise, but locking up a gun keeps it out of the “wrong” hands, be that burglar or child.
However, kids sometimes need to defend themselves too. While we have age limits on the sale of firearms, we don’t have age limits on defending your life. Nor should we.
Recently, a young woman may have proven just how wrongheaded safe storage laws actually are. She used a gun to protect herself and her sisters.
On Sunday, two men in a white sedan pulled up to a home in Blaine. One got out of the car and repeatedly tried to gain entry by trying to kick in the doors.
Inside the home were three teenage girls, who responded by calling 911. They were home alone at the time, with their father at work and their mother at the store.
At one point, the man who was trying to break in circled around to the backyard and was prepared to bust open a window with a shovel.
When this was about to happen, the man and his driver began to start arguing. During that argument, the youngest of the teenage girls in the home, only 14 years old, had found and loaded the 9mm pistol.
She reportedly fired in the general direction of the two men, scaring them off. read more
My children have been exposed to firearms their entire lives. Once they started paying attention, I took them to the range and introduced them to .22 single shot. Ruger Bearcats (which they have outgrown) and a Savage falling block single shot that they both learned to “sight” before moving up to M1s. I no longer maintain loaded weapons in my house since the horrifying canoe accident.
Oh! and by the way, blessed be this 14 year old and I hope she starts training.
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Grew up in the 60s and 70s in rural WI. Guns were often a subject of show and tell. Try that today- it’s our educational system that has been infiltrated with commie Marxists…
The hummingbirds carried off all of my muskets. Damndest thing. I forgot to feed the hummingbirds one day and left the window open. They took all my shit. I hated those old muskets anyway. They used to creep around the house, at night, and sniff things. Rather unsettling. Greasy butt prints on my jammies.
Next time, she needs to blow their heads clean off.
Grew up in the 50s. Was given a 410 for Christmas, she 8.
Back in the 70’s our local HS had gun safety classes after school.
Terrible that a 14 year old had to do this, but it would have been horrible if she had not been able to do it.
When I was stationed in England during the mid-70’s, people would ask me if I ever owned a gun. I simply said I was from Texas.
I was 23 when someone tried to break in while I was home alone, if I had had a gun it would’ve been so much safer.
I lucked out and spoke outloud subconsciously wondering who it was and the intruder ran off thinking that someone else was home with me.
Nothing scarier in this world than going outside later on and seeing all of the scratches from a lock pick.
What the race of the perps?
Were they Fredos?