Old, sick and no voice
Posted by MK on April 8, 2008
FOX News - Authorities in Stafford County, Va., say two pregnant women were attacked during a home invasion in Stafford before midnight Friday. Police say three people knocked on the door and forced their way inside when someone opened the door. Authorities say two of the intruders brandished guns while the third carried a machete. The intruders used pepper spray on a pregnant woman and punched her, then locked the woman, a 4-year-old and a 2-year-old in a bathroom. In the back of the house, police say the intruders found two more residents and one, another pregnant woman, was assaulted.
In Australia, get a stronger door, get the number of a good counsellor, call someone who might care, don’t answer the door, pretend you’re not at home, learn to beg, move home, arrange your valuables in such a way that the crims won’t be delayed too long taking them etc, those are your options. In America, they can also do all that but they can also go and buy guns so the next time it happens they can shoot the bastards full of lead and call the cops to come pick up the carcasses. The other day I was reading about this old timer in America, living in Pennsylvania. He is too old to fight, too sick to run and cancer took his vocal cords. So he has three handguns to do the defending for him. In Australia, they have no such options and apparently we are much better off for it, go figure.
April 8, 2008 at 11:53 am
In Australia, get a stronger door, get the number of a good counsellor, call someone who might care, don’t answer the door, pretend you’re not at home, learn to beg, move home, arrange your valuables in such a way that the crims won’t be delayed too long taking them etc, those are your options.
Very true, MK. It’s becoming more and more dangerous living in cities where thugs break into schools in gangs with machetes or into houses and beat up pregnant women. Really there is no defense available to us. It’s ludicrous.
April 8, 2008 at 4:11 pm
This is disgraceful. Is there any way that this can be reversed? Is it a matter of who is in power?
Surely the people are not happy with this scenario. It is dangerous everywhere today and we all need protection. We cannot depend on others that may not be there in time.
April 9, 2008 at 1:15 am
I think the people are happy with it Angie. Too many of us have bought the lie that we are safer for being unarmed. Running is easy, standing and fighting is hard. We just haven’t paid the full price of running and we are unfortunately not wise enough to learn from others’ mistakes.
April 9, 2008 at 6:24 am
A local radio talker, citing Dr John Lott’s findings, said that there are at least five lives saved by guns for every murder. The reason he said “at least” is that so many life saving gun uses are not reported, since no shots had to be fired.