Former Texan turns to the dark side.

[ScubaSigGuy]

http://lifestyle.msn.com/mindbodyandsou ... &GT1=10013


I happend upon this article. Disappointing to say the least.

[nitrogen]

Amazing the effect of peers can have on your attitude to things.

Some people are just not strong enough to maintain their own beliefs; they unfortunately let those around them affect what they believe in, for better or for worse.

It's a failing I see in a lot of my peers; and i'm not sure if it's something new, or something that's always been there; the want and need to appease the masses.

[GlockenHammer]

I realized I no longer needed a gun to feel powerful. If anything, my willingness to be vulnerable makes me stronger. My newfound ability to live in the moment, rather than in perpetual, agitated anticipation — and dread at maybe having to put a bullet into someone — gives me more joy.

There's a well-known saying in the pro-gun world: "It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it." I understand why that makes sense — as long as it's referring to umbrellas and tampons. As for a gun, I've come to believe that not having it and not feeling like I need it is, by far, the best way to be.

Some people learn the hard way. She should talk to Suzanna Hupp.

[GlockenHammer]

Or perhaps she should read from this article linked in from the web page containing her story...

At about 7 p.m., after my first job out of grad school, I walked down a staircase to a semi-deserted parking lot in Fort Worth, TX. About halfway down, I saw a young black man walking up the stairs two at a time. I felt a jolt of apprehension, but I continued. Just before he reached me, I looked up, smiled, and watched as he pulled a knife from his pocket and grabbed me by the arm. “Walk like you’re my girlfriend,� he said, pulling me close. When we came to the bottom of the stairs, I saw a car idling with three of his friends inside. He nodded to them, they pulled away, and he pushed me, telling me to take him to my car. I froze. To goad me, he plunged the knife into my side. Prodded like a calf, I stumbled over to my car. Inside, he forced me to drive, with the knife pointed at my stomach. I was too scared to feel the pain from the stab—until I saw the wound later, I didn’t even realize I’d been cut.

...(bad stuff happens)...

For now, all I can do is walk to my car with my keys out, pointing like a weapon in my hand.

Unfortunately, the author of this article is also a Liberal New Yorker, but she doesn't sound very empowered by being gunless.

[frankie_the_yankee]

http://lifestyle.msn.com/mindbodyandsou ... &GT1=10013


I happend upon this article. Disappointing to say the least.

What a moron.

Mentally, this woman is an infant. I would call it a bad case of regression. I guess being an adult was too much for her.

[fadlan12]

Sounds kind of bull, Whats a rapid fire mechanism? If she grew up with guns and knew a "luger from a ruger". Also The way she describes hger boyfriend as almost alien right before telling of her father who was even more gun obsessive. Sounds more like someone slated to write an article to bring those on the fence hangers to the liberal side.

[Big Calhoun]

I was raised in Alabama and Kansas, then moved to New Jersey when I was about 15 and finished highschool and went to college out there. Absolutely LOVED and miss New York City. I can also attest that it is easy to slip into a false sense of security there.

The enviorment is much different...your 'bad areas' are normally concentrated in certain towns or certain parts of towns. In NYC particularly, the police are EVERYWHERE. It's not unusual to walk around a block and see 2 or 3 officers 'patrolling' on a corner and another 2 walking around the next block over. And a lot of it is about attitude. I've walked through some of the nastitest nieghborhoods in Brooklyn and Bronx without having a care in the world. If you appear as if you belong there, no one really hassles you. When you look lost, you might as well paint a bullseye on your forehead. It is a MUCH different between New York City and Dallas. I'd compare NYC more to Houston, but even then, the people are also different. I feel a bit more secure in Texas in that I think someone would come to my aid if I encountered a situation. I have seen first hand peoples indifference during crimes while leaving in the North East. It really is a comparison between apples and oranges.

[frankie_the_yankee]

Hey, I just noticed this.

Quote 1: "But though guns were a staple of my life, I was put off by almost anything else "Texan." I worked in a store selling stilettos to drag queens. Rather than rodeos, I went to rockabilly shows. You wouldn't catch me dead wearing cowboy boots; I was all about Doc Martens. Barbecue repulsed me, and wide-open spaces made me wonder where the shops were. "

Quote 2: "On one of my first trips back to the Lone Star State,...... ..... Though I desperately missed the big Texas sky, the sweet smell after a storm, and even the barbecued brisket, the rest of the state started to feel like a lawless theme park with SUVs, stadium-size churches, and billboards advertising upcoming gun shows and reminding parents that "children under 12 are admitted free!" "

So which is it? Do wide open spaces make her wonder where the shops are, or does she "desperately" miss the big Texas sky? Does barbecued brisket "repulse" her, or does she miss the "sweet smell"?

I think this woman is a total fraud. She probably smokes dope, which explains why when she was writing the end of her piece, she couldn't remember what she had written in the middle.

[KBCraig]

Sounds kind of bull, Whats a rapid fire mechanism?

Could be this:



There's another one whose name I forget; it has an extended "trigger" instead of a crank; keep pulling, and it keeps firing bursts.

Kevin

[KBCraig]

It's funny that after all her disparaging remarks about the status of women in Texas, in the end she changed her views to better fit in with the "girls in the office" in New York.

But it seems she's of the Virginia Tech mentality: it's more important to "feel" safe in "gunless" NYC, than to actually be safer in Texas.

Kevin

[jimlongley]

Just goes to show that staying in NY City for any length of time turns your brains to mush.

[fadlan12]

Sounds kind of bull, Whats a rapid fire mechanism?

Could be this:



There's another one whose name I forget; it has an extended "trigger" instead of a crank; keep pulling, and it keeps firing bursts.

Kevin

Is that legal? wouldn't that turn it into a full auto?

[KBCraig]

Is that legal? wouldn't that turn it into a full auto?

Yes. And, no.

"Automatic" means that the firearm fires more than one shot with each function of the trigger. Turning a crank, no matter how fast the gun fires, still requires the trigger to be operated for every shot fired. The crank is not a trigger.

Gatling guns are not machine guns, and are perfectly legal without NFA registration. Gatling guns that run off of electric motors are machine guns, because the "trigger" is an electric switch, which will fire the gun multiple times so long as the trigger is depressed. But if you're turning a manual crank, it's still firing one shot per function of the trigger.

Great volumes have been written on this subject in the Class III community, and it's all well documented by BATF.

Kevin

[KBCraig]

Hey, I just noticed this.

. . .

So which is it?

Good catch.

I'd also suggest that she look up an NYC chapter of Pink Pistols. Not all of her drag queen customers (as she describes them) are willing to be unarmed victims.

As a happily heterosexual Christian married man , I still support Pink Pistols and their mission.

Kevin

[Paladin]

My gun knowledge was a novelty to my fellow paralegals, mostly women who came from Connecticut, New Jersey, and Long Island. I'm not sure if it was the widening of their eyes when I told stories about shooting, their nervous laughter, their sidelong glances at each other, or all three, but I began to realize that my experiences with weapons were not exactly the norm. I began to feel like a caricature, as if I belonged in a Coney Island sideshow as "the rootin' tootin' Texas gun lady."

for a gun, I've come to believe that not having it and not feeling like I need it is, by far, the best way to be.

Sounds like the know-it-all northeasterners brainwashed her. I've lived up in the northeast. They might be the most ignorant people out there but they like to consider themselves highly sophisticated. They don't travel much, so they don't know they're wrong.

I know from experience she's wrong. She should pray every day that experience doesn't show her how wrong she is.