What if what they want is your child?
The mother, who did not wish to be identified, said the man approached her 16-year-old daughter on Alhambra Circle near their home. “She was walking her dog in the median right out in front of our house here, and a man approached her in a truck and tried to get her to come to the truck,” the woman said. The teenager ran to nearby Coral Gables Elementary School, calling her mother and 911. The mother confronted the man and showed him her 9-mm gun. “It’s not until I showed him that I was armed and that I meant business to protect my daughter that he backed off,” she said.
The mother, who did not wish to be identified, said the man approached her 16-year-old daughter on Alhambra Circle near their home.
“She was walking her dog in the median right out in front of our house here, and a man approached her in a truck and tried to get her to come to the truck,” the woman said.
The teenager ran to nearby Coral Gables Elementary School, calling her mother and 911. The mother confronted the man and showed him her 9-mm gun.
“It’s not until I showed him that I was armed and that I meant business to protect my daughter that he backed off,” she said.
The mother shouldn't have escalated the situation like this. She should have complied with the man and let him take her daughter, calling the police to try to get on their busy schedule and have them try to find her after the fact.
That sounds stupid, doesn't it? But that's the outcome the Brady Campaign to Force Women to Allow Rapists to Take Their Daughters would much rather see happen.
She used a handgun to equalize her ability to project force. She used the threat of overwhelming violence to protect her offspring. If the Brady Campaign, VPC, or Barack Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Obama had their way and handguns were banned, what other chance would this woman have had?
No, it was the combination of a handgun and the will to protect one's family that prevented something worse from happening. Without the ability to use the best tool at hand (an easily carried force multiplier), this guy could have just plucked the girl off the street with the mother frantically trying to dial 911.
The mother said her gun made the difference in the situation. “I’m licensed. I shoot almost every week,” she said. The woman said she recommends a day at the shooting range for every parent.
The mother said her gun made the difference in the situation.
“I’m licensed. I shoot almost every week,” she said.
The woman said she recommends a day at the shooting range for every parent.
And to think there are monsters out there that would take that tool away from her.