ACP Commentary – Walker, Indiana Ranger


Originally published at: http://armedcitizenproject.org/articles/walker-indiana-ranger
Before Indiana became a state in 1816, territorial Gov. William Henry Harrison organized the Indiana Rangers in 1807 to safeguard the Buffalo Trace — the main travel route between Louisville, Ky., and Vincennes, Ind.

The Indiana Rangers were a rough and tough band of men and women who were well-trained and ready to protect new settlers and tradesmen. They were forerunners of the popular Texas Rangers, of whom I am an honorary member and on whom I based my television series “Walker, Texas Ranger.”

I think the Hoosier State and the rest of the country saw the spirit of the Indiana Rangers resurrect this past week in the Fort Wayne resident and feisty grandmother Melinda Walker.

Walker was asleep in her town house with her 5-year-old grandson this past Sunday, when she was awakened by three male robbers, who were demanding cash and her flat-screen TV, according to The Blaze.

The men said they had a gun and threatened to take it out and use it. One of the robbers kept saying, “She doesn’t think we have a gun. Take it out and clean it on her,” Walker told WANE-TV.

She feared for her grandson’s safety, she said. “All I thought of was, ‘You’re getting away from my grandson.'”

So in the midst of the assault, Walker grabbed a nearby miniature toy guitar, which accompanies her grandson’s “Guitar Hero” game, and began swinging it at the intruders.

Original Commentary by ACP Editor Kenny HAM
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Though this story has been around for a while I found it well worth a reading again, in lue of upcoming 1 year anniversary of Sandy Hook, because it makes an excellent point about what exactly is a weapon, in addition to the fact it was fittingly written by the ultimate human weapon, Chuck Norris.

If you have ever hung around biology geeks for a significant amount of time, you most likely know that a poison, technically speaking, is not a substance but a quantity; given that measured amounts of rattle snake venom are used for certain medical treatments while hundreds of ill fated sailors have died from drinking salt water.

Now in my view of things much the same goes for weapons given that a weapon is not a specific object, but rather how a specific object is used. For instance all the swords me and my friends own are either used at mantle pieces or for reenactment dress up, while I occasionally hear reports of someone getting stabbed to death with pens and pencils.

So case and point is our guitar wielding grandma. Now I’m sure that of all the reasons Melinda Walker had a Guitar Hero game in her living; one of them was not to beat the crap of out of would be home intruders. None the less, the Guitar Hero guitar made an effective weapon for defending her home and I’m sure had a toy guitar not been available, Melinda Walker would have used another everyday object as a weapon to defend her home.


The whole concept of gun control is that we need to ban certain objects to make society safer. No doubt on the anniversary of Sandy Hook gun control advocates will renew their efforts to ban AR-15’s and Glock’s which are arguably the two most popular “weapons” that gun control advocates love to hate. However, the simple absurdity of that argument is that it assumes those who are evil and psychotic enough to kill children will give up said evil and psychotic tendencies if their “weapon” of choice is not available to them. Therefore if a society lets this faulty logic play out long enough, the following happens…

We ban AR-15’s and Glock’s 
-Bad guys kill people with revolvers and shotguns

We ban revolvers and shotguns
-Bad guys kill people with replica battle axes and swords

We ban replica battle axes and swords
-Bad guys kill people with knives and sledgehammers

We ban knives and sledgehammers
-Bad guys kill people with rebar and 2×4’s

We ban rebar and 2×4’s
-Half the houses in the nation fall apart

Whey you boil it down, what gun control advocates fail to realize is that trying to ban the weapons that were used to commit atrocities will not stop future psychotics from wanting to commit atrocities. As the old saying goes, where there is a will there is a way. Tragically we know this to be true not by speculation, but by noting the mass murders that are committed with knives in communist counties where citizens can’t have guns and the almost double suicide rate in Japan which only has a small fraction of the gun ownership per capita compared to the United States.

I therefore encourage everyone not be hoodwinked into accepting the idea that banning certain objects, because someone is holding up a picture of dead child, will in any way shape or from make our society safer. Not just because Benjamin Franklin and alike warned that “They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” but also because the whole premise of the argument is based on the anti-logical assumption that banning certain objects used as weapons by bad guys will somehow keep the bad guys from using other objects as weapons. 

If however, if you want to actually make society a safer this holiday season, then I would suggest that if your grandmother or mother is alive and rooted in the notion of protecting life, limb and property. Then you buy her a shotgun for Christmas so that she does not have to use a toy guitar to fend off would be home invaders; because nothing says get out of my house quite like the racking of a 12GA shotgun shell. – See more at: http://armedcitizenproject.org/articles/walker-indiana-ranger#sthash.DSgFE5iD.dpuf

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