” As the sole protector of my family, I felt compelled to find a better way… than keeping a butter knife under my pillow or hoping a 911 call would bring help to my remote abode in time.”
Joline Gutierez Krueger has made a living writing against guns, but when the going gets tough, the tough get a Ruger 22-Caliber pistol.
“…my change of heart had come about because someone in my inner circle had finally broken away from a horrific relationship, throwing the rest of my family into a dangerous, potentially deadly drama. As the sole protector of my family, I felt compelled to find a better way to do that protecting than keeping a butter knife under my pillow or hoping a 911 call would bring help to my remote abode in time.”Source: http://www.abqjournal.com/256717/news/buying-a-handgun-didnt-make-writer-feel-any-safer-after-all.html
Krueger also experienced the nightmare gun control creates for law-abiding people: “purchasing my first gun hit a snag when the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System was not so instant and spit back, for reasons I still don’t know, a “DELAY” notification requiring an additional check.”
Of course, you can take a gun hater to a gun store, but you can’t take the gun hate out of them.
“Still haven’t fired a single cartridge.
I haven’t taken a class, haven’t set foot in a shooting range. The gun sits locked and unloaded in a secure safe, as shiny as the day I bought it.”
Liberals have have no sense of commitment. I can sit in a 10-hour class to get a concealed carry permit, but Krueger can’t find 30 minutes to shoot her new gun.
Of course, liberals don’t usually buy guns to use them, they buy them to demonize them:
“Maybe I’m chicken. Maybe I just haven’t had time. But maybe something visceral happened when I held that gun and those brassy bullets.
Maybe Sandy Hook.
Maybe George Zimmerman.
Maybe Tera Chavez.
Maybe Hadiya Pendleton.
Maybe Sunni Reza, the 8-year-old Albuquerque girl shot and killed in the crossfire of a gang-related shooting in May.”
The list goes on of course, but I won’t print it here. GunsSaveLives.net has 954 armed self-defense stories so far.
“Maybe because I have seen so few situations where a gun made things safer.
Maybe because I just don’t have the stomach to be in this kind of fraternity.”
Yet you still bought the gun, some liberals can’t even enter a gun store, much less buy a gun, yet you could. So even if you’re an infiltrator, you joined the fraternity the moment you bought your gun and took it home.
“Mostly, there is this: My youngest, who is special needs, got angry at an older brother recently and threatened to get my gun and shoot him.
Not that he could. The gun safe requires my fingerprint to open. The magazine is out, the cartridges are removed.”
#1. I’m not surprised your son said that, she’s being raised by a women who has made a living demonizing guns.
#2. If you’re going to buy a gun for security, keep it LOADED. Furthermore, ANY security system can be compromised, that doesn’t mean we get rid of our guns, but we do teach our kids to respect them.
“Which also means that had that previous family drama that convinced me to purchase a gun in the first place escalated, my Ruger would have been of no use to me, unless I could have talked the intruder into waiting while I retrieved it from the safe, loaded it and figured out how to shoot it.
I bought the gun to feel safer. I don’t.”
Of course you don’t. You haven’t gone to the gun range (you admitted that), you haven’t practiced, you haven’t talked to anyone familiar with firearms, you’re storing your gun the wrong way, and you’re a liberal. The problem isn’t the gun, the problem is you. That feeling of safety comes when you know how to use the gun, how to soot straight, how to carry it, how to store it, etc. Here’s an idea, PRACTICE.
“And what am I teaching my son? That a gun can resolve conflicts?”
Yes, they do resolve conflicts, whether it’s the Navy Seals killing Osama or a homeowner shooting a burglar, they are the ultimate in conflict-resolution. I know you liberals like to talk, but if diplomacy worked, Hitler would not have invaded Poland, King George would have agreed with the Declaration of Independence, and every rapist would understand the meaning of “no.” In the real world, talk is cheap, and sometimes you have to use force in defense of yourself or others. Frankly, I hope your son is tough, because if he’s going to cry to the bully “don’t be mean to me” he’s only going to get bullied more.
“For now, though, I’m leaning toward thinking it’s best to take my chances with the butter knife under the pillow. That, somehow, seems safer.”
Sure, because a dull blade is such a powerful weapon. Lady, do you even know how to fight with a knife? Do you even know how to hold it?
Krueger, listen to that common sense that made you buy the gun in the first place. You know 911 isn’t fast enough, you know a butter knife isn’t a weapon. Here’s an idea, instead of worrying about what bad might happen with your gun, worry about what might happen if you don’t have a gun.
Let her know what you think at
