April 21, 2007
Maybe it is a gun culture
Miss America 1944, as told by Yahoo News/AP/LATimes:
WAYNESBURG, KY. — Miss America 1944 has a talent that probably has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder.Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.
Ramey said the man told her he would leave. "I said, 'Oh, no you won't,' and I shot their tires so they couldn't leave," Ramey said.
She had to balance on her walker as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun.
I love this country.
UPDATE: Insty beat me to this one by a few hours, and links to Don Surber, who has a picture.
Gun Rights Posted by jk at April 21, 2007 3:27 PM
The equalizing power of firearms is awesome...
Posted by: AlexC at April 21, 2007 5:53 PMCorrection: It really WAS a gun culture... in 1944. This was the era when many a young boy carried his .22 rifle to school with him, left it in his locker all day, and hunted rabbits on his way home. These were the men who, when faced with the international threat of a genocidal madman in central Europe, and ordered by the president to go across the ocean and defeat a mighty army, kept marching forward until the enemy surrendered. They knew how to handle a firearm, and what it was for (and not for).
Today, young boys and girls are expelled from school for a week if they bring a butter knife to school. Today, it is a butter-knife culture.
Any wonder why Mahmood isn't afraid?
Posted by: johngalt at April 22, 2007 12:25 PM | What do you think? [2]