- A woman who was sitting outside the back door of her suburban home, in broad daylight, suddenly sees several armed men vault over her privacy fence, and bolts for the house, but she's not quite fast enough, and within the next few minutes her husband and children are being beaten nearly to death while she's being both beaten and raped right in front of them.
So. . .
- I wonder how many women, who would decide to sit out in their own backyard, reading or relaxing, would have a gun on their person...? I know a few who might, but - in their own suburban backyard...???
How many husbands or kids would be in the house when such an event happened, and have a gun on their person, which seems to be the only possible way this situation could have been stopped...? Again, I know a few who might, but not many.
Some of my friends tease me about being 'too paranoid', but I'll have to admit, I am not always as 'ready' as one would have to be to deal with such an awful situation (unfortunately, odds are if it happens, it won't be as I am heading out to the back pasture range to shoot a couple magazines out of my Mini-14...
).This forum has people who live in big-city apartments, and remote rural ranches, and everything in between, and some who live in areas where one could tote an M1A when going out to check the mailbox and not attract attention, and some who live in areas with strict bans on carrying and even possession of anything 'too powerful'. Some places, if scum like these guys tried that kind of thing, they'd be shot to pieces before they got halfway across the yard, and likely triple-S'd or found a few years later accidentally fallen down some abandoned mine-shaft, but the frightening reality is that for even most of us 'gun' people, such an event would have a good chance of catching us in Cooper's "condition white", or perhaps "pale yellow" (condition yellow but-without-a-weapon).
Just something to think about - and remind your loved ones to think about. This was a real event, with tragic consequences for real human beings. The Scary Music only happens in movies and television; in the real world, trouble is just suddenly there, and it comes no more slowly or gently just because you happen to be in a place where you are 'statistically safer' than those scary and bad places other people live.
P.S. - if you think about it, the same thing can happen on a national/social scale, instead of just a home/family one; riots and chaos and large angry mobs of people are just a few meals away in most cities (or few days with the grid down or the banks closed). Then it likely isn't a matter of just rallying the other household members to fight some rape-gang, but a matter of rallying the other good and honest community members to protect entire communities; without any sort of structure or Civil Defense type planning, I doubt that would ever materialize in most communities rapidly enough to do any good...
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