Marie Claire: Do Girls Need Guns?

[ironpegasus]

• Me: "Just like marijuana, meth, cocaine, etc, they will still be made... And even if they are legal for "special ops", criminals always figure out a way to get their hands on anything illegal... Case in point, a bay area law enforcement agency had their AWs stolen out of their cars, and that happened right after the Oscar Grant BART incident, and then a few weeks later 4 Oakland Officers were killed by someone with an illegal AW. Where do you suppose that thug got his hands on that AW???

Except that the AW that guy used was an AK. Last time I checked, the majority of PDs use AR based rifles, not AKs. So somebody else has those AWs stolen from the squad car and that bad guy still had managed to get his hands on an AW from an external source (probably from one of the many shipping containers that have made it past customs over the years). The point is still valid, but the facts aren't in order there.

[jdberger]

Except that the AW that guy used was an AK. Last time I checked, the majority of PDs use AR based rifles, not AKs. So somebody else has those AWs stolen from the squad car and that bad guy still had managed to get his hands on an AW from an external source (probably from one of the many shipping containers that have made it past customs over the years). The point is still valid, but the facts aren't in order there.

This remains unconfirmed. In fact, it's also been reported that it was an SKS.

[ironpegasus]

I stand corrected - point is neither an AK nor an SKS is likely to be found in a patrol car unless it was there because it was confiscated from somewhere. If it had been a weapon stolen froma a patrol car we would have heard that by now unless the antis know that it would prove our point of "criminals are criminals and therefore aren't subject to the same rules and regulations that law-abiding citizens go through to get firearms - they'll get them one way or another if they want to."

[XD9JEN]

LOVE THIS! I will be buying this book!

[Decoligny]

I wonder what's with the picture that comes with that article. What's the woman holding? Maybe, that's what the interviewer thought guns are?

I think it is the industrial sized pepper spray.

Actually looks like some kind modified fire extinguisher.

[rjf]

Too late to outlaw guns. I heard some people build AK 47s in their garage out of a flat piece of metal

[spdski]

I wonder what's with the picture that comes with that article. What's the woman holding? Maybe, that's what the interviewer thought guns are?

It's Angelina Jolie from her recent movie.... not sure why it's used for this article...

[minerva1856]

Isn't that a scene from SALT?

[minerva1856]

too slow

[spddrcr]

it is angelina Jolie from the movie salt, she has a fire extinguisher with a metal leg from a table connected to it and she mixes a bunch of chemicals and uses this contraption as a launcher of sorts.

[XD9JEN]

FYI, Not sure about the article but the book was published in 1993

[Steyrlp10]

Knowing someone rather intimately who was raped I can say that NO woman gets over being raped. This woman has made it clear to me that if any man tries that again, she will empty the magazine, reload and empty that one into him as well..

No woman ever gets over being punched out or having her children threatened either, so I agree with you.

Motivation does amazing things.

[glbtrottr]

I think everyone should be trained on guns and understand its for defense use too

I think women should be precluded from owning cats unless we run the risk of them carrying them concealed

[dantodd]

I think women should be precluded from owning cats unless we run the risk of them carrying them concealed

I will resist! this is one of the few times I will pass on a particularly lewd comment strictly because I post under my own name.

[Wherryj]

My favorite group ever said it best.

"With a gat it don't matter if you're smaller or bigger."

Ok, I'll bite. What's a gat?

Is it anything like a Yute?