The woman who stopped a mass murderer. That isn’t the first time that happened. But a requisite condition is that the woman be armed (otherwise her faith in God wouldn’t have been of much help). As the old saying went in the west, “God created man (and woman), but Samuel Colt made them equal.”
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Guns do not make you equal. For one all weapons are not the same in the same conditions. They replace one set of skills with another. I still remember the first time I used a rifle. I hurt my shoulder and didn’t hit anything. 🙂
The two greatest tools of equality for women: contraception and handguns.
Contraception doesn’t make women equal. It makes women even more the tools of men, because now we “don’t have an excuse” for saying “no” because “you can always go on the Pill.” An argument can be made that ready availability of contraception, having removed the fear of unwed pregnancy (and thus, societal condemnation) from the equation has destroyed the idea that men should control themselves around women, and thus women now need to carry guns, because she can’t be sure that the men around her are of that dwindling number of chivalric males who are willing to protect her, never mind not pressure her into sex.
Women don’t, except for rare exceptions, want the same type of no-strings-attached, always ready to go sex lives that men do. Feminists pushed that lie and you see how they are all now either married to beta males (but they are married) or lesbians.
Can’t speak from personal experience, Andrea. I just passed that on from those I know.
I always heard that saying in the slightly more lyrical form:
“God made people, Sam Colt made’em equal.”
But the sentiment remains true nonetheless.
“Guns do not make you equal. For one all weapons are not the same in the same conditions.”
And that can be overcame with knowledge and training. No amount of training or knowledge will give a 5’2” 100lb woman a fighting chance against a 6’4″ 230lb man unless she has a firearm. The fiream largely negates the size disadvantage.
“Women don’t, except for rare exceptions, want the same type of no-strings-attached, always ready to go sex lives that men do.”
Among today’s 20-something women it isn’t all that rare anymore.
Back on topic, not a big fan of LEO in general but this precisely what they are here to do for us. She performed that duty admirably and should be promoted and rewarded. I’m certain the state will make sure she is taken care of with your rehab of the gun shot wound to the leg. However, these guy over here are trying to get together on a purchase of an engrave AR15 for her. Granted more attention probably needs to be paid to donating to the families affecting by this tragedy. I’m sure some legit organizations will get going on that if not already.
Andrea, I had a long reply that I deleted. Here’s the gist: Everything you said is bigoted and wrong.
“Women don’t, except for rare exceptions, want the same type of no-strings-attached, always ready to go sex lives that men do.”
I’ve always been attracted to exceptional women.
Hey Josh, are you an arfcommer?
Are you even 87% an arfcommer?
I have noticed in past threads touching on things feminine, that Andrea will play the victim card at the drop of a hat. She did it to me once for a simple pun making a play on the phrase “Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
I like Andrea and think most of her posts are quite sensible but I am point out you seem to have a blind spot in this regard Andrea.
Don’t seek offense where none is intended and don’t find insult where none is present.
I think that contraceptives, being in the end merely tools, have overall resulted in greater power and freedom for women, perhaps even for men indirectly, but the simultaneous rise in feminism (and related belief systems) has lead to these sorts of problems. Feminism has empowered sociopaths, both men and women. In any case, I wouldn’t discount Andrea’s words.
“Everything you said is bigoted and wrong.”
Aw. Sorry to rain on your parade. I will add that I don’t see anything wrong with men’s stronger sex drive — they have it for a reason. The situation today is mostly women’s fault — they wanted to have their cake (judgment-free, easy sex like men have always had) but eat it too (be able to control men with words and laws the way men had previously been controlled by custom and fear of consequences — babies, daddies with shotguns, etc.). The fact that one set of restrictions has been traded for another one is unwelcome news to all concerned, but I don’t make up the facts, I just report them.
By the way, Mike Puckett, I’m such a grudge-bearing victim that I’ve forgotten all about the Virginia Woolf incident, or whatever it was. Sorry I scarred your manhood by not laughing at your joke, which I am sure was hilarious. I probably had PMS, or missed the shoe sale at Macy’s that day.
“By the way, Mike Puckett, I’m such a grudge-bearing victim that I’ve forgotten all about the Virginia Woolf incident, or whatever it was. Sorry I scarred your manhood by not laughing at your joke, which I am sure was hilarious. I probably had PMS, or missed the shoe sale at Macy’s that day.”
I want to thank you for accepting the constructive criticism I sincerely provided in such a mature and adult fashion.
Now that is a very interesting post, Andrea, and a line of thought that I, at least, had never before considered. Thanks for putting it up.
I will say one thing that seems vaguely related to what you said: the existence of contraception has done an odd thing to the conceiving of children. It’s no longer a sort of haphazard thing that just happens to you, and you adjust. It’s taken on this very deliberate aspect, like buying a house. The social pressure is high to “wait until you’re ready.” As a side effect, people are much less sympathetic to the pressures of rearing children. (“If you weren’t ready to handle it, why didn’t you wait?”)
I’m not sure I like this, from the social point of view. I don’t think it’s entirely coincidental that fertility rate has fallen so alarmingly. (And I do mean alarmingly, since among traditional European background peoples across the entire world, it is below replacement levels. In 250 years, if nothing changes, traditional European background people will be as uncommon as Easter Islanders. As Mark Steyn likes to say, the future belongs to those who show up for it.)
But more to the point, I’m not sure I like it personally. I feel vaguely that children ought to be a joyful surprise, not quite so cold-bloodedly planned. (For one thing, they often turn out very different than you think, or hope, and parents for whom children are part of a strategic life plan often have profound difficulties with that fact.)
I wouldn’t have said this when I was younger. But while my first three children were quite planned, the fourth was not. He was a surprise. And I’m struck by how magical that makes him seem now, like suddenly winning the lottery when you’d forgotten you bought a ticket. Like someone telling you you look great unexpectedly.
I realize there are profound inconsistencies here. To pay no attention to contraception and family planning is madness and bad for children, without doubt. But on the other hand, I feel vaguely that scheduling it as much as we do takes some essential existential joy out of life.
I’ve known people who had to go through the fertility-assistance business (IVF and so forth), and they are so grim and often glum about it, and the child becomes this investment that Must Pay Off (which is rough on the kid, when he doesn’t want to go to Harvard and be a doctor). Then again, I’ve known people who were open to children, but not particularly planning it, who got caught by surprise — and often they sparkle with the surprise, and perhaps with the fact that the burden of deciding “Am I Ready To Be A Parent?” lifted from them. You don’t have to decide! You are! Get started!
YMMV, of course. I recognize there are no obviously correct answers. It’s just a train of interesting thought.
I guess I might compare it to sexual attraction in the first place. I see dating services talking about matching you up by 100 different intellectual qualities: likes books, prefers early Stones to later, Greek and Indian cuisine but not French, blah blah. Doesn’t that ultimately seem a little…sterile? Isn’t it better to be with someone for whom you just have some weird magnetic attraction? Somebody that makes you go zowie wowie without really knowing why, without being able to list all the pros and cons? I suppose I feel children should kind of fit in the same category. Too much intellectualization and rationality diminishes this aspect of life.
“Hey Josh, are you an arfcommer?”
Uh, the fact that I just had to type, ‘What is an arfcommer?’ in google just now would probably make that a no. I’ve browsed ar15.com every once and a while but this time it was an unrelated search for fort hood donations that took me there.
It’s one thing to have a gun, it’s another to know how to use it, and it’s still another to have the _will_ to use it. When I went through the CA Highway Patrol confidence course, I was “killed” several times before I learned to be aggressive enough, or had acquired enough experience to be aware of when the hypothetical situation called for deadly force. It’s more common than not that young females are taught to be passive and not stand up for themselves: “Don’t be bossy.” “Don’t make waves.” “Don’t call attention to yourself.” and so on. Thankfully my Dad encouraged me at least to stand my ground, if not take the battle to the other guy. I am very glad to see the heroine of the hour is being hailed as such. We need more good examples such as she.
Absolutely Aleta, if anyone deserves a beer summit with Pres. Obama it should be this fine upstanding officer.
Isn’t it funny that when it comes with a race baiting situation Pres. Obama has no problems with jumping to conclusions with his 2 cents. Yet, when it comes to this what does he say, “We don’t want to jump to conclusions until more is known.”
Where is “Jim”?
Say his name three times fast and he will appear!
Carl Pham: yeah, it reminds me of the beginning of Idiocracy (a movie that you should see if you haven’t — it’s hilarious), where they are interviewing the highly intelligent couple who keep putting off having children because they want to plan everything perfectly and do it at the right time — which never comes, they end up never having a kid. Where on the other hand, the dumb trailer trash couple have ten kids.
Getting back to this idiot shooter, I sincerely hope he dies very soon. If he survives, and gets the rope after a military trial, the President has to sign off on the execution. And this president……
Screw rope. The .mil solution is a Firing Squad.
I have a horrible feeling Obama’s going to arrange a light sentence for the killer to show how compassionate he is.
“I have a horrible feeling Obama’s going to arrange a light sentence for the killer to show how compassionate he is.”
Yeah, and the Heroine will get sued by CAIR for infringing his right to religious expression.
Yes, another PR blunder/teachable-moment for the prez. Time for a beer summit with the police officer and the murderer…
Here’s a woman back in history taking care of a bad dude. No gun handy either:
(From Judges 4)
All the troops of Sisera fell by the sword; not a man was left.
17 Sisera, however, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there were friendly relations between Jabin king of Hazor and the clan of Heber the Kenite.
18 Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come, my Lord , come right in. Don’t be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she put a covering over him.
19 “I’m thirsty,” he said. “Please give me some water.” She opened a skin of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him up.
20 “Stand in the doorway of the tent,” he told her. “If someone comes by and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?’ say ‘No.’ ”
21 But Jael, Heber’s wife, picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went quietly to him while he lay fast asleep, exhausted. She drove the peg through his temple into the ground, and he died.
22 Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you’re looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple-dead.