Friday, October 3, 2008

QOTD

Today's quote comes from the World's Most Dangerous Librarian:

Welcome to a brand new world. The one where the smallest person in the room just might be the most dangerous.


And therein lies a beautiful side benefit of the Second Amendment, folks: The equalizing factor. Someone of Breda's size doesn't have much of a chance against a guy my size unarmed. Even with an edged weapon, only the most skilled practioner of bladed combat could hope to prevail against an attacker nearly twice their size.

But 5 rounds of .38 special JHPs will take down even the most determined attacker, regardless of size.

I guess I'm biased a bit here; growing up I knew two young women brutally murdered by boyfriends. One was a friend of my sister, whose boyfriend couldn't accept that they were breaking up; the other was my friend's cousin, stabbed to death by her too-macho-to-take-goodbye 'roid head boyfriend. Either of which would have ended quite differently had the young women had Breda's mindset and firepower.

Needless to say, my little girl will be brought up to favor the mindset shown by our armed librarian.

That is all.

2 comments:

Sevesteen said...

I think this is one of the most important benefits of the second amendment. The amount of crime that is stopped by direct action of a gun defender is small compared to the amount stopped by the idea of unknown gun owners and license holders.

Weer'd Beard said...

I also like to point out that while the thug-on-the-street was getting in his first bar fight, I was likely Studying for the SAT, While he was getting his first felony conviction, I was learning how to play D&D with friends. I've spent the majority of my life improving and honing my mind so I can have the promising career in the sciences that I have.

While 6'0" and 190 lbs I'm hardly "190 pounds of prison-hardened muscle".

Even a big dog knows he's hardly the biggest dog on the block. Why should my avoidance of violence be a disadvantage if somebody who has used violence their whole life decides they need to do me harm?