Posted: 8/9/2002 9:08:47 AM EDT
I was very pleased to see on [i]Ashleigh Banfield On Location[/i] an excellent piece on women who were arming themselves in response to the serial murderer in Louisiana. [url=www.msnbc.com/news/791746.asp]Read the transcript.[/url] The piece starts about halfway down. Favorite quotes: Check out these numbers. Last August, the number of requests for concealed weapons, 262 permits requested. The first week this August alone, 447 requests. We wanted to see what was behind this, so today we went to a firing range and met with five women who had very different backgrounds. One had a new and larger gun. One had never really had a gun before. The others being there just for refresher courses, but all of them with the exact same motivation, determined to defend themselves against a serial killer. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If I’m ever in a situation where I need to use it, I need to know how to use it. I don’t want to be scared of the gun. I want to be practiced with it and ready to go. I’ve always carried a gun. I’ve carried a gun for many years, but I’m carrying it a little bit more visibly now. Whenever I walk from my house to my car, you can see my gun. JANSING (voice over): You know there are people who that freaks them out, the idea... UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. JANSING: ... that somebody is just walking around carrying a gun, and the chances of you actually getting a serial killer are slim and a lot better that you’d hurt somebody else. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: [red]Actually, no, because I know how to use a gun. I’ve practiced with a gun. I’m not carrying it waving it around like a maniac at some innocent person that’s out there.[/red] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have no intention of owning a gun, but I know a lot of people here in Baton Rouge are purchasing guns. And I guess part of my thing is I want to know how to safely use a gun, because I know that they’re pretty much readily available now, and [red]if I were to ever be in a situation where I was with someone who had a gun and there was a need to use it and they didn’t know how, if I knew how to use it safely, that it makes me more comfortable to think that I would know how to use it safely if I needed to.[/red] View Quote
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