Some folks eschew firearm ownership and think that gun owners are paranoid or delusional about violence in our society. Others embrace gun ownership, empowering themselves against the possibility of victimization by criminals. Because when bad guys attack, help can be minutes away at the donut shop across town…or it can be in your hand almost instantly.
When evil appears, talking doesn’t work any better than a sternly written letter from the United Nations. The only thing that stops bad people with evil in their hearts is a good guy or gal with a gun.
Two stories from this past week illustrate this concept perfectly. In one, an unarmed Raleigh, North Carolina school teacher was attacked and beaten to death in her own home by an intruder while she was on the phone with 911 waiting for police to arrive. In the second case, from New Mexico, an armed home owner used his gun to stop a guns a-blazing home invader, killing the violent thug dead right there.
In which category would you prefer to find yourself or members of your family? The unarmed and dead, or armed and alive?
Unarmed and Dead
Here’s what happened to the “really sweet soul,” Zoe Welsh, who was beaten to death while she was on the phone with 911 pleading for help. This story is from ABC11:
Welsh died Saturday morning after being attacked by an intruder in her home.
As the suspect in the case, Ryan Camacho, 36, is being held without bond, former students remembered Welsh.
Michael Nicholson said he can’t fathom what happened to his teacher.
“It’s tough to see something like that in a situation that transpired. You obviously see these things in the news and you see these things happen. You know, overall just to our communities. But you never think it’s you. You never think it’s going to be you until you know it happens,” Nicholson said…
“You never think it’s going to be you” is an all too common response from people. Frankly, it’s a denial response. If these people deny the existence of evil in the world, they think it won’t ever touch their lives. Denial has no survival value though.
“She was just really kind of really sweet soul and she always, she’s always had a smile on her face. She was always happy about just coming to work happy and sharing. And she really loved her, her craft, and just loved what she taught,” Nicholson said. “And I mean, all the people that had her always said she was a lovely teacher. I never heard one bad thing about her.”
The loss made is (sic) tougher by questions about Camacho’s lengthy criminal history, with 24 arrests and a recent breaking and entering case where Camacho was deemed unable to proceed and a judge denied prosecutor’s requests to have him involuntarily committed.
Oh look! Twenty-four arrests and he was still prowling the streets. Does anyone know if Raleigh has a Soros prosecutor?
We have no idea if the beloved teacher hated guns, disliked them, or supported gun control. All we know is she died while holding a phone and not a firearm.
Armed and Alive
In New Mexico, a homeowner who was armed with a pistol defended himself and his girlfriend from a young thug who began shooting when he saw the resident. The good guy took a bullet, but he’s going to survive. His girlfriend was uninjured. If the man hadn’t been armed, both would likely have been killed in the hail of bullets
Meanwhile, the 20-year-old violent intruder, Keilyn Parker, was lauded as an angel in a GoFundMe effort set up to pay for his funeral.
The GoFundMe page said it was the third time in three months the Parker family had to bury someone. There could be more going on there than is apparent, but we couldn’t possibly comment.
The Albuquerque Journal has the details:
A 20-year-old was killed in a shootout with a homeowner during an apparent burglary in Clovis just after midnight Thursday.
Clovis police were dispatched to a house in the 2500 block of East 7th Street, near Hillcrest Park, around 12:30 a.m. Friday after a 911 caller said he had been shot by a burglar, according to a news release shared on the department’s Facebook page later in the day.
The man told police he had shot back at the intruder—identified as Keilyn Parker—and that he and a woman were hiding inside a closet in the home, the release states.
Officers arrived and transported the man and Parker to Plains Regional Medical Center. Parker did not survive his injuries, according to the release.
Two home invasions with two very different outcomes. The difference: the presence of and willingness to use a firearm to protect innocent lives.
Evil is out there. Your neighborhood is not safe. Despite the high dollar real estate, the late Rob Reiner’s neighborhood isn’t safe either. Ignoring the proven, life-saving benefits of firearm ownership has consequences. Don’t let yourself experience them.
No one lives in a ‘safe neighborhood’ in today’s world. Overall the threat vector bad guys do not fear the police or courts, or security cameras, or 911, or security guards, or well-lighted areas, or public places, or locked doors, or car alarms, or pepper spray or stun guns, or dogs, or you armed with a knife or club, etc…
At a minimum, in any ‘living type’ of area (community, town, city, unincorporated or not, including rural communities clusters, gated communities or not, including workplaces and places where you shop or visit in the general public settings, or in schools or day cares or hospitals, even in your own yard, etc…): Every person in the United States, man-woman-teen-child-infant, no matter the political affiliation or ideology, no matter the amount of hired-security, no matter the responsiveness of the police, no matter the age, no matter the ‘gender’ or ‘sexual’ ideology/orientation, no matter the profession, no matter if ‘reclusive’ or not – for every (collective) 6 hours in public view (including in your own home because the home is in public view) these will be targeted as a potential victim of a violent crime at least three times during that (collective) 6 hours in public view. Its just a matter of if the threat vector doing such targeting decides to carry out their crime or not.
Overall, using any means of defense other than a firearm and employing Defensive Gun Use (DGU) provides less than a 2% chance of escaping serious injury or death at the hands of a violent attacker. This non-firearm defense includes things such as fleeing, complying, hand-to-hand-combat, clubs, knife, barricading, call 911, deploying pepper spray by some method, yelling/screaming/blowing-whistles-or-air-horns, turning on the lights, etc… .
Overall, a firearm and employing DGU provides an over 97% chance of escaping serious injury or death at the hands of a violent attacker.
The next time a person, or an anti-gun organization, or a politician or a police department, or an internet article says you do not need a gun then ask them this simple question: “If I am or my family is attacked by a violent person or a criminal breaks in – are you going to suddenly appear in that imminent and provide the needed ‘I-need-defense-now’ defense against that?” – if the answer is anything else but a simple one word ‘No’ then they lied to you when they said that you do not need a gun.
Canada firearms confiscation scheme didn’t work out too well:: Canadian ‘Buyback’ Pilot Program Officially a Bust.
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[note: government mandatory-participation ‘buy back’ is confiscation, and its not a ‘buy back’ either. First, the government can not ‘buy back’ something it never owned – its not even an actual legal-concept that a government can ‘buy back’ someones personal property the government never owned. Second, mandatory participation means they offer you a very low price, pennies on the dollar, and you are required to surrender the gun for that price or they take you to jail and then take the guns anyway if you refuse to surrender for that price or at all – this is confiscation by threat-coercion using government force.]
I’ll be honest… I threw up in my mouth when I saw that picture of the dead home invader Keilyn from his innocent high school days. WTF? An angel? A turd would have been a better depiction of his life.
What ever happened to the, ” Three Strikes And You’re Out” law ?
There are entirely too many people running around out there with multiple prior convictions.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
“Oh look! Twenty-four arrests and he was still prowling the streets. Does anyone know if Raleigh has a Soros prosecutor?”
Answer: No, Raleigh (Wake County) does not have a Soros district attorney.
https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/lorrin-freeman-balancing-act/
But we don’t know that the 24 arrests took place in Wake County. Durham is next door to Raleigh, and Durham does have a Soros district attorney.
https://www.policedefense.org/santana-deberry/
The above link says incorrectly that Debarry is the Wake County DA but she’s actually the Durham County DA.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/satanadeberry/