This story has nothing to do with her grandmotherly status.

This is one of my new pet peeves. Is there no other way they can describe this woman? Is there nothing else she has done in her life besides bear offspring who survived long enough to bear their own?

a story about a little helpless old lady with a big bad gun makes a better story. Gun folks like to promulgate these types of stories to convince us all that everyone needs a gun.

Everybody knows all the networks are in the tank for the NRA.

Try another fairy tale.

aren't we

One has to wonder if readers of this story were hoping for more "balance," you know, some extensive background on how the poor thugs were traumatized when Hershey squirting their (respective) trousers, all because of some living-in-fear grandmother with a .22

Funny, since most of then are on Facebook, that the only picture they can supply the cops is that graduation picture from 6 or 7 years ago.

Has nothing to do with your accomplishments in life, and everything to do with life.



Being called old lawyer doesn't sound as good IMHO.

But that is not my identity in life. I am many other things as well. I have accomplished many things that I am proud of, during the course of my life. I did absolutely nothing to become a grandmother.

Notice that you never see articles in which a man is identified solely as being a grandfather.

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from San Luis Obispo, CA, where first responders once again found themselves endangered by the presence of a gun in a home to which they’d been dispatched for a medical emergency. Firefighters responding to a medical alarm entered the home, announced their presence, and found the two elderly residents asleep. When the awoke, they told the firefighters it must have been a false alarm, and all seemed well. But somehow, while the firefighters were leaving the home, one of the residents became confused about the situation and decided that the firefighters they had just spoken with were actually intruders. She grabbed her gun, loaded it, accidentally fired it, and then ran after the firefighters, firing her gun in the air. The couple’s daughter arrived shortly afterward and disarmed her mother.

If you have elderly relatives who keep a gun at home, you might want to check in with them from time to time, to see whether—as is sometimes the case with operating motor vehicles—their gun might pose a danger to them or others. You don’t want to find out that they’ve “become confused,” say, next Halloween. Or when the neighbor comes to borrow a cup of sugar. Or for that matter, the day you come to visit to see if they’re still OK with that firearm.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/1/1507356/-GunFAIL-CLXXXVII

Many of the stories on your link are directly due to not following the four rules of gun safety:

1. All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.
2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target.
4. Identify your target, and what is behind it.

#1 is the one most often ignored, which leads to #3 causing injury and death.

As for older relatives, there comes a point in most cases where it may be necessary to remove all weapons from reach. Just as old age is compared to a second childhood, old age, and the changes it brings, can lead to impaired judgment and an inability to consistently act in a responsible manner. In that case, it is up to their loved ones to help protect them from themselves.

I'm coming up on 60, so this may apply to me some time soon. While I hope not, I also hope that my family will be willing to remove my collection in the event that I become incapable of acting responsibly and can't, or won't, admit it. (Although they better wait until I'm at that point - anyone trying to take them early will not like my response...)