Accidental discharge? Damn thing get snagged on your hair or sheets, blanket.

Don't buy into the only glock hype. (or slab sided strikers in general) For HD the ole hammer is your friend.

she endangered everyone within a two mile radius with her barrel stroking itch to kill. She had so many options:

-sleep with a can of wasp spray under her pillow
-she's young. she could have run away
-even if she couldn't I know a 80 lb. 70 yro lady who incapacitated seven bikers using only a wooden spoon
-and I know a man who is only 6'9", 375 lbs, an Olympic freestyle wrestling gold-medalist who lived in Poughkeepsie back in the "bad old days" and he never needed a gun so obviously she didn't need one either

I'm not even going to talk about beans because this alleged "intruder" was probably just looking for a bathroom and had no ill intent...

Besides, it is better to be a victim:

Precisely. Every idiot knows that .22 long rifle is able to penetrate up to 16 barriers on it's way to mutilating human flesh.

Gun-humping ammosexual coward indeed!

Edited to add: Notice the way the city official shut down the young man. "We can talk about it later......" Didn't want an open and honest discussion.

The OP is linked to a RW website.

Why can't gun nuts find any liberal websites that support their agenda?

Both World News Daily and the Blaze as a source to promote an agenda. However if you would notice post 5 lists a media source that presented the original story.

In your eyes a teenaged victim protecting herself from a criminal is supporting an agenda, revealing...

who is pro-control over a Democrat (who also may support gun control)

were made to display the depravity of conservative views on the gun issue, not to promote those views.

You consider a story about a teen girl protecting herself from a criminal supports depraved conservative views.

Why is that? Is it simply because she used a gun as her means of protection? Would another choice of weapon be more acceptable or is the use of any weapon in self defense distasteful? Or should she have followed the words of the former Deputy Mayor of Public Safety, be scared, be frightened, and even if needed be injured, but to walk away and survive. She would heal and can replace whatever was taken away?

At a children's hospital after highschool. It was very inspirational seeing how children could face and thrive in the face of cancer, limbs lost in traffic or farm accidents or even gunshot wounds.
I saw a teen who was shot in the head with a 30-06 in a hunting accident. I never saw blood pour out of a person faster, even people who had been blown up by IEDs. We talked to the surgeon afterwards who gave the boy a 0% chance of surviving; he said he only worked on him to give the family some peace of mind. Three weeks later I brought that kid to the door in a wheelchair where he stood up and walked out to his family car.

But none of that has anything to do with the event here. Would you care to answer instead of trying to deflect?

You're attempting to use the "event" to promote gun ownership and keeping firearms in the home.

I've posted an "event" showing the negative results of keeping a gun in the home.

I have in the past stated my belief that the majority of people would not be capable of successful self defense with firearms. The vast majority of the people in that group will never seek to purchase a firearm. I still stand by that.

It is unfortunate that Mother Jones does not credit the source of the "facts" correcting that myth. There are other views however-

Her language?

Just because you've always heard it doesn't make it true. The originator of that quote also invented Scientology

It would just kill you to say it is a good thing she was given access to a firearm to prevent her from becoming a beaten, raped or murder victim wouldn't it? Or conversely to have the moral courage to say I believe guns are wrong and should never be used even in self-defense.

Survived her encounter with the criminal alive and unharmed.

That seems to trouble you

The inability to support a victim who defends herself is the perfect illustration of the moral bankruptcy of the gun control movement. To gun control zealots this girl is not a victim but the aggressor. The gun determines who is the victim regardless of circumstances.

That outlook is what places the Boston bombers on the list of "victims of gun violence" right beside the children of Sandy Hook. The blind hated of guns, which carries over to those who own them, leads such zealots to ignore the circumstances of the action. In their eyes a teenager protecting herself from an intruder is no different from a common street criminal robbing the local convenience store at gunpoint.

To repeat Mr. Quander's point, "It is better to be a victim". There is no concern for keeping innocent people from becoming victims, only in preventing someone, be they criminal or terrorist, from becoming a victim of gun violence.

"You'll heal"

did invent Scientology Hubbard did.

I meant leave confused the two authors and pick the wrong one as the source.

The point however is that it is a out of context quote from a fiction writing by an author who admits to having radical beliefs.

Now I've heard it all. The is how the left earns some of the pejoratives directed it's way.

What could be more pathetic than the idea the criminals need to be protected from foul language?

Getting offended by accounts of crime victims actively resisting victimization seems way more pathetic to me...

when you're reduced to using the language card, and mother jones as a resource.

I'm going to get with a sound engineer to discuss the possibility of porting my glock barrel to make a f**k you sound when it fires just so I don't have to say it.

Perhaps a more well-versed DUer could enlighten us...

...to have a policy where those who disagree with or simply question the truth of assertions are allowed a voice...
...don't you?

We pro-RKBA folks acknowledge a place in the party for favoring pro-regulation issues and those who propound those issues.

Some anti-RKBA folks want to further the opinion that those friendly to the RKBA position don't belong in the party.

Isn't always better to allow for open discussion?

Ummm no. He's host of a group with 88 banned members, but the few regulars that do post there are free to troll this group without consequence.

so that we can accurately place these incidents next to the 10k criminal shootings that happen each year, and thus determine whether the 2A is worth it...

Any other parts of the Bill of Rights you think aren't cutting it any more?

research ban, by criminologists, to attempt to count them. IIRC, the CDC used an average of those studies. Two studies that I know of put it in the millions per year, one of them funded by a gun control group by a couple of economists who do shill studies for them.

Also, gun laws would affect few if any of the criminal shootings any more than a ban on heroin is preventing the 44K deaths per year. Criminal gangs don't go to gun stores nor do they go to gun shows. LA gangs get theirs from Mexico, in spite of its strict gun laws.

Oh, worth reading
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674016088&content=reviews