The writer advises, "...after being robbed in one form or another three times last year, I started feeling helpless,..."
She then goes on to advise that she has purchased mace. Good for her, but would someone please tell me why or how she felt the need to go into such a verbose diatribe about guns? I ask this as I assume she has never had a weapon equal to her attacker. I would also STRONGLY advise her to watch COPS or LIFE ON THE BEAT and see just how useless mace/pepper spray can be against most criminals. Due to her propensity to be seen as "helpless" by the criminal element in her locale, I honestly hope, for her sake, that the mace works instead of just inflaming an attacker to the point of angrily deciding to use a more substantial weapon.
As a reader, I can only assume she has used her personal experiences to bring out from left field an attack against guns and or gun owners. Her argument would have best been written (i.e. stated) against the criminals that perceived her as a helpless victim and attacked her based on this perception. I am familiar with over a dozen women that WOULD have been a victim of a violent crime had they not been armed with a gun.
Sometimes people who think or believe that guns are the problem in this country have no real sense of the criminals in this country. Guns are NOT the problem, and when it comes to criminals; regretfully, guns are sometimes the only means a law abiding citizen like Ms. Simmermon has of actually equalizing the force level an attacker brings to the crime.
Hopefully she won't have to learn this lesson the hard way, and with all due respect to you Ms. Simmermon, good luck with your mace vs. a maniac with a gun.
Posted on May 2 at 5:28 p.m.
The writer advises, "...after being robbed in one form or another three times last year, I started feeling helpless,..."
She then goes on to advise that she has purchased mace. Good for her, but would someone please tell me why or how she felt the need to go into such a verbose diatribe about guns? I ask this as I assume she has never had a weapon equal to her attacker. I would also STRONGLY advise her to watch COPS or LIFE ON THE BEAT and see just how useless mace/pepper spray can be against most criminals. Due to her propensity to be seen as "helpless" by the criminal element in her locale, I honestly hope, for her sake, that the mace works instead of just inflaming an attacker to the point of angrily deciding to use a more substantial weapon.
As a reader, I can only assume she has used her personal experiences to bring out from left field an attack against guns and or gun owners. Her argument would have best been written (i.e. stated) against the criminals that perceived her as a helpless victim and attacked her based on this perception. I am familiar with over a dozen women that WOULD have been a victim of a violent crime had they not been armed with a gun.
Sometimes people who think or believe that guns are the problem in this country have no real sense of the criminals in this country. Guns are NOT the problem, and when it comes to criminals; regretfully, guns are sometimes the only means a law abiding citizen like Ms. Simmermon has of actually equalizing the force level an attacker brings to the crime.
Hopefully she won't have to learn this lesson the hard way, and with all due respect to you Ms. Simmermon, good luck with your mace vs. a maniac with a gun.
On Simmermon: It’s a bad day when you have to buy mace