Yesterday morning I was watching the news when during a commercial break a promo for the Montel Williams show came on. The subject of the show was to be about women who used guns to defend themselves from violent attacks.
Well this sounded interesting so I made a point to watch the show. To say the least, I was pleasently surprised at how this show came off. To summerize:
1st woman--Single mom at home alone. Awakened in middle of night with attacker on top of her attempting to rape her and threatening to kill her. He had a gun in his hand. She decided it was better to fight than to submit. During the struggle he dropped his gun, she got it, and pumped three into his torso before running next door and calling police. He died, She lived.
2nd woman--Off duty security officer carrying concealed while walking through her neighborhood ( I presume for exercise ). Confronted by a man (crazy) who was concealing a rifle down his pants leg. He pulled out the rifle and threatened to kill her. Her first instinct was to run; she did; became trapped at a fence; BG caught up to her and she, having no choice, used her gun and shot him down.
3rd woman--Woman whose grown daughter was in a several year relationship with drug using, drug selling thug who was an angel 95% of the time. He had ONLY beat her up three times in the last two years during the 5% of the time when he was not so angelic. During his LAST unangelic rage he broke into the house where his girlfriend and their baby and the girlfriends' mother were staying and told them he was going to kill himself and all of them. Mom pulled out a pistol and guaranteed that he would be the only one carried out of the house that day.
Montel could not have been more supportive of these women using the necessary force to protect their lives. During the last part of the show it kind of drifted away from what I would have liked to have seen, by going into the psychological difficulties that may or may not manifest after something like this happens, rather than more 2nd amendment issues that could have been discussed. However, given the usual way subjects like this are presented it was a very different and refreshing major media presentation.
Well this sounded interesting so I made a point to watch the show. To say the least, I was pleasently surprised at how this show came off. To summerize:
1st woman--Single mom at home alone. Awakened in middle of night with attacker on top of her attempting to rape her and threatening to kill her. He had a gun in his hand. She decided it was better to fight than to submit. During the struggle he dropped his gun, she got it, and pumped three into his torso before running next door and calling police. He died, She lived.
2nd woman--Off duty security officer carrying concealed while walking through her neighborhood ( I presume for exercise ). Confronted by a man (crazy) who was concealing a rifle down his pants leg. He pulled out the rifle and threatened to kill her. Her first instinct was to run; she did; became trapped at a fence; BG caught up to her and she, having no choice, used her gun and shot him down.
3rd woman--Woman whose grown daughter was in a several year relationship with drug using, drug selling thug who was an angel 95% of the time. He had ONLY beat her up three times in the last two years during the 5% of the time when he was not so angelic. During his LAST unangelic rage he broke into the house where his girlfriend and their baby and the girlfriends' mother were staying and told them he was going to kill himself and all of them. Mom pulled out a pistol and guaranteed that he would be the only one carried out of the house that day.
Montel could not have been more supportive of these women using the necessary force to protect their lives. During the last part of the show it kind of drifted away from what I would have liked to have seen, by going into the psychological difficulties that may or may not manifest after something like this happens, rather than more 2nd amendment issues that could have been discussed. However, given the usual way subjects like this are presented it was a very different and refreshing major media presentation.
