First the lie: It was not a “schoolyard scuffle” as it happened in a public park that happens to be near a school. Moms do love to say anything happening near a school constitutes a school shooting, so par for the course.
But to insinuate that a mother should not bring the most efficient tool to defend her kid against two 18-year-old thugs and a third-party who was underage is just plain idiotic. Or are we seeing the demise of Motherhood here? Even if it is your own flesh and blood, you should not defend their lives because….what? It just does not compute in my head. Do they want to excise the principle of Mama Bear and demand that mothers only use “safe methods” against those who want to hurt their children? Lemonades? Quilts? Cute Signs to Congress?
Faux Leader of a Faux Movement makes for Faux Mothers.
I suppose it would only be “fair” to Moms Demand if the mom in question were to go bare-knuckle one-vs-many with those teens.
They would rather she and her son were raped and killed fighting with men half her age than she defend herself with a gun and everybody walks away unscathed.
There is so much derp and fail in the whole story that I can barely drum up any notion of supporting Mrs. Leeser. Yes, self defense and defense of her supposedly innocent son against greater numbers and disparity of force and all that. But what happened after she got there pretty much removed all that from the table.
There seems to have been so much machisma/machismo floating around that afternoon that you could probably see it hanging in the air like fog.
Defuse. Deescalate. Disengage, But noooooooooo!
I’m almost at the point of calling the cops and begging them to arrest Mrs.; Leeser for her own safety.
stay safe.
I think I’m going to pay dues to the CSGV and talk to them about giving a presentation on “Forensics in Violent Crime.” Exactly the kind of violence porn these people like.
Then when I get to the stage, it is going to 100% on head trauma and death in “unarmed” conflict. Sure, I’ll get dragged off stage by security, but it would be worth it.
I would think that if she was justified in drawing her firearm then it was time to shoot the thugs.
If things were escalating, she should be warning them that deadly force was just around the corner and if and when those criteria were met, she should draw and shoot center mass.
You don’t wave your gun around. If it comes out of the holster it is only because you have a legitimate deadly threat.
The youths are lucky to be alive.
For CSGV readers, it is appropriate for a mom and everyone else to be armed since you never know when such a threat to innocent life might present itself. As clockworkgremlin states, such a disparity in force should be countered by a firearm, not harsh words.