Dear Foxy,

Obviously you have reached the conclusion that only a firearm could give that sweet 70 year old woman a chance, hence the bow out.

But before you go, could you tell me the last time an armed police woman mas raped?

To the sundry,

"Woman Killed Would-Be Rapist in Self-Defense"
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125846&page=1

"The Man Who Would Be “Rapist” shot 9 times by his would-be victim

Read the complete article at: http://christopherdiarmani.com/4619/human-rights/self-defense-liberty/the-man-who-would-be-rapist-shot-9-times-by-his-would-be-victim/

Not in Australia of course.

Please seek the advice of the State police weapons/firearms branch in your State before following the advice concerning 'pepper spray' (or any other chemical) given in Foxy's link. Also regarding carrying a 'self defence tool' or 'weapon' to use on an attacker. That is a good way to end up facing charges yourself.

That is the problem where posters presume to give advice but are ignorant of weapons and firearms regulations.

However, women could return to those styling combs with the metal tail (not an easily broken cheapy though). See here,

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DIANE-PROFESSIONAL-8252-ALUMINUM-8-RAT-TAIL-METAL-COMB-2-COMBS-/230964164799

BTW, Eyes are the only target area where most could get a moment's pause from an attacker. Miss and hit the nose, ear or other bits, not too shabby either.

I find it incredible that people on here think the lives of some are more important than others. It would appear once again that those of the left view some more equal than others!

You have done a remarkable job of highlighting the hypocrisy of our lefty leaning nut-jobs, onthebeach. Though how you can endure conversing with fools that have their fingers firmly planted in their ears whilst blurting la, la, la all the while is truly amazing :~)

I have a couple of these fool living in my street so figured I'd put up a sign similar to this in my own front yard. Only because they never hear what anyone else has to say.

http://huntinginvirginia.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/gun_yard_sign.jpg

here in case that one doesn't work.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5zdog9viOpw/S6yaJAYqkjI/AAAAAAAABog/DNBufNkbZMY/s640/neighbor---guns1_o.jpg

And I can promise you that if I saw them being attacked or robbed, I would surely look the other way, the same for their children. It's already happened once. They don't deserve to breath IMHO!
After all, they are protesting against people having the right to protect their "very sacred gift of life".

How I choose to protect myself from harm and what tools I use is none of their god damn business. This is my life where talking about and that of my family. You only get ONE!

My creator instilled in me from day one an instinct to live and avoid harm. How these fools can blather on about people suppressing those instincts is just crap!
Faced with the situation where their lives are in danger they will do what any human being would do and that is fight back by any means available to them. They are all talk and full of sh!t.

If someone so much as hints they intend to do me or my family harm they will follow me to hell, you can bet on that!

I have it on good authority should you ever be faced with a would be assailant in your home (I hope you never do). Make sure he never speaks again and tell no one. You'll never be found out!

We of the left of center, even if it is by only one degree, indeed those at home right in the center.
Should know some of our opponents are from the truly lost far right.
They may claim to be Liberals, but have no true idea what a Liberal is.
They chew at their own feet, ignoring Howard had much support, from all sides in his harsh but needed reforms.
Yes! criminals will get guns in any case.
But a wife or husband angry and hurting should not know a pistol is within reach.
We started out talking of the totally unacceptable early release of a sexual predator.
After the publics rage drove authority's to do our bidding, he stays in prison.
Our very author said that was wrong.
We see others asking for guns, to kill, rapists and others, without trial without maybe justification.
America saw a youth in my view MURDERED at the hands of a person we, thankfully will never see walking our streets armed and waiting to kill.

RawMustard,

Thank you.

I get the impression that some, perhaps many, people are very dependent on the State and imagine that the State, ie government, can and ought take care of everything for them. They feel entitled too.

Very likely they were raised by doting parents in comfortable suburbia. Post-WW2 girls were treated as little princesses by their mums and society. - Not so much country girls, who had responsibilities and had to pitch in and help, like the rest of the family.

But then, when I went into tertiary education (I had been in boarding schools where most students were country kids), I was astonished to find that both the male and female youths at the time couldn't do the basics to keep themselves going when they moved into a flat. Imagine if they did not have access to that meat that is grown on bubble-wrap trees! It is a bit surprising to learn that even back in the Sixties, 85%+ of the Australian population were urban, not the image many promote of themselves at all.

Presently it would be well over 95%+ who are urban born and bred. That explains why some Australians could not survive a week without Woolworths. Some would certainly die of starvation if Woolworths and Centrelink both closed. Or is that Woolworths, the Grog Shop and Centrelink? They simply cannot survive without others to provide for them, think for them, do the dirty work for them and to save them, including from themselves.

So it comes as no shock that they expect the State to always take care of their security and it is quite a shock and 'someone's fault' where it doesn't happen. Too late for many to learn new tricks! Especially where they have never gone so far towards independent living as to plant and tend a tomato to fruiting.

to be continued..

continued..

However in the country (and for some women in smaller towns), women have always regarded their Aussie-made Sportco .22 and .410 shotgun as being as normal and mundane in the kitchen as a butter churn or Dutch door. They had no problem seeing birds off the veggies, the foxes away from the chooks, the dingo from the calves ("Fetch dad's Lee Enfield for me, son") and the occasional two-legged pest off the property as well ("The .410 will do, one near him and the second, buckshot, is for him if he keeps on coming").

Yet there are urban Leftie womyn who claim to be experts on women, who deny other women their birthright to protect themselves that they have exercised so independently for years (and their mothers before them), and provided game for the family stew pot as well in hard times (which was always in arid Australia).

Honestly, when will some of these hissing old urban Leftie geese mind their own backyards for a change and stop interfering in other people's lives and telling them how to do things they could never do themselves?