46 Replies to “Easy Target”

  1. Gotta feel bad for Deron Johnson. “Hey Bro, what happened to your arm? A Granny in a wheelchair shot me.”

  4. Notice She [definately!] shot, while it was the “alleged” mugger.
    Sort of like the CBC calling the thwarted terrorist act in London UK last month “alleged”, even after the martyrdom videos surfaced.

  5. Good for Granny! You go, girl!
    I’m not sure how I feel about people toting guns, but it sure is satisfying to see someone in a wheelchair being able to defend themselves.
    Here, north of the 49th parallel, Margaret Johnson would have been robbed, for sure, and the guy would quite probably have got away.
    I guess in Harlem, at least, thugs will think twice before grappling with a gun-toting granny!

  8. Had this happened in Canada, the “alleged” mugger would have been represented by Edward Greenspon and had his troubled past splashed across the newspapers to note his victimhood status…he would have had any charges against him dropped.
    The lady in the wheelchair would have been charged with attempted murder and thrown in jail (although the happy side of the story is that her 10 year sentence would be reduced and she’d be let out on parole after 2 years less a day served)! Ah, sweet justice!

  9. Canadian Observer asks: “Where does it say anywhere in the story she was a’granny’?”
    Hey, CO: Kate said she was a granny. That’s good enough for me.

  11. Well her line, “theres not much to it” made me laugh out loud. Seemed pretty straight-forward to me!

  13. A 56 year old granny on her way to the range, in a wheelchair, gotta love it. More proof of the idea “An armed society is a polite society”.

  15. Apropos of left wing state “justice”, is anyone familiar with the Tony Martin story in Britain?
    This took place in the late 90’s. Mr. Martin shot two assailants who broke into in his home at night, killing one and wounding another.
    To make a long story short, Mr. Martin was actually convicted of manslaughter … The surviving assailant (both burglars with criminal records as long as your arm) was convicted of burglary.
    Mr. Martin actually served more time than did the burglar. The Crown Parole Service wouldn’t approve Mr. Martin for parole because he refused to “accept guilt and show remorse”. He served his whole sentence.

  16. Too bad the granny didn’t hit the dirtbag in the forehead.
    As for burglary…in Canada, if you shoot at a burglar in your home, you had better shoot to kill. If you just wound the scum…..finish him off with a shot to the head.
    That’s the advice I received from the Halifax police when my house was broken in to. Even the cops know the laws in Canada are geared towards the criminal and not the victims.
    So…if you find someone in your house….kill the bastards cold dead. Don’t allow them the opportunity to make something up after the fact.

  17. Out here in the sticks, I’m guessing just about every farmer has a 12 bore sittin’ around to keep the coyotes off the livestock. Some arsehole breaks into one of their homes, they’ll end up with a big smokin’ hole in the thorax you can toss a cat through.

  18. Chances are whether you kill him or not you’ll be charged with something. If nothing else they’ll nail you for “improper storage of a firearm” because there’s no way in hell that you could get to a properly stored weapon in time to actually use it on your assailant.

  19. I agree with most of the comments extrapolating Margaret Johnson’s probable outcome in the Canada’s.
    The law would be after her like a wolf after fresh meat. They hate the idea of anyone even shielding themselves. At least the Brass does. The courts of course, who see normal law abiders as the real criminals . Who create the scofflaws by there indifference & abuse peppered by parental prejudice. A mad hatter theory if there ever was one.
    “Society is at fault” would be chanted endlessly by the left. So all sympathy is towards the criminal. The intended real victim than could be demonized by the MSM who hold the same certainty.
    I don’t know about you folks? I Find it insidious that the State would be so fired up to stop us from self defense. I mean even an animal is allowed to defend itself. Why are we not? That’s the Question. Just my opinion.

  20. Anyone wanna bet that if the robber’s injury was more severe than an elbow wound, MSM would have started an information campaign to discredit the woman’s character. They might have portrayed her as a crazed inner city Granny Clampett with Charles Bronson sympathies. Osama would get better treatment.

  21. the thing is, in a bad situation, you don’t have the luxury of “thinking about it”, you just have to act. so you take care of you & yours instantly… and then you get a lawyer to sweep up the mess.
    or you hesitate and maybe end up looking at the handle of a steak knife that’s buried in your chest.
    choose.

  23. As Dirty Harry would say:”Nothing wrong with shooting as long as the right people get shot.”

  24. In Canada it always comes back to the concept of private property. Those fellow citizens breaking into your home cannot be assumed to have any violent intentions, they’re most likely to be just helping themselves to reparation payments for social injustice. It’s not theft, it’s “scrounging”. Don’t believe me? Ask your local NDPer. I remember when the new constitution was being discussed in the media before it was signed, Trudeau’s justification for the exclusion of private property rights was to avoid an American-style society where homeowners shot trespassers, Canadian values were deemed to be that someone does not deserve to die for a property crime.

  26. my uncle was murdered by a man who was just released from a canadian prison…he did 9 years for his first murder, 11 for my uncle…if only my uncle was armed…

  28. My view is that a .38 should be standard equipment for women, along with their lipstick and compact.
    I would recommend a good quality .38 revolver with plus-P ammunition over a semi-automatic. Although semi-autos are very popular today, they have a more complicated manual of arms (one has to have the time and presence of mind to click off the safety, and sometimes cock the gun for the first round).
    Princess Anne was attacked 15 years ago or so by a kidnapper. The royal protection team had their clips in Walther PPKs for such a long period that the spring in the clips had lost tensor strength. Consequently, the round was not pushed into the chamber by the spring. It was only through a comedy of events that she failed to be kidnapped.
    In New York City, police used to use .38s before 9 mm semi-autos became necessary when facing criminals who had the capacity for fire suppression because of their high-capacity magazines. When the cops shot a guy, sometimes they would get up. However, when the PD went to plus-P ammo, the bad guys stayed down permanently.
    So, my recommendation for a woman in a defensive position such as our heroine would be a .38 with plus-P hollow points. (Make sure that a person carries extra rounds!)
    Tony Martin made the cover of the NRA magazine along with a story about his predicament. He is a brave man caught in the totalitarian socialist wheels of British government.
    My view is that any government that oppresses people by refusing to allow them necessary self-defense is an outlaw regime.

  29. Not only would she be punished in Canada, the
    ‘alleged victim’ would be allowed to sue her.
    I’m all for the right to protect self and property and think many would be attackers and robbers would think twice if they thought there was a good chance of a gun meeting them.
    I think it bears reminding though how lucky Margaret was in this case considereing he came up behind her. She is also lucky there wasn’t anyone with him. Common sense and proper training is a must.

  32. Greg!!! I knew I liked ya’ right away.
    My experience is that an armed society is a polite society.
    Pat

  33. I’d be careful with the “she’d go to jail” bit.
    The cops do not like charging women for “defence” crimes. It’d be a LOT different if it were a grandfather in a wheelchair, or me, a grandfather with a couple of canes: We would indeed be charged for defending ourselves.
    Our family has a bit of experience in this area of law. My wife is tiny, she can trade clothes with our six year old granddaughter. She was let off with no comment on a defence … a drunk thought he could rough her up and got a rather nasty shock: He didn’t realize that this particular tiny woman has the fighting ability of a pitbull.
    A cousin got 11 years for firing at the robbers who had already shot and wounded his clerk.
    You MUST take gender into account in these things.
    Also, remember that it is your teenage son who is most likely to be mugged and most likely by a WIDE margin. Only teenage boys have enough hospitalizations due to mugging to show up in the hospitalization data sets and they always do show up in those data sets.

  34. Brings real meaning to SHOOT SHOVEL AND SHUTUP.
    I have often wondered how many people don’t step forward to help because of our warped justice system and some of the goofy logic it dispenses? How many Police Officers don’t bother to arrest someone anymore, on say drug related charges or crimes by a “minority of native or dark skinned appearance” because they are out on the street like nothing had happened before the Officer has finished the paperwork? Why would anyone come to the aid of a fellow citizen in trouble and use force to help out? I don’t think I could walk away but I would help out, get out and get lost. Isn’t my attitude just great, it never used to be, but it sure as the hell is now THANKS IN PART TO pierre THE PIG and the country he left us.

  35. I’m still trying to understand how this guy got shot in the elbow with a .357 and still has his arm. The elbow is pretty much all bone. And a .357 is an immensely powerful handgun. I would expect the round from one of those to disintegrate bone. He must have just gotten nicked.
    On the street, I have no doubt that gender matters. If this were a man in a wheelchair who did the shooting, it would not be decided so quickly that charges were not being considered. If it were a man with the full use of his legs, there, at the very least, be a long investigation.
    I’m not totally on board with those here who are insinuating that, only in Canada, a person who breaks into your home and winds up dead or wounded would be treated a whole lot differently.
    Americans are very big on juries and lawsuits – much more so than Canadians. It is sad to say it, but if someone breaks into your home, it is (from a legal point of view) better to kill them than to wound them. And I would say that that’s true on both sides of the border. Of course in Canada, use a firearm in any situation and you can expect hell from the nanny state.
    If someone broke into my home and I caught them, I would have no compunction about killing them. My defense would simply be that they endangered the one place where my family should be safe and needed to be neutralized. If the authorities want to fight that, I guess I would seek refugee status in Texas.

  36. [Rolling eyes icon] “Hand cannon” and “immensely powerful handgun”. .357 is neither of those, although still quite adequate for its intended purpose (and no it won’t lift the engine block out of chevy, despite the ’60s hyperbole. Clint’s “make my day” .44 magnum is another story however.) A variant of the .38 special (which is not .38 cal, but .358), it came along to add a bit more oomph to the .38 special service revolver, since it took a little more effort with a .38 to stop an assailant then was comfortable. Most .357 magnums will also shoot .38 special cartridges when you’re hungover and not up for the extra recoil.
    In any case, dude’s still gonna have elbow issues unless he’s fat, and it just caught some saggy flesh. Good for granny.

  37. 1) Way to go Grandma! Draw and fire from a wheelchair during an assault, that’s hard core. Hit the target too, that’s some serious kung fu. Too bad she didn’t double tap him. As Richard says above, “He needed killin’.
    2) Agree with Skip, that guy’s elbow is pretty much done for. If she hit the bone, he’s looking at a joint replacement. If she didn’t, she was probably loading hollow points so there’s lots of lovely soft tissue damage which is going to hurt every day for the rest of his probably short life. Beauty payback on him for being such an A-hole, bet he doesn’t rip off any more old ladies with that arm. (
    Note to gung-ho self defenders, never shoot anybody unless they REALLY need killin’, because the consequences of a mistake are grave.)
    3) In Canada this lady would be looking at 100% guaranteed attempted murder charge with probable weapons charges. Even if justice prevailed and she escaped prison she would be financially ruined by lawyer’s fees.
    When in Canada, it is important to remember the government is much more dangerous than a two bit mugger. Better to lose the chain and take the beating.
    4) We should really fix that whole government thing, eh? Listening, Conservative Party of Canada?

  38. Yeah i guess this stupid mugger thought the old lady would be easy picking but ends us with abullet in his arm now they should aputate both his legs and make him use awheelcahir for the rest of his life

  39. for all you george dubya et al fans,
    the margolis editorial of august 20:
    For a leader who styles himself “the war president,” U.S. Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush’s military record now stands at 0 for 4. Even Italy’s born-again “imperial Roman conqueror,” Benito Mussolini, fared better.
    – Fiasco I: Five years after Bush ordered Afghanistan invaded and proclaimed “total victory,” U.S. and allied forces are fighting a losing war against Afghan resistance groups. Afghan heroin exports are up 90%. The U.S. just quietly deployed thousands more troops to Afghanistan to hunt Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in a desperate attempt to save Republicans from getting clobbered in November midterm elections.
    – Fiasco II: “Mission accomplished” in Iraq. Bush’s war in Iraq is clearly lost, but few dare admit it. The U.S. has spent $300 billion on Afghanistan and Iraq, with nothing to show but bloody chaos, deficits, body bags, and growing hatred of America. The Bush/Dick Cheney “liberation” of Iraq has now cost more than the Vietnam War.
    – Fiasco III: The White House had the CIA and Pentagon spend tens of millions bribing Somali warlords to fight Islamist reformers trying to bring law and order to their strife-ravaged nation. The Islamists whipped CIA-backed warlords and ran them out of Somalia. Following this defeat, the U.S. is now urging ally Ethiopia — shades of Lebanon — to invade Somalia, thus raising the threat of a wider war between Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. Good work, Mr. President.
    – Fiasco IV: Bush and Vice President Cheney egged Israel into the hugely destructive but militarily fruitless war in Lebanon over the past month, in what many view as the first part of their long-nurtured plan to militarily crush Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. They did their best to thwart world efforts to halt the conflict.
    To Washington and London’s shock and awe, Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria emerged the war’s victors. Hezbollah is now the Muslim world’s new hero after battling Israel’s mighty armed forces to a humiliating draw.
    Hezbollah’s victory put the kibosh on the Bush/Cheney Holy Land crusade.
    No sooner had bombing stopped last week than Hezbollah bulldozers were busy clearing rubble, and Hezbollah social workers resettling refugees. Perhaps Bush should ask Hezbollah to take over rebuilding New Orleans.
    Israelis have now turned from fighting Arabs to furious finger-pointing. Politicians and generals are blaming each other for the Lebanon debacle that killed 118 Israeli soldiers and 41 Israeli civilians, cost at least $1 billion, ruined the summer tourist trade, and, after a burst of initial sympathy, brought worldwide condemnation. And no captured soldiers — the war’s supposed objective — have been yet returned.
    Still, a swap of Israeli prisoners for Lebanese and Palestinian ones remains likely, as this column predicted at the war’s beginning. The killing of 1,000 Lebanese civilians, a million Lebanese and Israelis made refugees, and billions in wanton destruction, could all have been avoided.
    ROUTINE SKIRMISH
    By turning a routine skirmish into a big war, Israel’s PM Ehud Olmert showed he had no more grasp of military affairs than those other amateur warlords, Bush, Cheney and British PM Tony Blair.
    Even Washington hawks are wondering if invading Iran may not be such a cakewalk as they envision. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards helped train and arm Hezbollah’s fighters.
    America was the big loser in the Lebanon war. From Morocco to Indonesia, each night some 1.5 billion Muslims watched the carnage in Lebanon on TV and most blamed America. Even the poorest shepherd in Uzbekistan heard that the U.S. was airlifting the precision bombs and deadly cluster munitions to Israel that wound up killing hundreds of Lebanese.
    Any hope of damping down the Islamic world’s surging hatred of the U.S., Britain, and Israel (and now Canada, thanks to the federal government’s pro-Israel stance) was killed in Lebanon.
    Even the interestingly-timed airport hysteria in London over claims of liquid bomb plots failed to divert attention from the latest egregious U.S.-British Mideast policy disaster.
    The “war president” has become the fiasco president. The White House should stop listening to bogus military advice from neocon couch commandos who thirst for Muslim blood, and start listening to experienced Pentagon officers who understand the meaning and cost of war.

  43. do you deny heroin exports are up in afghanistan?
    do you deny the cost of iraq war now exceeds 300,000,000,000 dollars?
    do you deny the somali warlords got their butts kicked?
    do you deny the recent conflict in lebanon is a replay of the tet offensive in viet nam, constituting a tactical defeat but moral and psychological huge victory for hezbollah?
    do you deny that bush hasnt a clue how to justify, engage and conduct a war despite his claims to be a ‘war president’?
    so what is it you have against the likes of margolis or anyone that points out these high quality criticisms?

  44. Hey Schmuck, stick to the subject.You don’t own this site, you know. Some of us like to be able to actually read others’ opinions concerning THE SUBJECT OF THE POST! Not some cockamammie crap that has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
    PS
    Margolis is an asshole.

  45. Schmuk: In N.O before any rebuilding etc. one must have numerous permits, meetings, plans, polls, insurance adjusters, etc. In Lebonon they just do it. Wonder where all that american money come from. Three cheers for granny. And yes, in Canada she would be charged, and the taliban jack people would ask for donations to pay the legal fees of the mugger.

  46. looks like schmuckbaby is the newest resident troll, wonder what it’s real name is…schmuck works in a pinch tho

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