Gun Control & RKBA

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts) Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:22 PM Feb 2014

'She wasn't scared a bit'

'She wasn't scared a bit': How girl ELEVEN grabbed gun and shot dead cougar that was stalking her brother, 13, outside their house

When Thomas White spotted a cougar approaching his teenage son outside their home in rural Washington state last week, there was only one thing to do - hand a gun to his 11-year-old daughter.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568771/Girl-11-shoots-cougar-following-brother-14-home-making-THIRD-mountain-cat-killed-one-week.html#ixzz2uY1oDCYq

Although when cougars do this sort of thing they're generally stalking drug dens. I think. Okay, I made that last part up.

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'She wasn't scared a bit' (Original Post) Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2014 OP

Shelby get your gun. Common Sense Party Feb 2014 #1

How many scrawny cougars have you wrassled? Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2014 #2

None. And I hope never to do so. Common Sense Party Feb 2014 #3

Start with belly rubs. Everything should be OK. You got this. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2014 #6

Filing in my "think about the children" folder. NYC_SKP Feb 2014 #4

A little amusing. When in extremis, Shelby gets the duty Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #5

Common Sense Party

(14,139 posts)

1. Shelby get your gun.

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:28 PM

Feb 2014

That was a scrawny cougar.

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

2. How many scrawny cougars have you wrassled?

Reply to Common Sense Party (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:30 PM

Feb 2014

Common Sense Party

(14,139 posts)

3. None. And I hope never to do so.

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 02:31 PM

Feb 2014

They're the hungriest.

Nuclear Unicorn

(19,497 posts)

6. Start with belly rubs. Everything should be OK. You got this.

Reply to Common Sense Party (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 11:34 PM

Feb 2014

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)

4. Filing in my "think about the children" folder.

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 10:14 PM

Feb 2014

Except that in this case they are actually children, not the convenient "new" definition of child (remind me, is it 0-25 years old now?) used in "studies".

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

5. A little amusing. When in extremis, Shelby gets the duty

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Original post)

Thu Feb 27, 2014, 11:19 PM

Feb 2014

because she had a permit!

In Texas, cougars are considered vermin, and there is no regulated sport hunting.

Sounds like these cats ran out of prey in their territories and were going for what was available: Us. I've always supported wolf and big cat re-introduction... and the hunting/management that goes with it.

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