How ironic the DU members, who tend to HATE gun toters, are now defending the gun toting mom!

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41. Yes, she probably

should have shot the bastard. As you put it: "If nothing else, there would be one less misogynistic asshole in the world."

...cracking down on dumb assess who shoot in the air on New Years."

is yet another law that fails to protect women. There is not a soul who believes she was shooting in the air for fun.

And I believe most women think a bit differently than gun loving men, especially abused women. She probably weighed all the options in a split second and made the decision to try to save all their lives by firing the warning shot to let him know she was serious. I don't know many women who would just shoot the man who fathered their child if trying something less violent/permanent might decompress the situation. Again, I repeat, especially when it comes to abused women.

When we've been battered so many prior times and lived through it, there are always questions. How bad will it be this time? Will this be the time he actually succeeds and kills me? Or will he only crack my skull open like he did the last time? It took my first husband actually hitting my little baby's hands (because she was in my arms holding me tight and there was no way to turn without exposing some part of her) for me to run out the door and get away on a plane. Had there been a gun? I don't know that I could have shot him for threatening just me. For my daughter, quite probably. But if I thought a warning shot would save us all, no matter what the laws, I would probably have tried it.

How ridiculous is it to even think I should kill someone when there might be a safer option? Besides, most of the women I've heard about, who do kill their abusers, end up with long prison sentences. It's a lose/lose for most women. And for minority women it seems they lose every time.

Stand Your ground laws are for men with the right skin tone.
For most everyone else they're more like Stand No Chance laws.