Brady Campaign Board Member Gets CCW

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http://msmagazine.com/blog/2013/06/12/my-month-with-a-gun-week-one/

Heidi Yewman of the Brady Campaign has obtained a CCW and a Glock and is blogging about her experience. Her intent is to show how dangerously unregulated firearms are - apparently by purposely choosing to remain ignorant of even the basic concepts of firearm safety but while carrying her Glock everywhere.

Yewman, who led opposition to Starbuck's allowing perfectly law-abiding citizens to carry in their stores in accordance with state open carry laws takes her Glock into Starbucks - after she decides to figure out whether or not her Glock was loaded by stopping a policeman going through his daily duties and asking him to check it for her. Apparently unable to find actual gunowners who fit her stereotype, Yewman has decided to become the ignorant, unsafe gunowner she sees in her mind in order to show that more laws are necessary.
 
Beyond my strong desire to insult this woman, which I will try to refrain from, what in the world was she thinking? While I have no hard evidence or statistics to back this statement up, I'd wager that the vast majority of gun owners who carry concealed do not have this woman's mindset.

Why in the world would you buy anything without knowing how to use it? This doesn't only apply to guns, but everything. At the very least, she could have read the manual to safely know how to handle her nameless 9mm Glock. Sure, you could argue that it is perfectly legal to do what she is doing, but I do not know of a single rational human being who would do the same.

I might be going out on a limb here, but I think most people have a permit to carry concealed for protection. What sort of reasonable protection could anything give you if you are completely ignorant of how to operate it?

I honestly don't even care if she has formal training (although she should definitely get it), but she needs to be comfortable and knowledgeable with what is on her hip before she even considers bringing it anywhere with her.
 
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I needed help. I drove to where a police officer had pulled over another driver. Now, writing this, I realize that rolling up on an on-duty cop with a handgun in tow might not have been fully thought through.
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Wow, that was bright.

In any case, her motives are fairly suspect.

Today, they have a woman with absolutely no firearms training and a Glock on her hip sitting within arm’s reach of small children, her hands shaking and adrenaline surging.
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So, basically she's turned herself into every stereotype she was protesting. She's a danger to herself and others, and she knows it.

I'm just not processing the logic here.
 
My comments are awaiting moderation.

Use of sarcasm helped me maintain my cool. I have a feeling it still won't pass moderation. If it gets axed, I'll try again.

weirdly enough, this is the second time I've gotten into it over something in Ms magazine and I don't even read that crap.

Also, based on the pic, I guessed G26. I hope it's right and freaks someone out.
 
Any idiot can buy a gun and carry it. Just watch me.

Unfortunately, she makes the point clear that she is just such an idiot. Idiots are capable of doing a lot of things they are not really qualified for. Driving, blogging, voting, and the list goes on. People doing things they are not trained or qualified to do puts people in danger in many aspects of life. Should the state require voters to pass a qualification requirement other than registering to vote, write or speak publicly, have children? Well, hey, if it saves just one life........ Or shouldn't adults be expected to be responsible on their own?

She's a danger to herself and others,
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I edit this to ask, How much of a danger is she with an empty gun? Did she draw the gun? I do not see the danger, except if she had needed to use the gun and did not know how. What is dangerous is her thinking and "journalism".
 
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I needed help. I drove to where a police officer had pulled over another driver. Now, writing this, I realize that rolling up on an on-duty cop with a handgun in tow might not have been fully thought through.
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Speaking from experience, there is nothing unusual at all about someone coming up to an officer they saw doing a traffic stop. Its unfortunate, but its come to be expected, at least with me. Folks don't think things through...

This person should have thought things through more beforehand. In several ways.
 
So, basically she's turned herself into every stereotype she was protesting. She's a danger to herself and others, and she knows it.

I'm just not processing the logic here.
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Tom
FWIW, there is very little, if any logic in the minds of these types of people.
 
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So, basically she's turned herself into every stereotype she was protesting. She's a danger to herself and others, and she knows it.

I'm just not processing the logic here.
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shortwave nailed it before I could comment.
 
So if this person has not hurt anyone in the 30 specified days she is carrying the weapon she is going to admit we were right, and she was wrong, about a weapon being inherently harmful right?

She is also going to be honest and admit that at even her deliberately low level of knowledge the gun simply being around without being drawn was no danger to herself or others correct?

Mods, these are not meant as sarcastic questions, just rhetorical ones.

As long as the tragedy that this person is creating the conditions for purposely does not occur, she will have very clearly proved our points, not hers.

I will be very curious to see how she manages to explain this away in the follow-up article.
 
I will be very curious to see how she manages to explain this away in the follow-up article.
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If nothing happens, I doubt there will be a follow-up article.

If she hurts herself, that proves guns are unsafe and people shouldn't carry them. If nothing happens, it proves that there's really no need to carry a firearm. The way in which she's set it up is manipulative, dishonest, and intellectually lazy.
 
Just... wow. I never post comments on blogs, but -- I guess I can't say that any more. That level of irresponsibility is mind-boggling.

The best thing I can say about it is that Ms. Magazine is putting up a lot of sensible comments from responsible gun owners, and the tame anti-gunner who is trying to refute them is having a very hard time.

I put in a plug for The Cornered Cat. I'll be interested to see if they edit it out of my comment. :cool:
 
I hope that if she's right (:rolleyes:) and she does hurt somebody with the gun, she is punished with a generous extent of the law. She's going out and arming herself purposely with no training or idea how to handle a gun with the intent to show that it can be harmful. I can't think of a better piece of info for a prosecuting attorney.

Even better would be if she successfully used it to stop a rape, murder, carjacking, or other forcible felony. I wonder what she would have to say about it then?
 
Just imagine this... Tired, sweaty, young Police Officer, traffic stop, tap on shoulder, woman with Glock pistol in hand, pointing at his precious right foot!

"Holy Crap!" comes to mind, Woman in stylish bracelets, in back of a Police car!
 
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Staggering stupidity run rampant.

Even presented it to a cop? :rolleyes:
He should have locked her up for public endangerment.

She clearly has plenty of dimes to rub together, but not two brain cells.
 
So she is purposly being ignorant and negligent. Most places require a basic pistol course and demonstrate that you can basicly and properly handle and fire a handgun. Her asking the officer for help is a blatent lie if the state in question requires training.
 
So she is purposly being ignorant and negligent. Most places require a basic pistol course and demonstrate that you can basicly and properly handle and fire a handgun. Her asking the officer for help is a blatent lie if the state in question requires training.
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Um, no, thank God because this is still America.
 
Well in my state we do and so does the surrounding states. Not every state has the required training for CCW though.
 
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Umm... In this one, not so much.

We pretty much beleive it's the individual's responsibility to cover those issues.

We do have more and more people moving in who believe otherwise, but, so far, still free.

Not that I'm advocating such, but, does anyone know if using a potentially injurious tool, be it firearm, sling blade, or garden rake while purposely and willfully remaining ignorant is anywhere against the law? (Darwin's law excluded).

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What will she demonstrate is easy to do next?
Stick up a bank?
After all, there was an FBI source who said you could probably get away with holding up ONE bank, as long as you didn't repeat and set up an MO that could be followed.

Not as far fetched as you might think. It has been several years but a couple of New York reporters once demonstrated how easy it was to get fake ID in another state (Florida), buy a gun with it, and transport it back into a repressive jurisdiction. Pre-TSA scanners, so they took it undeclared on an airplane in the process.
But it was all right because they just wanted to prove it was possible to break multiple laws without getting caught red handed. They weren't going to do anything BAD.
 
Not that I'm advocating such, but, does anyone know if using a potentially injurious tool, be it firearm, sling blade, or garden rake while purposely and willfully remaining ignorant is anywhere against the law? (Darwin's law excluded).
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I don't know if it's against the law.
However her and others like her are why we have these nice little warning labels (do not place hands under mower deck while the mower is running) on our lawn mowers and such.

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Bob Hunter
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