My month with a gun complete edition

That was probably just a stock photo. A copy editor for a paper that doesn't do anything with guns just ran a Google image search for "scary 9mm Glock," and that's what came up.
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Do you also believe she gave the gun to an artist, a polymer Glock, who melted it down and turned it into art? Don't tell me you buy that little lie?

Come on, there's enough here for me to believe that the entire thing is made up. Why not use a picture of the gun she actually purchased? Why not show us the "art" that was produced from the melt?

In fact, if you Google "gun purse x-ray" and switch to Images, it is the third picture that shows up.
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I know that. The whole little story is a cut&paste job. Nothing about it is real. There is no attempt to by the author of the story, or Yewman, to be factual at all.
 
You can believe what you want but you've got nothing to prove it except your opinion. As much as I disagree with Ms. Yewman, I'm not about to go down that road without some proof.
 
Accusing someone of being a liar because you don't like what she says is an attack on the person, not on her ideas. We have no evidence that Ms. Yewman made any of this up.

We don't do personal attacks here, so let's take this no further.
 
I'd just like to thank Closing The Gap for posting the link to the whole article. I was wondering how it came out. Thanks.

I've said enough about the author in the other threads.

I'm still puzzled why the original magaziine didn't publish the whole thing. They wanted publicity, they got it, they pushed it away.
 
Truly an interesting read. I find it interesting that a gun makes her afraid of her environment and fearful that she might have to use it for protection while not having a gun allows her to feel secure while ignoring her surroundings. Talk about burying your head in the sand.

She has confirmed that she will take no responsibility for her safety or that of her family and tries to sell that as "moral."

Overall, this was a smear piece designed to parrot the lies that the brady group has spread for years while trying to appear as an honest journal of her experience.
 
Dr Big Bird, I agree with your assessment.

If she had not had an agenda from the outset, one can wonder what the outcome might have been. Why, she might have seeked real training! But it also includes the possibility that Ms. Yewman might have concluded that a gun was not for her.

I am certain that most of us here know of someone who support your right to keep and bear arms, but simply do not want the responsibility that comes with a firearm.
 
the article gives me the impression she has never considered personal or home safety much. Repair men, answering the door late at night without identifying, a man in the stairwell... she takes her advice from Oprah's "expert".

Not much to the article except more anti gun bias as intended. Playing devils advocate, this article is worse than the first.
 
I find it funny that a lot of the things she viewed as scary are simply things that people who carry concealed are more aware of. To me, the only way any of that could have been scary is because she had no clue what she was doing.

I really don't have anything nice to say about her, so I'll keep my mouth shut about my personal opinions. That being said, I don't think there are many people who buy a gun for self defense, then never shoot it or so much as read the instruction manual. I'm willing to bet that people who buy a gun for carrying concealed are even less likely to do such a thing. I have no evidence, but I like to think that people aren't generally THAT dumb.

I'd also really like to know where she got some of her statistics. Her using a gun in self defense makes her 22 times more likely to have her gun used on her...how? The only way I can see this statistic working is if it is comparing a person who actually uses a gun in self defense is 22 times more likely to have their gun used against them than someone who doesn't use a gun at all. I think that the suicide/family killing statistic is similar. Of course people who don't own guns aren't shot with their own guns; they don't have any! In my mind, this is very similar to saying something akin to, "Owning a car makes you 57 times more likely to get in an accident while driving your car."
 
ALL magazine articles have an agenda. The editors solicit articles from their staff or stringers that they think would appeal to their demos (demographics). If they accept the article, they then edit said article to further appeal to their demos. They are NOT in the business of supplying objective information. They are in the business of selling magazines to "18-25 y/o unmarried females with a discretionary income of $xx" or whatever their particular reader base is.

I'm pretty confident that the demos for MS magazine tend to NOT be CCW carriers, hunters, LEOs, target shooters etc. They simply are not gun owners or gun fans. Substitute "CellPhone" or "Cologne" or "OnLine Dating Site" for every occurrance of "Gun" in the original article/blog and you'd have essentially the same thing.

She's not changing any minds, I'm sure. I'm even pretty confident that those that read her stuff aren't deciding "Well, that does it. I think all guns should be melted down". It's just a fluff piece read while you're waiting to get your acrylics filled. I KNOW. I read them while I wait for my acrylics to be filled..:cool:

"Eleven ways to turn your man on"
"Eleven places to have your gun melted down"


Sgt Lumpy
 
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