Update with MSNBC video at bottom of post
You can’t make this stuff up, folks!
As most NewsBusters readers are aware, the media have been foaming at the mouth this week for Congress to advance stronger gun control laws in the wake of the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
As a result, this absolutely delightful feel-good story about an 82-year-old former Miss America that defended her farm in Kentucky with a lil ol’ .38 caliber handgun is sure to be ignored by a media more interested in advancing an agenda than doing their job as disseminators of information.
As marvelously reported by the Associated Press Saturday (h/t NB reader Sherrie Z):
Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder.
Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a storage building where thieves had previously made off with old farm equipment.
Ramey said the man told her he would leave. "I said, 'Oh, no you won't,' and I shot their tires so they couldn't leave," Ramey said.
She had to balance on her walker as she pulled out a snub-nosed .38-caliber handgun.
"I didn't even think twice. I just went and did it," she said. "If they'd even dared come close to me, they'd be 6 feet under by now."
Amazing. The article wonderfully concluded:
After winning the pageant with her singing, dancing and comedic talents, Ramey sold war bonds and her picture was adorned on a B-17 that made missions over Germany in World War II, according to the Miss America Web site.
Brava, Venus. Brava!
Update (Ken Shepherd | April 23, 11:08): MSNBC's Amy Robach did a brief item on this shortly after 9 a.m. this morning. Video: Real (1,196 kB) or Windows (1,356 kB), plus MP3 (197 kB).
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That's a beautiful story :-)
April 23, 2007 - 00:44 ET by mostlymoderateThat's a beautiful story :-) Just imagine how low the crime-rate would be if more people carried a handgun. I know that sounds like a radical idea; however, I firmly believe it to be true. In my opinion, to expect the "police" to protect you is a communist idea in and of itself.
I agree how can we expect the
April 23, 2007 - 01:46 ET by seth_kegleyI agree how can we expect the Government to protect us and keep us safe when time and time again the Bureaucracy has failed... I think this is what the "Founders" reasoned when they put this in the Bill of Rights... they knew that the government could not protect citizens all the time... what was the biggest threat to the young Republic during that time? Native Americans... each citizen had to protect their land and families from Indians so to deny all guns was fool-hardy... much like denying all guns when psychotic, drugged up, criminals roam our streets... our police do all they can, but they can never be everywhere all the time... unless we want the Gestapo... its the SECOND amendment for a reason it obviously had a lot of importance to them as did Freedom of Speech....
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"... its the SECOND am
April 23, 2007 - 02:48 ET by Indiana Joe"... its the SECOND amendment for a reason it obviously had a lot of importance to them as did Freedom of Speech...."
It's too bad they didn't make it the First Amendment. Then, the preamble could have gone something like, "In order to guarantee the rights enumerated in ALL these amendments, the right of the people... "
THAT would have stopped all these silly "militia" gyrations modern anti-gunners go through in order to try to disarm us.
Good for her!
April 23, 2007 - 01:58 ET byGood for her!
Too bad for VT
April 23, 2007 - 03:32 ET by SportPoliticsToo bad for VT Ramey wasn't around.
lol- An 82 year old woman with more cahunas than a large portion of the VT campus. A gem soon forgotten, and less and less emulated, principles of conduct tossed aside for societies vanities of the errant do-gooders and courtroom corruptions.
They cowered under their desks, hoping they wouldn't be next, while he reloaded...
If they were allowed to hav
April 23, 2007 - 06:18 ET by USMC1776If they were allowed to have guns, they might have had the opportunity to prove they had sack. Strict gun laws only prevent Law abiding citizens from defending themselves.
The rules apply only to those who are willing to follow them.
Did you read some of the accounts
April 23, 2007 - 15:33 ET by SportPoliticsDid you read some of the accounts? One teacher hid under the desk, staring into a female students eyes, as they both heard each classmate get picked off, one by one, with time in between for reloading... in the end they were the only two who stood up.
"Into my cold, arthritic, han
April 23, 2007 - 04:10 ET by old cro"Into my cold, arthritic, hands". I could kiss this "pistol packin granma". Plus, she was probably the last sight of some Lutwaff fool protecting the "motherland". Priceless!
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non ["something essential" lit. "without which not"] for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police."
-- Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938
In Kentucky we learn how to s
April 23, 2007 - 05:50 ET by ltcolusmcretIn Kentucky we learn how to shoot at an early age, and gun control is putting all rounds on target.
Now that is the sort of gun c
April 23, 2007 - 06:43 ET by Dave RNow that is the sort of gun control I support. :-)
This republic will not survive the continued neglect of its people.- Neal Boortz.
..... yet another reason to b
April 23, 2007 - 08:29 ET by Ky. Horse Lady..... yet another reason to be proud to live in the wonderful state of Kentucky!
But the guys were good guys.
April 23, 2007 - 09:55 ET by danboBut the guys were good guys. And they were polite. They offered to leave.
But that mean ole woman wouldn't let them go.
Added to the pizza guy. 2 scores for the good guys/ladies.
Maybe they should hire Ms Ramey to protect a few schools.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H.L. Mencken
(Repeat post from UK thread
April 23, 2007 - 10:02 ET by Wolfrem(Repeat post from UK thread. Fits here as well.)
According to an article in The Scotsman this morning, murders by knife are on the rise.
I found this line sounding quite familiar: (12th paragraph down)
"These figures show that Scotland is not the safer place that the
Lib/Lab coalition pretended it was. Far too few police on the beat and
the continued scandal of automatic early release have both served to
make Scotland a more dangerous place, not a safer one."
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana
...and quite the hottie she w
April 23, 2007 - 13:07 ET by The Real Tony...and quite the hottie she was too!!!
A true and proud American!!
Fight Terrorism at home - defeat a liberal!
Media bias -- perfect example (hundreds of examples actually)
April 23, 2007 - 13:08 ET by w0tmReading the many rewrites of the original story published in hundreds of newspapers and Internet news on what most would consider a non-political story is quite eye-opening. Or would be eye-opening for those who don't believe "group hug journalism majors eager to save the world" copy editors don't add bias to everything their keyboards are allowed to touch. Read the story in the NY Times and Yahoo on-line news then the full (as originally written) story on NewsMax. The changes are ever so suttle but ever so blantantly biased.
"Propaganda that is recognized as propaganda is not propaganda" Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's Minister of Propaganda and Culture).
Right to Bear Arms
April 23, 2007 - 13:21 ET by NortoBeliever
Interesting that one of the most liberal of all stated, Vermont, is the ONLY state not to require a permit and it has the lowest crime rate! Duh