A man broke in and she couldn't get to her gun in time.

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/11/1430745/-A-man-broke-in-and-she-couldn-t-get-to-her-gun-in-time

Dolley owns a gun, but when she went to grab it, she opened the wrong drawer in the chaos of the moment. So she reached for her ninjato — which is a sword used in the Japanese feudal period.

She held the man at sword point until police arrived minutes later.

Obviously I posted this because she experienced what I consider to be another, less-discussed reality of owning a gun for self-protection: in the very nano-second you need it, it's not there. Doesn't matter if it's in a safe, your purse, a briefcase, a cereal box, wherever - when the shit hits the fan you probably aren't going to have it in your hand. I am doing good to keep up with my damned phone.

This lady, again, was trained, she has practiced and she has fought. Your training is always with you. Always. This is why I hawk training and self-defense so much.

Early in her SCA experience she did poorly because she didn't want to hurt anybody and that just allowed her opponents to win. She got over it and now teaches self-defense classes.

And yes, I know, nothing makes any sense to the gun demographic. I don't care.

We don't write for them anymore: we write for the people who want change in gun laws so that this country's public spaces are a bit safer. Gun culture won't 'get it' in large part because they don't want to. They are addicted to that gun and the kaleidoscope of fantasies it provides for them and apparently ANYTHING done to save lives, no matter how small is just intolerable and a slippery slope to somewhere... unsure where.