A frequent thing you read on the gun blogs and similar publications is that the sound of a shell being chambered into a shotgun will cause unavoidable fear. Its bullshit, just take your pump-gun to the range and see how many people run when you pipe that first round.
Still another thing we say is “The loudest sound is a “click” when we were expecing a “bang””. I think the shotgun rack follows this principle.
she says when the men ignored her barking pit bull and black lab, and broke through a kitchen door, she had no other choice but to chamber a round into the 12-gauge shotgun.
There’s perhaps no other sound that commands as much respect and fear. The young woman at the business end of that gun was home alone and prepared to protect herself.
It was a broad-daylight robbery that started with the robbers ringing the doorbell. The woman was home sick so she didn’t answer the door. Thinking nobody was home they broke in….finding out they were wrong and the woman at home had a shotgun they ran.
I betcha the shotgun rack was louder than the dogs barking or the door breaking because they didn’t expect that. If they DO expect a shotgun…best be prepared for them to not hear anything else…ever.
Oh and because you folks tolerate my abortion stance I must add this:
It’s the last thing two burglary suspects expected to hear when they broke into a Coon Rapids home. From within the house came the unmistakable sound of a pump shotgun. At the other end of that gun was a 22-year-old woman who is nine weeks pregnant.
That means she’s at the end of her fist trimester, which is that magical window where the thing in her belly goes from a “Lump of cells” that can be removed with as little concern as deciding to get a tummy tuck or any other cosmetic surgery, to a kinda-sorta-person (But they’d rather not discuss this at this point).
Why did the newspaper find it relevant that this 1st Trimester mother-to-be was indeed with child?
BTW already she sounds like she’s going to be a first-rate mother. Best wishes to her and her family!
h/t Maddmedic
“There’s perhaps no other sound that commands as much respect and fear. The young woman at the business end of that gun was home alone and prepared to protect herself.”
Wait, now I’m confused (which happens often enough to be my “normal” state). Why was she pointing the shotgun at herself? The “business end” of a shotgun is the part where the projectile(s) come out.
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Where is the party end!?!
Are you saying a shotgun is a mullet? Business in front and party in the back?
Yeah I notice that bit of bad writing. I won’t nit pick, he was attempting to use a colorful term to spice up the story and got it wrong.
Better than talking about “Glock Clips”, calling AR-15s “Assault Rifles”, or saying “12 caliber Rifle”
The other day I was talking about 9mm and my 40S&W and I called it a 40mm.
Now I want a 40mm.
“Why did the newspaper find it relevant that this 1st Trimester mother-to-be was indeed with child?”
Emotions and sensationalism – the same reason why I have a headline in my RSS news feed about how the cop killed at Virginia Tech was a vet and had five kids.
“Its bullshit, just take your pump-gun to the range and see how many people run when you pipe that first round. ”
It’s a little different when you’re not the intended target! 😉
You should try reading the (Red)Star and Tribune more often….their writers lean so far left they fall down constantly…
Although they did endorse Coleman – R (former democrat) over Franken – D (clown) in last election…