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« ATF's mtn for summary judgment denied in Red's Trading Post case | Main | Nomination of new ATF head: AP picks up on story »

An impressive letter to the editor

Posted by David Hardy · 25 January 2008 01:20 PM

About a battlfield convert, over at keepandbeararms.com.

UPDATE: James Rummel tries to run it to ground and says it pegs the needle on his BS detector.

· Self defense

8 Comments | Leave a comment

jlbraun | January 25, 2008 1:25 PM | Reply

Doesn't pass the smell test for me.

It reads like wishful thinking. Barring an actual name attached, I don't think the story is real. It's too pat.

Take a non-gunnie shooting, that does more for our cause than you will ever know.

Harold | January 25, 2008 3:02 PM | Reply

Not merely too pat, the woman has to be breathtakingly stupid (although that is known---and in every other way she seems to be and still be so...) to have continued to approach her vehicle once she realized the situation. They aren't called "Street Smarts" for nothing, else I might not have survived my years in college in the People's Republic of Massachusetts....

W. Bailey | January 25, 2008 7:20 PM | Reply

Yeah, the mea culpa gets piled pretty high, doesn't it? But maybe she just has no sense of shame.

ben | January 25, 2008 8:15 PM | Reply

It reads like wishful thinking. Barring an actual name attached, I don't think the story is real. It's too pat.

That's what I thought. Sounds like it's written about someone who knows more gun-nut jargon than a former anti.

Flash Gordon | January 26, 2008 6:29 AM | Reply

I started getting the creeps about half way through the letter, so am reassured to see that it seems to have had the same effect on others. I'm hesitant to believe this really happened, and I wonder what sort of person makes up a story like this.

HokiePundit | January 26, 2008 7:25 AM | Reply

Sadly, I have to agree with the commenters above. I think it was rescuer's line which finally sealed it for me.

James R. Rummel | January 26, 2008 5:49 PM | Reply

She says that she didn't get the phone number of the man who rescued her. Couldn't she get it off of the police report? Or did they just let some knife wielding scumbags who try to kidnap women with small children get away without calling the police? This happened at a McDonald's, and they have phones there. I've seen them!

She says that she was at the Million Mom March, where she saw Rosie. So this must have been the one in 2000. Eight years ago and her letter is just now getting attention? Or did she wait eight years before writing it?

She also says that she just bought a shotgun for home defense. If the letter isn't close to a decade old then she took her own sweet time after her experience to finally get around to it.

I'm with everyone else who expressed skepticism. Unless there are names and dates that can be matched to official records of the foiled assault (police reports for a start), then this letter just screams fraud.

James

whoCares | January 27, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply

Sheesh, where y'all been? That page first appeared 10/8/2000.

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