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Self-defense in Brooklyn getting great press
The 63 year old grandfather who popped a burglar in Brooklyn is getting great and favorable coverage. Here's the New York Post, the the Wall Street Journal, and the Gothamist. The last end with:
"Goldstein's neighbors were relieved: One told the Post, "Hopefully, he'll make people think twice about coming here and knocking down doors," and another said, "As a person who's been an opponent of gun ownership, I'm glad he had one now.""
This is the type of story you'd never have seen in print a few years ago. Then it'd have been ignored or, if covered, had quotes from the burglar's family about how terrible it was. There is a quote from the burglar's mother, but it leaves the reader chuckling:
Maginat, who is at Brookdale Hospital, had eight prior arrests and was charged with robbery, criminal possession of a weapon and possession of burglar's tools. However his mother, a former auxiliary cop, told the Daily News that her son couldn't possibly be a burglar, "My son knows better than that."
Hat tip to Sixgun Sarah...
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Nick:
That is because the media if they mention it at all will drop it like a hot potato but if it is "criminal" they will drag it out forever. I am amazed that we did not see more sympathy for the Robber from them
More and more people are accepting lethal and non-lethal weapons as a means for self defense purposes and are believing in the "right to bare arms". You have to, in this crazy crime ridden world!
Gun ownership (and the willingness to use guns) contributes to "herd immunity" in roughly the same way that vaccines do.
Sadly, this event will slowly be forgotten. People seem to remember the best details of a criminal's actions, but are too easy to forget when good men triumph.