Beware: there’s a dingus with a gun out there
This link was on my Facebook thingie written by Heidi Yewman, one of those anti-gun nuts who think they can make a point by acting like their perception of people they don’t understand. Heidi, like I said, doesn’t like people owning guns, so she goes out and buys a gun and all of the attendant paperwork that goes along with that and then carries the gun in public. She’s such a ditz that she pulls over a cop to learn how to operate her gun, because she says she is going to “only do what is minimally required for permits, licensing, purchasing and carrying, and finally be prepared to use it for protecting myself at home or in public”. Now, I’m not sure where she lives, but she bought the gun with no training and strapped it on with no training. Like I said, she didn’t bother to ask the dealer how to use the gun she’s carrying, so she stopped a cop and asked him because she freaked out after she got home and took it out of the box – a Glock 9mm.
So the article opens with her sitting in Starbucks with her gun, shaking nervously near children, I guess because the gun might just jump out of the holster and start putting kids down on it’s own.
Her feeling is that everyone is just like her – no training on how to handle firearms and monstrously stupid. Responsible gun owners know or learn how to handle their firearm before they buy it, certainly before they carry it in public. No one tell Heidi this, because she won’t listen, but the NRA offers firearms safety classes.
Actually, I’ve read the article a couple of times and the only thing that I can figure Heidi wants to do is accidentally shoot someone because she’s doing her best in that regard. The thing is, there are millions of gun owners who carry a weapon in public who don’t shoot people everyday because they didn’t do “what is minimally required” to own the gun.
Heidi is an irresponsible twit who I hope doesn’t shoot herself, but that’s what she deserves.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Personal responsibility is on life support and her lame assed “expiriment” proves just that. You gotta love how open people are with skewing their own “expiriments” to prove their own goals or views. She’s going to cause serious harm and I hope to god that she gets rid of that firearm before this does happen.
@50 David My 1911 is striker fire, but I believe the trigger and the 3 safeties that Glock has actually make it condition one as soon as you chamber it?
According to the fellows at 1991forum yeah, glocks do count as condition 1 when carried chambered 😛 (http://forum.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=335991) had me going for a second!!! 🙂
She kinda reminds me of the DUer who proved the truthers right by not being able to burn chicken wire and a brick with Sterno.
I hope that someone instructed her in its operation by now! If not:
Step #1. Load gun
Step #2. Ensure safety is off
Step 3. Turn gun so the long part is facing you
Step #4. If right handed, put right thumb on that lever thingy. If left handed, put left thumb on that lever thingy.
Step. #5. Call 911 and tell PCO you need ambo or meat wagon
Step #6. With telephone line open, push thumb against that lever thingy
Wasn’t it one of the Brady Campain that was caught saying that they would lie and misrepresent the truth to get their gun ban, or am I thinking of someone else?
2/17 Air Cav: I think you need to put a “Warning – satire. Do not try this at home” disclaimer on that, amigo. This “fine individual” sounds like enough of a ditz that she might take you seriously.
Twist: you mean like this?
http://hematite.com/dragon/bradylies.html
Bobo–very true, but like where I spent most of my “yute” I don’t know too many people who carry concealed up here who aren’t already very familiar with how their weapons work and how to use them safely and responsibly.
Not to split any hairs within this fine discussion we gots going on here, but I’ll stick by my assertion that the Glock is a DA handgun. Most others feel the same way although Glock itself calls the design a “Safe Action Pistol” rather than DA. And I will also stick by my assertion that a Glock handgun, properly maintained, is completely safe with a round in the pipe.
I don’t travel much anymore, so I was shocked to see some of the comments above regarding lack of requirements for training prior to CCW issuance. That’s kind of scary to me, as Ms Douchebag clearly is a Menace2Society with her handgun in any condition other than completely unloaded. I know that in both VA and FL, I was required to show proof of training or a DD214 (I chose to show them both), get fingerprinted, and undergo a background check.
And she apparently WAS looking to carry concealed. I lifted this nugget from her article:
“Getting the permit to carry a concealed weapon was simple. I filled out a form, had my fingerprints taken for a background check and paid $56.50. No training required. It took far longer to get my dog a license.”
NHSparky-That’s because if you do something stupid with that pistol in someplace like Clarksville, NH, there isn’t much of anyplace to go to get fixed quickly.
Comment moderated and denied, hardly surprising. Guess she really does believe her ridiculous argument/experiment/point/crusade/psychotic rant/ignorance is more important than the safety of those around her. Dingbat. Didn’t even bother reading the owner’s manual.
On second thought, those around dingbat should be so fortunate she hasn’t figured out how to load it.
Bobo–and even if you do something stupid with it near Concord/Manchester, NH is still small enough someone’s dipshittedness will make the rounds to all the various gun shops very quickly.
My town’s Walmart doesn’t sell guns larger than a pellet gun, but the one in Conway had an AR-style rifle (among many others) in the case. Go figure.
@59 So you consider a glock be what .. condition 0 then? Mmmm explain more, I’m always eager to learn more, so please explain to me why you conisder it a DA (I guess because a trigger safety is really not .. a safety safety? personally glocks scare me because of that is like “is only on the trigger? errr .. oook … ok” so ended up going to the 1911s <3)
So split all the hairs at least I know I will be reading 🙂
Shaking at Starbucks, huh?
Sounds like she needs a man.
This woman is your typical idiot liberal activist. Dumb as a rock, and a bony assed skank to boot.
Fool.
Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I think our liberal pols, in California, have made “open carry” at Starbucks, or anyplace else, illegal.
According to the State of Washington, for a CCW she doesn’t need training, but the background check takes 30 days – oddly enough, she didn’t mention that.
Even here in backward-ass West Virginia, I needed eight hours of training, and the permit cost $100 for 5 years. I guess in Washington they figure that none of their residents are stupid enough to walk around with a concealed weapon without training. Dingus here has proved them wrong in that regard. I doubt she knows where the safety is on a Glock, even the LEO told her, she probably wasn’t paying attention. And you know that every time she handles the weapon, she has her finger on the safety lever anyway.
My comment also went to moderation:
“Hopefully her weapon is as empty as her head.”
@Fat Circles, she did something naughty and she knows it. Or at least, she thinks she did. You don’t get the shakes like that unless you expect to get caught doing something naughty.
Someone should find that silly woman and quietly persuade her to go get her money back for the handgun. She scares the crap out of me.
I just hope she realizes that she can actually KILL someone with that gun she bought, just like the “crazy gun-nuts.” It won’t come to heel like a pet dog, just because she’s a unicorn-and-skittles liberal.
Ex-PH2,
That’s my takeaway from this exercise.
“She scares the crap out of me.”
I don’t think it will end well.
All of the comments that are being allowed on the article are, of course, all by those that are part and parcel to her anti-gun way of thinking. It will then be used as an example for the anti-gunners that a full 90% of the country agrees with her, based on the comments to the article.
Of course, they make shit up as they go, too. Like this chucklehead stating this: “You are of course missing the point. The point is that with no training she could buy a gun and carry it. People buy guns for protection but if you own a gun it actually increases the likelihood that you or someone in your family will be killed. Less than 20% of people are shot by strangers. Fully 80% are killed by family members or friends.”
Now, I would really like to see where he gathered those statistics, but I wouldn’t want to smell them, because I’m pretty sure he pulled them out of his ass.
@67 you can’t even carry an unloaded weapon yes, it used to be legal as long as you didn’t have a magazine in the gun it would not count as “loaded”, not anymore … There is a guy trying hard to work it .. http://blog.californiarighttocarry.org/ but .. at this point not even the NRA is on it they just threw their hands in the air and say “you are Sh1t out of luck”
It’s been five hours now. My comment is still in moderation.
@52 – With a round up the spout is the closest you can get to condition 1, but C1 specifically states “with the manual safety engaged” – and her Glock is specifically stated not to have one. 1911 nomenclature does not 100% cross to Glocks.
And a 1911 is not, no way, never, described as “striker fired”. The firing pin in the slide is not a striker.
Lets not split hairs here, gentlemen….Glocks are for service/duty weapons, 1911’s are for fanboys, and the Smith and Wesson .375 Magnum revolver is for men. If you can’t solve your problem in six 1500fps semi hollow points, your problem should be solved with a rifle.
/smirks, Hits dirt in anticipation of incoming flames
All kidding about your inferior weaponry choices aside….This article is a sad statement on this young lady’s mindset….She’s willingly risking her and others lives because she chooses not to familiarize herself with her weapon. I wouldn’t drive a Formula One car without some training, nor would I try to fly a plane…yet with the money, I could buy either and jump in and try. Dangerous, and dumb, which is why we need never fear a civil war erupting between the right and left…..It would end quickly and badly, and we’d end up with a society like in Starship Troopers.
@77,
“It would end quickly and badly, and we’d end up with a society like in Starship Troopers.”
Yes,
Yes it would.
And use up a smidgen of the personal ammo stashes.
@65 – Paper bag, 12 pack, not even with yours 🙂
I dropped an email to the magazine to see if I can actually get in touch with Yewman (I don’t use Facebook). I’ll let you know what happens (if anything — notice I’m not holding my breath.)
My comment was “disappeared” on the Ms Blog article after 30 minutes in moderation.
I take that as a “non-concur”.
If she ends up hurting herself or others in order to prove her point by refusing any level of training, her article will be exhibit “A” in every civil and criminal trial. If you’re going to play stupid games, at least try to have some plausible deniability when the inevitable happens.
NHSparky – my gun shop of choice is/was Riley’s in Hooksett. Thankfully I got my stupid out before I started buying there.
H1 – that’s alright, they did decide to keep this gem there: “Such a false sense security. Exactly how would a person carrying a weapon keep some one else from taking the gun from them.? To carry a weapon should require one to know martial art”
@81 – mine too. I was pretty careful to keep it low key, but it was “disappeared” like a Soviet-era dissident.
Bobo and Sparky,
Village Gun Store,Whitefield NH.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Village-Gun-Store/147520048609513?fref=ts
Yes, that’s the Left’s idea of freedom of speech in action. They’re free to speak, and everyone else is free to listen.
I say give her free membership in the KWVA, sounds like she’d make a good recruiter
@76 Oh .. got it! cool cool ty for that info, so what I guess they are what? condition 0? no safety and chambered?
@77 hey hey look who you say fanboy!! *grabs his 15 1911 and goes crying on the corner* “is ok is ok he didn’t mean it .. is ok”
“There is nothing that can’t be solved by a Barret, 1000 yards and a .50 cal” huh? 😛
On a note I’ve been waiting for a S&W MP9 for 4 months, I know everyone hats California but for God’s sake sell us the guns!! 🙁 people just won’t sell the Cali armories so I guess I might endup picking up a Glock or an XD (The XD feels a little bit better in my hand but.. meh)
I just hope by the second week she realizes nothing happens she is fine and all the sudden she will panic as she realizes she likes it .. I wonder if she will even finish her “study”
There is a wide difference between can and should, one can take a kayak to the Columbia River and paddle out to Cape Disappointment without any training. But should one do that?
Same with this writer, even a modicum of training should have been taken.
But not required, I just don’t like being told to be certified.
Because sooner or later the requirements get ornery and only those with connections or power are the ones able to meet the requirements.
Wow, my comment disappeared into the moderation neverworld, too. One would almost think that Heidi and the twits are only interested in groupthink.
I left this:
She already failed her own criteria, thus failing her foolish “experiment”:
“I have four rules: Carry it with me at all times, follow the laws of my state, only do what is minimally required for permits, licensing, purchasing and carrying, and finally be prepared to use it for protecting myself at home or in public.”
Nothing about what she researched about any carry law in her state. Nothing about researching licensing in her state. But most grossly negligent, is she utterly failed to research any manner of training to “…be prepared to use it for protecting myself at home or in public.”
We can ONLY conclude she purposely set herself up for failure, or far worse, get herself or others injured or killed because she has a point to make about being anti-gun. She has absolutely endangered herself and the public she is carrying among.
Quick scenario: Sitting at Starbucks, all full of fear and rage at the gun on her hip, and a bad guy does indeed show up to do his natural best to break the law. NOW what is she going to do? She has the gun. She has the moral obligation to protect her fellow humans, with the best means available. BUT, she failed to take any training. She has no idea how her new gun works. She has no clue on what to do in this situation. She is now face to face with the bad guy who quickly realizes she has no intention of acting against him. He bashes her face in, steals her purse, grabs her expensive Latte, grabs a kid for a hostage, and casually walks out of the store knowing the ONE PERSON who had the tools and means to stop him…is sitting in a puddle of her own blood and urine, shaking in fear OF THE GUN ON HER HIP.
Sad. Just completely sad.
Isn’t it funny my comment didn’t make it past moderation…I guess she doesn’t want anyone telling her that she is an idiot for not getting training.
No worries. I’m sure we’ll here from her again:
“Police claim they ordered the deceased to the ground when she drew her weapon and pointed it in their direction”
also…”Police fired 134 rounds at her, 2 of which hit the deceased”
@91 I wish you cold hear me slow clapping .. PRICELESS … PRICELESS
I was moderated too.
@85–they’re just up the road from me. Never ceases to amaze me how many idiot tourists love it here but want to make it like their own little shitholes.
Know why you can’t get a blowjob in Mass between May and October? Cause all the cocksuckers are in Maine and NH.
No surprise, my comments there evaporated into thin air as well…
I have never trusted hammerless auto pistols. While the Glock is a good piece of machinery It is subject to discharge if mishandled. A Glock recently discharged when the trigger snagged on a folded over section of the holster in which it was being carried.
My wife an I both carry and a Colt Mustang was the first present I gave to her right after we were married. We went to the range and she learned to handle and shoot before we bought the gun. That training saved her life. That. and one well placed .40 cal Black Talon from a FireStar
It really is too bad that one stupid, rabid. anti gun, libtard can cause such a ruckus. Why does anyone listen to these people?
@91: Prescient.
@99: A Glock 22 was the first gun I ever bought, and it’s a solid piece of machinery – it was a police trade-in/refurb, and after a good 2-3Krds of mostly reloads, in the hard-recoiling .40, it’s still in flawless working order. But I have to admit, I have never been comfortable carrying or keeping it ready at home with one in the chamber. I know the internal and trigger safeties are supposed to be excellent. But the idea of no manual safety and a loaded chamber just scares the hell out of me.
Lady a little bit of infro for you. Warning, Lib curseword to follow. The NRA offers a Ladies training course for new firearms owners. Please take a class from them. Joe