Wonkette
This Gillibrand character, the new fake Hillary Clinton, loves guns, which is fine. However, she recently revealed that she kept her two rifles under her bed, and once all the burglars in New York read in the paper where she kept her guns she had to move them so that they would not be stolen.
Gun control advocates seized this opportunity to get all lecturey about how you shouldn’t keep your guns under your bed anyhow, because your little childrens can get at them and shoot each other. A better approach, of course, is to ditch the guns and sleep with a pirate’s dagger under your pillow. Low tech and effective! And in the meantime, gun owners, just move that shotgun to the top shelf of your closet — on top of your Playboy archives — where it will be completely inaccessible to you and to home invaders.
Gillibrand removes guns from under bed [Newsday]
It’s a good thing she didn’t tell everyone where she keeps her Hitachi Magic Wand ‘back massager,’ although like most lady senators, she’s got her own ‘advance man’ to carry that back and forth for her.
Smart move. Those gangs of roving mutant hobos wouldn’t hesitate to enter a home where the owners have declared in print that they are heavily armed.
Go away lady.
Semms like she is trying really hard to limit her stint as a senator to two years.
Get a dog. Rifles are just for shooting wolves from helicopters.
I have an old .22 rifle somewhere; haven’t a clue where.
Someday one of my kids is going to find it, and drag it out and ask me, “Daddy, what’s this thing?”
Sure hope I took all the bullets out of it before I put it away.
She is an idiot. This woman has small children. Jeebus. Anyone who keeps a gun in the home for “personal protection” is lying to himself. Guns are fine. With trigger locks. In a gun cabinet. Unloaded. Preferrably with no ammo in the house. Keep a loaded gun under your bed, and you pretty much are asking your child to find it and shoot someone or himself accidentally. And don’t get me started on the burglar thing. Right, you are going to wake up, be fully alert, jump out of bed, and be able to judge that this person is an armed threat you, and if yes, shoot him accurately enough to disable him–all this in a matter of moments. She is an idiot.
To quote Larry Niven, “A knife always works.”
Why didn’t she post this info on twitter?
TGY: I, personally, think we need to get back to mowing down herds of buffalo with Gatlin guns from moving trains.
…TRANSLATION: Her 3 foot long, grooved & ribbed, diesel powered, 6 speed, self lubricating, industrial strength vibrator!
Whoever said Dems were a bunch of pussies never heard of Miss Gillibrand, the badass of the big apple.
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/2009/02/move-over-plaxico-this-gals-got-aim.html
The more I read about this women the more I irrationally despise her. Grrr. I’ll have to send McCarthy some money when the time comes and consider it therapy.
But back to the gunz. I bet she thinks her comments make her fetchin’, charmin’, and cute also.
She must be dumber than a box of rocks.
…guns don’t kill people! Retarded senators that keep loaded weapons underneath their mattresses kills people!
AngryBlakGuy: exactly, and that vibrator description sends chills, of horror, down my spine. I picture these sorts of things http://www.csunitec.com/drills/coredrill.html
Yay! The Dems have their Sarah Palin!
I have a tec-9 an RPG under my bed. The kids love it. They showed it to the other kids in the neighborhood and now nobody messes with their big wheels.
I ascribe to the Dwight Shroot method of armory: an assortment of deadly weapons, stashed randomly, yet strategically throughout my
apartmentmansion.soytrucknutz: Her staff calls it “the football.” It’s a fucking golden thing, and she’s not going to give it away, also.
Judas Peckerwood: not until one of her children gets knocked up.
Guns don’t kill people, bullets do. Generally when fired from guns. Or when thrown by super-strong comic-book villains. My point is: death.
I’m all for protection but 2 rifles? Who is she expecting, the Vietcong? Injuns?
Doglessliberal: Yes, but just try and explain to a gun lover that statistically speaking they, or a friend or family member, are like 1000% more likely to get shot than an intruder and they will patiently explain to you that only dumb gun owners have stuff like that happen. THEY of course will completely have their wits about them at all times, and their kids would never do anything stupid.
I had a coworker from Texas who absolutely refused to believe me when I asserted that Texas (and the south in general) had more murders per capita than NY or NJ. After I sent her the DOJ link with the stats to prove it, she didn’t talk to me for days. Puncturing people’s cherished illusions makes them cranky.
Doglessliberal: To be fair, her guns weren’t loaded, and they were in some sort of a locked case. So she is not half the idiot that many people are.
Sara K. Smith: That said, “half the idiot many people are” still gets awfully close to full retard.
Speaking as a former child who, at two and half years old, actually DID find a gun under a bed and wandered, waving it around, into the horrified owner’s living room: pandering to the NRA may be the single suckiest thing a U.S. politician can do.
CorkPopper: As a gun owner I’m not embarrased to say that I trust my alarm system more than my aim. Plus, everything is locked up in the gun safes and it takes me like 10 minutes to get them unlocked as I can’t remember which keys go to which. And besides, I shoot trap, so unless that burglar is flying through the air in my house I am not going to hit him.
There’s nothing more useless than an unloaded gun.
Yeah, you have to lock things up if you’ve got kids in the house. But for people without kids and/or drunken, abusive domestic partners, there’s no problem keeping a loaded gun for protection, provided you store it without a round in the firing chamber itself.
I guess she never saw that very special episode of 90210. Go ask David Silver what happened!!
[re=245429]Bucky Katt[/ “there’s nothing more useless gun” oh i don’t know. reminds me of mr eastwoods line “feelin lucky, punk”
Double Scorpion:
Zanax fueled monkeys
arewethereyet: fricken gin is kicking in! “there is nothing more useless than an unloaded gun” the rest is the same. someone changed the letters on my keyboard all around!!
pondscum: And besides, I shoot trap, so unless that burglar is flying through the air in my house I am not going to hit him.
And even then, only about 1/2 the time, right?
Doglessliberal: Bucky Katt: pondscum: Exactly. If you want a gun for protection, you have practice with it on the pistol range, and keep it loaded, in your nightstand, with the safety off. I even heard some wingnut talk radio dweeb who claims to have been a CIA agent say: if you’re going to bring out your gun to protect yourself, you better just use it and not imagine that whatever crazed crackhead has just broken into your house is going to negotiate rationally with you.
Better to just brain him with a pair of rusty TruckNutz.
Double Scorpion: Hobo bean bandits
Considering the number of her available orifices, that many rifles under the bed sounds like a pretty moderate number. 3 would be overdoing it, as I would be concerned for her ability to maintain an open passage way for breathing.
me lub guns. back when jebus horse dinosaurs didnut hab guns, it got scary. then indyans had arrows but god peeple shot them and had nice blankets for dem. dah blak peeple not hab gums so they had to wurk cottun. libruls doan hab gums so we ride jebus horse dinos to shoot dem too.
Rifles under your bed? In close quarters, a rifle is a bad choice for personal protection. Under your bed is awkward, too. A nice handgun is good, preferably 9mm, which most women can handle. An unloaded gun is useless for personal protection. I grew up in a house where all handguns were loaded. My father did this so that we would all know that there was no such thing as an “unloaded” gun or “safe” gun. Knowing that, none of us messed with his guns.
A handgun is also a less than desirable choice for home protection. Your best bet is a short pump shotgun, loaded with game shot. Easier to hit your target, far more lethal at short range and less likely to tear through the walls and kill someone in the next room. Again, leave the firing chamber empty and load the magazine - you can quickly rack a round when need be and avoid possible tragedies from accidental discharges.
lovethebomb: nize.
Lascauxcaveman: 3/4 of the time. I’m generally right around 19/20 of 25.
What’s so unusual about that? Everybody keeps guns around the house. Shotguns are best for home protection; rifles penetrate too far, handguns are difficult for most people to shoot accuratly.