Fellow Second Amendment Protectors, Make Room For Another Convert

I laugh when I see these stories and cases come up which are more and more frequent nowadays, as it seems hold up artists and street thugs become both more brazen and frequent as the average American walking around today is usually carrying at least several hundred dollars worth of booty. To this we owe thanks to today's multi function cellphones , Ipods and other expensive gadgetry not to mention jewelry and wallet or purse contents.

And that's just the elementary school aged kids!!

Lets not even mention the average adult who's tooling around in a car costing upwards of twenty thou plus dollars along with thousands in stereo equipment, computer equipment and the obligatory above mentioned accessories as well. It makes for a pretty easy living for the successful and ambitious crook.

Well, it seems that yet another bleeding heart liberal lawmaker has changed his anti gun tune after a life threatening run in with the very riff raff that he and his cohorts so often protect and defend in our lawmaking chambers (not theirs as they sometimes pretend) across the land left and right, (mostly left that is...lol)

That is until one of those "street entrepreneurs" (chicagoray vernacular) decides to walk into their lives one day or night leaving them with emotional scars or in many cases even worse than that. Just like what happened here in Ohio the other day to this liberal politico who fortunately escaped unharmed but was changed forever from his experience.....

Unarmed lawmaker mugged by reality

Opinion: Our View - Monday | county, sick, time - Gazette.com: " Irving Kristol once said, “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.” That certainly seems to be the case with former gun-control advocate Michael DeBose, an Ohio state legislator. DeBose’s epiphany was not a result of being mugged by reality, but by being mugged by a couple of gun-toting thugs in his own neighborhood.

DeBose told Gun Week, the periodical of The Second Amendment Foundation, that he was taking a walk around his quiet residential neighborhood on the evening of May 1 when he was accosted by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun. The unarmed DeBose took the only option available to him — he ran to a neighbor’s home and pounded on the door.

The hoodlums, apparently worried DeBose’s yelling would attract witnesses, jumped in their car and drove away. Long an advocate of stricter gun-control laws, DeBose, along with his wife and several neighbors, have since enrolled in classes to obtain concealed-carry permits. “If I’d had a weapon I could have defended myself,” said the ordained Baptist minister."

DeBose’s apparent conversion might not sit well with antigun colleagues, but as he said, “until someone has had a gun pulled on them and stuck in their face, (you can’t) put yourself in another’s place. . . . I just hope they’ll understand why I chose to change my mind.”

We wouldn’t wish getting mugged on anyone; being the victim of a violent crime is a terrifying experience. But we do hope other anti-firearms legislators can learn from DeBose’s experience and realize that people have a right to defend themselves and their loved ones. In a free society, the government shouldn’t prevent them from doing so.

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