{"id":80416,"date":"2018-07-07T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80416"},"modified":"2018-07-07T10:33:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T14:33:37","slug":"christine-lavin-guns-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80416","title":{"rendered":"Christine Lavin; guns in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Fransisco Chronicle<\/a> publishes an opinion piece by Christine Lavin who claims that she was an editor at the Oakland, California Tribune. Before that she claims that she was a firearms instructor in Houston, Texas. I believed her up until she told the story about how she had to protect herself from some Texas rednecks who assaulted her with their pickup truck because of her bumpersticker;<\/p>\n

I thought the ramming was an accident. I didn\u2019t think there was any damage. It was 2:15 a.m. and I just wanted to get home. But then, the truck sped up and rammed me harder. An exit came up, and I took it. The pickup followed me and rammed me again. I pulled over.<\/p>\n

It dawned on me that whoever was behind me must not have liked my bumper sticker. Two guys got out of the pickup, and in the rearview mirror, I watched them marching up to my car.<\/p>\n

I opened my glove compartment, took out my Glock 17, and flipped off the safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See, that’s where she lost me – there is no safety on the Glock to “flip off”. The safety is a tiny lever on the trigger that disengages when the firer squeezes the trigger. But, hey, Christine is a firearms instructor, right?<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, the whole point of the story is summed up in this paragraph;<\/p>\n

President Trump started fanning the flames against the media before he even stepped into office, and I can\u2019t help but suspect that his rhetoric might have goaded Jarrod Ramos into walking into the Gazette\u2019s offices with a pump-action shotgun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Ramos had an ongoing dispute with the Gazette since the early days of the Obama Administration, but Trump pushed him over the edge. Nice stretch.<\/p>\n

Lavin was fired<\/a> from the Oakland paper in the mid-nineties because she was boinking a local city councilman, you know, one of the people she was supposed to be reporting about.<\/p>\n

She says that the folks in Annapolis should have a gun in their desk drawer – forgetting that gun ownership is restricted in Maryland, as it is in California these days – she probably couldn’t have a gun in her desk drawer in Oakland, either. The State provides security for it’s citizens, however imperfectly.<\/p>\n

But after the “safety flipped off” story, I don’t think I can believe anything she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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