Reinke Faces Life

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/08/BAGPDGKAG41.DTL&hw=joan%2Bryan&sn=003&sc=242
A woman, a batterer and a gun
Joan Ryan
Sunday, January 8, 2006
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Rebecca took out a life insurance policy on herself four years ago. She made her daughter the beneficiary. She was 51.
She believed that her husband was going to kill her. It was just a matter of time. She believes it still, even though she left him in 2001 and went underground through the California Confidential Address Program. She uses a phony address in Sacramento provided by the program (and is not using her real name for this column) to remain hidden.

Last summer, there were signs he had found her.

So Rebecca started carrying a gun inside a pouch in her purse.

What happened next is a sobering reminder of how the legal system is still struggling to understand the complex and vulnerable lives of battered women.

Rebecca had owned the gun since escaping from her husband. She bought it after the required 10-day waiting period and registered it in her name. She knew the police couldn’t always be around to protect her. A gun leveled the playing field against a man bigger and stronger than she was. Maybe it would save her from becoming one of the 1,300 people killed in the United States each year in domestic violence attacks.

One evening last August, Rebecca was making the long drive home from Mill Valley, where she had to drop off some papers for a client. She stopped at an Albertsons supermarket in Half Moon Bay. She paid for her groceries, picked up the shopping bag and her wallet but left her purse at the end of the checkout counter.

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More important, the conviction leaves Rebecca more vulnerable than ever to her abusive husband. For one, the district attorney’s office mistakenly included her actual street address on all its documents, which are public record. The office was scrambling on Friday to delete the information.

And two, she now has no protection. (I wonder whether San Francisco voters considered domestic violence situations when they voted in November to ban all handguns and what consequences women like Rebecca might pay.)

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Rebecca knows she made a big mistake in leaving her purse with a loaded gun at a public place. Her lapse was a potentially dangerous one; it should not be minimized. But how do we balance her mistake against the danger she faces every day from a violent man who left her crushed and fearful, whose beatings and threats drove her into hiding?

The law against carrying concealed guns makes good sense. But so many women every year are killed by their abusive boyfriends and husbands. Restraining orders, as we know, can’t stop them. The police often can’t stop them. I don’t know what the solution is. But something’s wrong when, in trying to keep herself alive, the terrorized woman becomes the criminal.

E-mail Joan Ryan at joanryan@sfchronicle.com.

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As you can gather, I don’t agree with just about anything in this article. BUT most especially the writer’s conclusion, “The law against carrying concealed guns makes good sense.” Aside from the fact that it abridges everyone’s second amendment rights. The dead old white guys recognized that it’s a dangerous world out there. It’s probably more dangerous now. Sam Colt made men and women equal. Aren’t we learning the lesson that criminals don’t obey laws. Make all the laws you want. It doesn’t’ stop squat. If the gummamint can’t keep drugs, weapons, and guns out of its own prisons, then how do you expect it to protect you? Don’t you see the protection you get from concealed carry even if you don’t carry? The criminals now have a target rich environment of unarmed people. They can attack the weakest and everyone else just is weaponless to stop them. If even just few of the weak are packing, then it becomes a guessing game. Hmm, I try to mug the wrong old lady and I wind up dead! Bad choice. If we keep eliminating criminals like that, then pretty soon we will either be out of criminals or they will have to take up a new line of work. Either way, I trust women to make good decisions. And, if by some chance they make a bad one, (i.e., some thug scares them), then I’ll give them the benefit of  the doubt. There are two mottos in the gun community: (1) shoot, shovel, and shut up; and (2) better judged by 12 than buried by 6. Besides as Heinlein taught us “an armed society is a polite society”. It’s still a dangerous world out there between criminals and government. But then I repeat myself.
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Always happy to read about our “cousins”. Would like to know more, see a pic, and recruit her. People don’t understand, (to use a Heinlein scifi term … “grok”) the web.

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> Bono thru political action and $40 billion worth of debt gets canceled to 18 African nations.

>  … … doesn’t that make you glad?

>>>>It may not be as immense as saving Africa from debt and AIDS, it may be no more than saving one small child or reengineering one vital process, but it will matter just as much in the end. And doesn’t that make you glad?http://www.acton.org/publicat/books/transformwelfare/olasky.html It has to be rooted in the concept that “give a fish, feed a day. teach to fish, feed for lifetime.” What we do is guaranteed to keep our fellow humans in poverty, virtual slavery, and misery for their short lives.

Am I happy? Nah, it just looks like more of today’s liberal (as opposed to the classical liberalism of freedom and liberty) feel good, self aggrandizing, give away what isn’t mine, socialist – communist, Barbara Streisand. Let’s talk about real solutions that set people free. That’s what I like to see in Provisions.

Sorry to be a gloomy Gus. But, a decade from now, we will still be talking about third world poverty and debt relief, and why the cradle of civilization can’t feed itself.

IMHO
 

In the realm of Big Govenment, this means replicating the Federal Reserve Note by other than the Bureau of Prinint and Engraving. Did you everwish as a child that all monompoly money was real and that you could take it and spend it for your whims and wishes. That’s the power of the Big GOvernment priniting press.

Unfortunately, as child you soon realized that no one would exchange your monopoly money for the candy, comic books, and trinkets that your heart desired. When Roosevelt took gold as money out of circulation and Nixon completed the crime by clsong the gold window, these United States of America and its citizens embark on another experiment. Could a currency float without backing.

Foe many factors, not the least of which is the dumbing down of that citizenry by Big Government education, the citizen never realized the fraud being perpetrated on them. Big Government runs a deficit? Ah hah, just print some more paper money. Big Government wants to fund a war in coutry X, Y, or Z? Ah hah, just print more paper. Big Government wants to buy soem more voters with a big social program? Ah hah, just print more paper. You’re childhood monopoly money dream is ebign lived by Big Government.

Now Austrian Economics, and even Keynsian economics, recognizes that paper money only has value by having people willing toexchange goods and services for it. Austrian economics would assert that the boom and bust business cycle is due to the mistakes people make based on unreliable information. This paper machine is one reason for those bad decision.

College students, a terrible misnomer since they rarely study anything, “learn”, if they bother to take Econ101, that money is first and foremost supposed to be a store of value. The US Federal Reserve Note is some store of vlaue; it lost 97% of its value in 30 years.

Oh yes, the piper must be paid. Someone is the victim in this scheme. That someone is anyone who holds a dollar when the new ones are issued.

Read http://www.lewrockwell.com/french/french8.html for more info!

What’s the big deal about that? Well, I wanted to get rid of these gift cards before I lose them. Argh. But what can people give a giant turkey nerd but a gift card for books. Hardware! But that’s a different rant. Anyway, I was writing my great American novel this moring on my handy dandy wiki when I used a phrase. I searched that phrase but could onl find it in Google’s Book search. It was very handy.

“the long sobs of the violins of autumn …”

http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0595006809&id=2xaKJiCVzN8C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=%22the+long+sobs+of+the+violins+of+autumn+…%22&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3D%2522the%2Blong%2Bsobs%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bviolins%2Bof%2Bautumn%2B…%2522%2B&sig=xIJjJQ6qMngBuzRvdOfSF9WhGic

So it gave me confirmation of the quote I wanted. (You wonder how I even remember that? I tell every one that I am a font of useless knowledge. Watch me play Jeopardy!)

So Google Books did make a sale for the publisher. They wouldn’t have gotten that sale without it.

Interesting?

i’m trying something new. when i first hit the deck, my ideas are fresh. i’m going to spend 15 minutes before going on to the day’s business to capture those thoughts. whatever they are. let’s see if that works bettr. hmmmm?

As usual, and since we couldn’t go, not that we’d ever go to CT again, I used this as an oppty to try something new. They assertedly offered streaming video for ten bucks. For ten buck, hey try it. It took my credit card and I was banging away at the setting to make it work. Called for help … no answer … no surprise there. I’m sure I went in at another place that didn’t say any such thing. I was able to catch a radio broadcast. One glitch there. Support called back and said you missed it! Call the number for a refund and hung up. I was going to say why did it take my payment for the show that couldn’t be delivered. Too lazy to block it? Argh. It could have made Frau’s night; instead another tech flub.