http://tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=30878

A 10 foot gator kills Miami woman 

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Miami, Florida  – Florida Fish and Wildlife Officials say a woman who took an evening jog along a canal in Miami was attacked and killed by a gator.

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Yup, dangerous. Dangerous for the women, the weak, the old, and all of us in general.

Now, I can't say for certainty that the previous "girlie gun" suggested that all woman carry (i.e., a 380) would have saved this woman's life. But she would have at least had a chance. I can't imagine her terror in her last minute.

I do know that the gator might have gone to a handbag factory if she was able to use it. Assuming it was close enough to bite her, she would have been close enough not to miss.

It certainly might have registered in the gator's pea brain as a threat and it might have forgone this lady as it's dinner.

As I always say, I trust women and their innate good sense to know when they need to save themselves by the use of deadly force. It's a shame the rest of our society doesn't!

It also ignores, that under different circumstances, if carry was allowed, perhaps there would be a packing Good Samaritan, who could have used their tool to save her. I'd loan her a couple of rounds from my 1911. I KNOW that would the gator on someone's dinner table! And we'd still have a fellow human around. It's unreasonable to help her UNLESS you have a tool. No one is a match for a 10 foot hunger gator.