Grandma’s Got a Gun

Danish journalist Terkel Svensson and a group of other reporters in Crawford Texas near President Bush’s ranch seem taken aback that a little old lady would dare warn them off her property with (gasp!) a gun in her hand.

CNN’s Ed Henry hyperventilates that this was nearly “an international incident,” leading his story with the breathless “A Danish journalist came this close to getting shot Saturday by an elderly woman packing a pistol.” [...] He reports, “Next thing you know the woman is outside, no more than a few dozen feet from the journalist, demanding that he leave. “Suddenly she comes out and she says, ‘Get off my property. You’re trespassing.’”

And? So? She didn’t shoot them; she didn’t even raise her gun. She simply exercised appropriate caution when going to confront a strange man standing outside her house. Of course in an ideal Lefty world, she would have hidden, cowering, in a back room and waited until the police arrive to “take care of things,” no doubt.

Armed with the photos of the “incident,” Terkel crowed, “I will show the photos to my wife and children, they thought I was on a safe trip.” No doubt we’ll soon be reading in the international press that constitutionally-aware Texas grannies are more of a threat to civilisation as we know it than Hamas terrorists, and that Texas is no safer than Waziristan for brave roving reporters.

See CNN’s “Gun incident near President Bush’s ranch” and Confederate Yankee’s take on this.