"SAF Inogurates the "Roosevely Courageous Woman Award"
This award, inaugurated on December 28, 2006, was intended to honor "... women who use firearms in lawful defense against a criminal attack."
SAF Founder Alan M. Gottlieb announced the award’s first recipient will be a Mississippi grandmother who fatally shot a would-be robber in October.That would be 73 year-old Beth Greer, who shot an armed assailant after he shot her husband, Tommy Greer, in a hold-up attempt after they arrived home from work.
(Tommy Greer survived the assualt; his assailant did not survive Beth's armed response after he came at her with a pistol in his hand.)
It must have been a difficult choice for Gottlieb, as we have here chronicled several other stories involving women who insist on their right to defend themselves, their family and their homes. Certainly we can take no exception to the recipient, though.
This will be an annual award. We regret that citizens are still subject to armed attack, but we are grateful for the wisdom of our founding fathers who insisted that we must recognize our God-give right to self-defense.
Referring to an earlier article about the breakdown of citizen rights in England, it's impossible to resist the temptation to point out that:
The difference between England and America is not cultural or industrial; it is The Bill of Rights.
We have a codified enumeration of civilian rights; Our English Cousins do not.
The Magna Carta was signed in 1215 at the insistance of King's Barons in revolt against the Crown's occasional infringments on their feudal rights. This was less a 'revolution' (in the sense of 18th Century American Revolution) than a squable between the Landed Gentry and their King.
King John acceded to the demands of his Barons because they had the means to revolt: they had armed retainers.
The British Citizens today do not retain these means.
N.Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, Australian and Canada (as well as former members of The British Commonwealth of Nations and The United Kingdom) also do not retain these means of demanding redress of grievance.
Today, while those who reside in these various countries are at the mercy of the bureacracies which run their nation, at least we in America have managed ... so far ... to retain the ultimate means to defend themselves against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
It is significant that the Second Amendment Foundation can celebrate this right.
Remember, the Second Amendment isn't about "Legitimate Sporting Purposes".
It's about your grandmother defending herself against an armed, masked assailant.
And it's about your ablility to defend your nation against tyrany.
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