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Friday, January 13, 2012 excerpt

• Item: Heroine of the week, though I'm a little late with this one, is Sarah Dawn McKinley of Blanchard, Oklahoma. Mrs McKinley, who is just 18, lives with her 3-month-old baby in a trailer up a country road. Her husband died of cancer on Christmas Day. Well, at two o'clock in the afternoon on New Years' Eve, two men showed up and began trying to break into her home, reportedly looking for prescription painkillers they'd heard her late husband had been using.

Mrs McKinley barricaded her door with furniture and called 911. It's a country district, though, with eleven cops serving a wide area — 12,000 square miles. After twenty minutes one intruder, 24-year-old Justin Martin, had made it in and was climbing over the barricade brandishing a knife. Mrs McKinley shot him dead with a 12-gauge. The other intruder ran away but was caught later and has been charged with homicide, apparently on the grounds that he was responsible for his accomplice's death. Mrs McKinley has not been charged with anything, since Oklahoma has a "castle doctrine" that permits homeowners to use lethal force against intruders.

Mrs McKinley has now been the subject of slander and insult by the leftist gun-control lobbies, but the subject of praise and admiration by Second Amendment conservatives. Count me among the latter.

• Item: It's a good thing Mrs McKinley doesn't live in New York. She'd be up on capital murder charges, and her baby would be in an institution run by leftist family-haters and child-molesters. The savage perversity of New York State gun laws — which, by the way, so-called conservative sweetheart Chris Christie would like to introduce into his own state — this perversity was on display in the case of 39-year-old Meredith Graves, a fourth-year medical student from Tennessee. Ms Graves was in New York City for a job interview. In her purse she had a .32-caliber handgun, for which she has a Tennessee carry permit. Visiting the 9/11 memorial in downtown Manhattan, Ms Graves saw a sign that said "No guns allowed," so she asked a guard where she could check the handgun. The guard took her to a police officer who promptly arrested her. Ms Graves faces weapons-possession charges carrying a minimum 3½ years in jail if she's found guilty. She's now out on a bond.

This story has a promising upside. Asked about the case at a news conference, our sinister megalomaniac gun-hating mayor Michael Bloomberg unbosomed himself of the following sneering reflection: [Bloomberg: "Let's assume she didn't get arrested for carrying a gun. She probably would have gotten arrested for the cocaine that was in her pocket."] In fact there was no cocaine in Ms Graves' pocket, nor anywhere else on her person. Bloomberg committed a gross slander of this lady on live TV. He alleged, on no evidence at all, that she is a drug addict, with possibly disastrous consequences to her chosen career as a medical practitioner.

I hope Ms Graves sues our repulsive fish-faced joke of a mayor until he bleeds from all orifices. I can't offer Ms Graves legal services, not being a lawyer; but if her lawyer wants someone to carry his briefcase, light his cigarettes, spit-shine his shoes, or adjust his tie, I'll be glad to do it free of charge, just for the opportunity to watch the loathsome Bloomberg reptile squirming in court.