A Massachusetts man and his nephew were recently wounded by an insane bobcat that attacked them without warning in their own garage.
The bobcat was finally subdued by the pair, who together wrestled it to the ground and beat it with a metal crutch before shooting it to death. But although they narrowly escaped possible death or more serious injuries, they'll have to undergo treatment for rabies, which an examination determined made the bobcat crazy.
Because of this country's namby-pamby gun laws, an unprovoked and potentially lethal attack by a mentally unbalanced wild animal went much further than it should have. When the man's wife appeared to investigate the screaming, yelling, snarling, cursing and other sounds of mayhem, she was confronted by everyone's worst nightmare: a vicious, enraged, frothing-at-the-mouth feline intent on ripping her loved ones to shreds. Worst of all, she was powerless to put a quick end to this all-too-real episode of "When Animals Attack" because SHE WAS UNARMED!
In both New York and Massachusetts, the Second Amendment has been gutted to deny law-abiding and animal-fearing citizens their God-given and Founding Fathers-affirmed right to carry any kind of weapon anytime, anywhere for any reason or for no reason at all. A needlessly defenseless woman had to run back into the house for a pistol, wasting precious time as a berserk bobcat clawed and lacerated her husband and his nephew.
All three victims were also put at unnecessary risk by restrictive and draconian gun laws that limit our means of self-defense. A pistol is fine — everyone should have at least one fully loaded and close at hand — but this situation clearly called for a fully automatic weapon with a large-capacity magazine. If the attacking animal had been, say, a tiger or a water buffalo, the result would have been disastrous because of wrong-headed limits on firepower.
What would Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo and other anti-gun, anti-Constitution, craven liberals who are intent on taking away our most important guaranteed right as citizens, leaving us open to domination by a One World Order dictatorship as well as random instances of animal violence, say about this?
Nothing helpful, I'm sure. They'd pooh-pooh even a compromise measure such as an armed garage guard, which would have prevented this potentially deadly attack, when it's a proven fact that banks, airports and crack houses, to cite just a few examples, are safer for the people who patronize them because of the presence of weapons.
Cuomo is responsible for legislation that was recently passed in this already martially oppressed state that will clamp down like Lynx rufus incisors on the citizenry's undeniable right to pack heat without question or interference.
This is alarming. As Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's beacon of light and truth, has said: "For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong."
His message is right on target, so don't shoot the messenger.
Without unrestricted access to weapons of mass destruction, we'll never be safe from attacks by wild animals gone wilder.
Bill Federman is a Times Union editor. His email address is bfederman@timesunion.com