Comments by "Glamdolly" (@glamdolly30) on ""I Know She Was Scared" | Amie Harwick's Friend Testifies" video.
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If America's gun obsession was justified, and made sense, Amie would be alive today. Because if gun ownership worked, as the firearms lobby claims it works, she'd have made sure she carried a weapon at all times, and would have shot Gareth Pursehouse dead when he confronted her inside her home.
But Amie, like the vast majority of homicide victims, was not kept alive by a gun. And her tormentor and killer was not taken out by one, before fatally harming her. More's the pity! If only Amie were in the dock for killing HIM inside her home, a toxic abuser and would-be killer, no one would miss. She would be acquitted for sure. I would support gun ownership - if it worked, and saved good people like Amie. It doesn't.
But the fabulous, much-loved Amie is gone and the world is a lesser place.
UGH that creep is a revolting specimen, no wonder Amie wanted nothing to do with him. It's terrifying she survived her violent, abusive relationship with Pursehouse 8 years previously, yet he returned to take her life so long afterwards. He was a ticking time bomb.
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@ThePrincessnady1 Thank you, I was waiting for exactly that predictable comment - and it took 45 minutes to arrive!
You missed the point. If gun ownership worked, every female would carry one, and thousands of stalkers, killers, rapists etc, just like Gareth Pursehouse, would have been shot dead and taken out of society by their victim.
How great that would be. But sadly it just does not happen. Even if Amie had carried a gun, she was taken by surprise inside her home and overpowered by a 6ft 4ins maniac twice her weight and strength. Chances are he would either have disarmed her, or turned the weapon on her.
She had bought pepper spray to defend herself - no idea if she was carrying it when attacked, but if so she didn't use it. Alone, she had no chance against that monster.
I wish guns kept good people alive, and annihilated the bad ones. But this and countless other murders prove they simply don't. Year after year, guns prove useless against killers like Gareth Purseglove.
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