Lynne Russell's Opinion

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BRAVO Lynne Russell Bravo!!

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http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/07/08/theres-no-debate-about-guns-im-alive-and-so-is-my-husband-because-had-one-in-my-purse.html


   

'Nothing to debate': Second Amendment, legal gun in my purse saved our lives
    Published July 08, 2015 FoxNews.com

    The United States of America is a great country. You can debate absolutely anything, whether or not it has merit, and whether or not it's any of your business.

    But guns? There's nothing to debate. Throw out all the numbers and expert opinions. I've got your expert right here, and it's called EXPERIENCE.

    Just before midnight June 30th, my husband, Chuck de Caro, and I and our Weimaraner were four days into an all-American, cross-country road trip. We'd just dined with a friend in Albuquerque and intended to hit historic Route 66, then stop for the night.

    Realizing it was late and Route 66 is no fun in the dark, we stopped at a pet-friendly Motel 6. Chuck showered; I went to the car for dog food.

                                   

            He was making wild passes with his gun.
                                         Finally he lunged at the briefcase in front of me, and headed for the
                                                     door. For a second, I thought he'd leave. Instead, he
                                                                  opened fire on my husband.

    The armed guard patrolling the second floor was engrossed in a phone conversation, instead of checking the parking lot.

    I unlocked our door, picked up the food I'd placed at my feet and was assaulted by a jackass with a big, silver semi-automatic weapon.

    He shoved me into the room. I was airborne and landed on the bed. He shut the door and stood behind it, gun on me, debating his next move.

    He didn't expect Chuck to open the bathroom door. My husband  (Air Force Academy, U.S. Army Special Forces), said "What's going on here?" and advanced into the room. Stark naked and dripping wet, he maneuvered himself in front of the small table between the beds, concealing two small .380 legal handguns we'd brought in from the car.

    I moved around, we spoke to the assailant, kept him busy, offered him things, kept him from focusing. We felt he'd shoot when he'd gotten what he wanted. He was comfortable with the situation, had been there before.

    I walked my purse to Chuck, talking about finding something inside. I reached behind Chuck and slipped a gun in, then handed it to him, asking if he could see anything that we might give the man. He said yes, wrapping his hand around the gun.

    The assailant grew agitated as I again walked across the room, splitting his concentration. He was making wild passes with his gun. Finally he lunged at the briefcase in front of me, and headed for the door.

    For a second, I thought he'd leave. Instead, he opened fire on my husband. Chuck returned fire, emptying his gun even as he was bleeding profusely.

    Bottom line: Assailant DOA in the parking lot. My hero recovering from five gunshot wounds. We both are alive.

    Now, ask me how I feel about the right to bear arms.

    Here's the truth:

    1. Criminals will always have guns, this is not about them.

    2. Americans have a constitutional right to bear arms. Humans have a right to defend themselves. If we didn't have the Second Amendment, we would create it.

    3. You can't control everything; but if it makes you feel better, go with a simple law preventing violent offenders from buying firearms. Make it "violent" offenders rather than "white collar" offenders, or most of Capitol Hill won't be allowed to own them.

    4. Get a gun, get legal, be responsible, trust yourself. Don't trust yourself? Then don't carry. But for God's sake then, shut the f**k up about it, because that's where your involvement ends.

    Chuck and I were married one year ago, on the Fourth of July. Sure, we celebrated our first wedding anniversary in a hospital. But thanks to the Second Amendment, my crack-shot husband and the pistol he used, we were able to have a first anniversary.

[JohnyMac]

Yupper, at least this story is making the rounds on cable and MSM stations.

Notice how reporters protect their own ;-)

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Come here, Read This First


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Ex-CNN anchor survives wild motel shootout
By Shawn Cohen, July 1, 2015 | 2:09pm

Lynne Russell and her husband, Chuck de Caro, survived the shootout in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

A road trip down old Route 66 led to a Wild West-style motel shootout for a pioneering CNN anchor and her former-soldier hubby.

Lynne Russell — the first woman to ever solo-anchor a primetime network news show — and Chuck de Caro, 65, had stopped at a Motel 6 for the night in Albuquerque when an intruder slipped into their room as Russell went to grab something from the car around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.

“I opened the door and he materialized out of nowhere; he was inside,” she told The Post. “And he pushed me into the room and onto the bed and closed the door.”

De Caro, who was in the shower, emerged completely naked and tried talking to the gunman, who was demanding the couple fork over their money and valuables.

“We tried to calm the man, ask him not to point the gun because we really couldn’t think what we could give him,” Russell said. “It felt to me he was used to doing this, that whatever happened wouldn’t bother him.”

De Caro stood in front of a nightstand, where they had placed their legal, .35-caliber handguns. When the thug grabbed a briefcase and began firing at him, De Caro shot back as Russell ducked behind a piece of furniture.

“It was a gun battle, and Chuck was bleeding heavily, but he didn’t stop firing because the man was firing on him, and he was looking for me,” Russell said.

De Caro was shot twice in the abdomen and once in the leg — but managed to kill the gunman with his return fire. The intruder fled the motel room and collapsed in the parking lot, where cops later found him.

De Caro, a former special forces officer who now works as a national security strategist, was “bleeding profusely” just after the shootout, Russell said.

He was rushed to University of New Mexico Hospital, where he underwent surgery and will continue recuperating for several days.

Russell credited her cool-headed husband with saving their lives, saying, “I just admire him so much.”

“My husband is a hero because he really saved our lives,” she gushed.

De Caro said he called upon his special forces training in the moment, and insisted there was “no way” he would’ve let the gunman harm his wife.

“I was determined to save my dream girl’s life — even if it cost my own,” he told The Post, adding that his injuries “hurt like hell.”

Cops say the shooting was justified.

“The police had to stay with him, keep me from going over to that man’s body and kicking the s–t out of him,” Russell said.

While she’s walked through some “horrific scenes” as a journalist, she said the bloody motel room was still a “shocking” sight.

“When these thing happen to you personally, it’s rough,” Russell said.

The shooting happened four days into the couple’s cross-country road trip from Washington, DC, to California.