Gun Owners Are Evil

photo copyright Amy Leang/Detroit Free Press
The local media sources are all over CCW/CPL holders because of this chick (the incident happened last week:

Bernadette Headd says she doesn't regret taking out her 9mm handgun and firing it during a freeway run-in with another driver.

It was self-defense, not road rage, she said.

In an interview Thursday with the Free Press, Headd said she was overcome by fear when she flashed her handgun to try to scare off a driver she thought was trying to run her off I-94 last month. Then she said she fired the gun out of the window of her 1993 Chevrolet Cavalier to get that driver to back off.

Now, the 40-year-old Macomb Township woman is out of the Macomb County Jail on bond, waiting to face a jury in May on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm from a motor vehicle and using a firearm during a felony.

"If I wanted to, I could have hit his truck or even him," she said at her attorney's office in Madison Heights. "I wasn't trying to kill anybody."

But officials at the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office said Headd went too far. They said she fired her gun at the tire of a Dodge Ram that was following closely behind her after its driver tailgated her, prompting that man -- Russell Sabo, 46, of New Baltimore -- to flag down police on the highway.

"Her statement immediately after she was arrested was ... she 'was sick and tired of people running up on her on the freeway,' " said Jim Langtry, chief of operations for the prosecutor's office. "This is an extreme case of road rage."

The incident is one of the few high-profile cases of its kind since the concealed weapons permit law was passed in 1999, making it easier for Michiganders to carry guns. Some who opposed the law warned that such acts would become commonplace once more people were allowed to carry guns.

Now, it is interesting that the Free Press states "The incident is one of the few high-profile cases of its kind since the concealed weapons permit law was passed in 1999..." To hear the media blitz, you'd think Detroit was Dodge City. Um, bad example. You'd think that Michigan was Dodge City because of CCW holders. Yet, they admit in the article this is a rare action for CCW holders.

I also have a contention with the statement that the CCW laws made it "easier for Michiganders to carry guns." Because criminal thugs carry them around all the time without any licensing.