Pistol-packing Linda

Linda Chavez says the District of Columbia will be a safer place to work and live now that everybody will be packing. Mandatory conceal and carry laws has meant everyone is just nicer to each other, not knowing who'll have the drop on them.
Linda's own experience stands as testimony.

• Soon after the gun ban went into effect, a terrifying intruder hid in my house. I happened to see the man lurking near my staircase. If I'd had my trusty .357, I could have bagged him, and with Make My Day laws, I'd be looking at a medal instead of some ignert investigation.
• Around the same time, a serial rapist attacked two women who lived within a block of my house. I still couldn't legally keep my own personal, fully paid-for gun nearby to protect myself. Police eventually caught the rapist, a teenager armed with a knife, but if I had had my rod I could have snuffed the rat bastard and saved the taxpayers the expense of a lengthy trial.
• I heard an awful racket through the walls of my Capitol Hill townhouse. My husband rushed outside to see our young neighbor visibly shaken. He'd found a man in his upstairs hallway, burglarizing the house obviously . If I'd had my gat, I could have aerated the punk and put the neighborhood on better footing for the future.