Reply #7: Historical accounts suggest more or less exactly that [View All]

[MajorChode]

For reference, here is Dave Kopel's famous account of ER's trip to Tennessee:
http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/2nd_Amend/own_bodyguard.htm

This is the one that gun nuts love to reference along with ER's application to carry a pistol. According to Lorena Hickok, the ONLY reason ER agreed to get a gun was at the insistence of Secret Service chief, Bill Moran, who also urged ER to practice with it(which she did and the result of which was recorded in pictures which you posted). There's no reason to doubt Lorena Hickok as she was ER's lifelong friend. She obviously was in a position to know and she had no reason to lie about it. So you can keep perpetuating myths if it makes you feel better about your metal pacifier, but informed people know better. ER would have been perfectly content to take the trip to Tennessee without a gun and she was far more worried about a kid getting a hold of her gun and hurting themselves than she ever was about using it for protection (as most rational people would be).

If you want to really be informed about the issue AND ER's actual motives, try reading Hickok's book. I'm sure it's available at your local library. Or you can continue to post things you've managed to find on google and pretend you're an expert on ER. Clearly you aren't, and you're only demonstrating your ignorance.

As I alluded to before, ER would have been perfectly content to make the trip to Tennessee unarmed after receiving death threats and a KKK bounty on her head. As it was she made the trip with the gun locked away and no bullets available. So a 70+ year old woman can do that, yet middle aged men with no rational reason to fear for their lives feel the need to carry a metal pacifier everywhere they go. You may not want to reference ER as a shining beacon for gun worship, assuming you don't want to embarrass gun nuts. Just a thought.