Brutal Russian Attack Illustrates Why Women Should Be Armed

By Tom Knighton

What happened to Margarita Grachyov is the stuff of horror movies. Her husband, Dmitry was convinced his wife was cheating on him after she asked for a divorce. Apparently, he just couldn’t grasp how someone might not want to stay married to him, so it had to be another guy.

So he did what any sane, rational Russian dude would do. He chopped off her hands.

He drove her to a forest, outside of Moscow on 11 December, after lulling her into a false sense of security that he accepted her wish to end their marriage and jointly raise their two young sons.

He bound her so she couldn’t run and forced her onto her knees with her arms on a tree stump before chopping of her hands, and was ecstatic after severing her limbs.

First, he battered her fingers with the axe – ‘he was totally calm when he did this to me,’ Margarita recalled.

‘Unfortunately, I felt all the pain very much,’ she said, talking in detail about the attack for the first time.

‘I was dreaming that I would faint. I kept thinking all the time, why am I not fainting?

As horrific as this is, there’s a part that might …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms