Posted January 23, 2016 1:57 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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A main problem with blaming a tool (firearms) for the willful actions of people (violence) is that you may then find yourself in the position where you need that tool to mitigate the actions of other people… and by then you’re out of luck, and perhaps you may not live to learn from your mistake.

Sadly, I don’t think Andrea Koller will learn the right lessons even after surviving her ordeal, even though she and her daughter survived the experience only because the criminals allowed it.

An out-of-town teacher who publicly railed against gun violence was shot in the shoulder by a masked gunman as she tried to save her 20-year-old daughter from a pistol-whipping outside a hotel near JFK Airport, police sources said.

Brave mom Andrea Koller, 53, of Baltimore was improving at Jamaica Hospital in Queens on Friday and expected to survive, sources said.

Koller had driven her daughter, a Lehigh University student, into the parking lot of the Hampton Inn on 135th Avenue in South Ozone Park and then got out and walked into the lobby around 8:30 p.m., sources said.

Her daughter, Meredith Stifter, was sitting in the passenger seat of the car outside the hotel when a man …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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