Gunpowder and Lead

What?!?! not played on the radio!?!? But that is where I keep hearing it being played time and time again. Where are you that they do not play it?

Yes, I also like "His fist is big, well my gun's bigger. He'll find out when I pull the trigger!"<br /> I hope every man who beats anyone gets some kind of punishment.

You have a totally laughable and glorified idea of what law enforcement and the criminal justice system can do. You really think the cops are going to come out and babysit someone for an indeterminate amount of time based on a concern she has about something that may or may not actually happen? You really think they're going to come and hang out around your house for the next 5-7 years until the dude leaves town or goes back to prison? Or longer if he decides to stick around? HA! By the way, I work in the field.<br /> <br /> In general, cops are hard-working and compassionate folks, but they are BUSY. Even in the smallest quietest town, you may get an hour or two of a cop hanging around, but as soon as someone creams a cow on the highway or comes home to a burglary, they gotta go. Relying on police/fire dept etc to save your a** in every situation is completely foolish. Every cop and firefighter and EMT in the world will tell you this. <br /> <br /> I'm not for murder by any means, but I'll tell you, I've seen lots of women murdered by their abusive husband/boyfriend. Most of the time, the abuse has been reported to police, there are restraining orders in place. There's only so much other people can do for you. A restraining order is by no means a guarantee of safety. A restraining order just means they may get a few more days in jail added to their Murder I sentence when they violate the 50 yard stay away zone and shoot you in the face. By the way, I have yet to see a man killed in a DV situation. I know it happens, but rare. Surprising considering how long this song has been on the radio, brainwashing us all. <br /> <br /> But all of this aside, I get your point. You see, I used to be a happy well-adjusted person. Then I started listening to country music. I found out my husband was cheating so I beat the crap out of his car with a bat causing thousands of dollars of damage. I later shot him in the face with a shotgun when he was released from prison for beating me. I then led police on a high-speed chase through a corn field with a beer in the console. After I got locked up, I broke out of prison with a witty and complicated plan that involved dogs mating. However, I was heartbroken that I lost my love and drank myself to death with whiskey. I now haunt the sandy beaches of Cheyenne, Wyoming. <br /> <br /> Damn country music, and their crazy stories! Who knows what will happen when I discover death metal?!?!

Oh and by the way, I know your next response will likely be - just break the cycle! Just leave! Of course, again, I am not advocating that every DV victim should kill their attacker. However, the whole "just call the cops and leave him! He will go to jail for a long time and and the cops will protect you every minute of the day and everything will be rainbows and happiness and safety!" is utter horse s***. First of all, most people convicted of DV don't spend much time in the slammer at all. <br /> <br /> I'd also like to see you leave behind your children, and the only source of income you've had for the past 10 years, without any real skills or education to compete in a fierce job market. This is often the reality of many victims of DV. Besides, many of the women who are able to leave their abusers are stalked. You don't "just leave!" If it was that easy DV wouldn't be the huge problem it is. I'll tell you, we deal with a local battered women's shelter often. The address is top secret, and I've had to deal with very belligerent men doing their best to get it so they know where their victim is.

Yeah right, call the cops. The number of dead women who called the cops and got that restraining order tells me how useful that is. I listen to a show called 911 and it was made clear how useless that is. The women told the operator that an unknown stranger was breaking into her apartment and the operator spent 4 minutes repeatedly asking her if she was sure that she did not know who was breaking into her apartment. Finally informed the cops to go to her address and then spent the 8 minutes (that it took the cops to arrive to her parking lot ) telling the woman to hide but keep her land line phone with her and put the gun that she took out of the locked box down on the floor of the closet. The cops finally arrive and can not find the way to her apartment in the compound. NOW THE OPERATOR ASK how to get to her apartment in the compound (not in the 8 minutes that it took the cops to get there so that they would know which entrance was closest) and let the man who just walked into her bedroom hear where she is (as if the cord of the phone was not telling enough.) The man opens the closet pulls the lady out (leaving her 8 year old with the gun) and starts beating and strangling the woman (all the while the operator is demanding that the screaming woman tell her what is happening to her.) Finally, the cops come in to the apartment and eventually rescue the woman ( if the operator had immediately sent the cops the stranger would never have had time to reach her but no.....the Operator had to sure that the person breaking in was a stranger by repeatedly demanding the victim convince her of that fact before she sent the cops.)<br /> <br /> Cops are not there to protect anyone person but to uphold the law and protect themselves first. The number of times that they let people be murdered as they decide how to get themselves there without being harmed themselves......<br />

sigh No, it's not. You're an idiot and a self-righteous, pompous jackass. Ignoring the fact that you obviously have no experience or real knowledge about these kinds of situations (or that you may just be that stupid and honestly think that, in spite of your experience, that this is the way to respond...) I'm going to address your ridiculously asinine interpretation of this song: <br /> <br /> "That there implies that she has already done acts" <br /> <br /> ... No, you dolt. Listen again and try -thinking- this time. "He wants a fight, well, now he's got one" implies that she hasn't fought back at all up until this point. "He ain't seen me crazy yet" implies the same thing. The reason why she's going to fight back? The reason she's gone "crazy" (with fear)? She believes he's about to come home to kill her. That's implied in the fourth line of the song. <br /> <br /> Now, she's already tried to get the authorities to handle it for her. She's proven to the police that he is an abuser, as evidenced by the fact that he was locked up in jail ... however, as in most abuse cases, he was only put away for a short amount of time and rather than convincing him to stop, it only made him angrier. Again, reinforcing the fact that he's going to KILL HER. <br /> <br /> So. She's decided that, if he's going to come back to get rid of her and if the law is going to just let him go to do it, then no one's going to save her and she has to save herself. That is exactly what her plan is: Self-defense. Understand this, she is not hunting him down. This is not premeditated murder. She is waiting for him to come attack her. <br /> <br /> If I knew someone was coming to attack me and I knew the police weren't going to stop them, it would be well within my rights to arm myself and be prepared. You're probably also assuming that these two are married ... but one of the lines in the song implies this place, where she is, is her own home and that this is her boyfriend, not her husband. So, by that logic: He's breaking into her home when she clearly does not want him there and he does not have permission to be there... and he's doing it with the intent to do her bodily harm. <br /> <br /> Once again: Self-defense.

... By the way, how stupid do you have to be in order to say "This song is a glorification of domestic violence."? Seriously, I'd like to know, because "domestic violence" is what the MAN was doing. If you hadn't thought your comment out so poorly, you'd say it was "glorifying murder" since it's -discouraging- domestic violence by encouraging victims to DEFEND THEMSELVES.