MF135, I disagree that Kathie makes the rest of us gunowners look bad.
I think you may be misreading her posts to imply that she would brandish a firearm at a trespasser without any further provocation, but that's not what she said. She simply stated that she would confront a trespasser while wearing a sidearm. They do tend to have a psychological impact with your average harmless, law abidding trespasser.
However, you are, in fact, committing a crime by trespassing on private property, especially when Posted. It may not be a serious crime, but it is a crime. As the property owner, if I approach you, inform you yet again that you are are private property and ask you to leave, and you refuse, you've just compounded your crime. Furthermore, as a woman, if you refuse to leave my property, I WILL view you as an immediate threat and WILL take whatever action I feel is appropriate to neutralize that threat (you). Which would include the use of a loaded firearm that I, too, have no qualms about using. And in every rural area I've lived, I've yet to meet a LE officer who would have a serious problem with that. There might be some mildly unpleasant scrutiny for a while afterward, but I would prevail in the end. Now I'll admit that a man won't have the same latitude for the use of force, but, right or wrong, that's the way it is.
Additionally I would add that YOU do make the rest of us sportsmen look bad by wantonly disregarding private property laws in your quest for fishing or hunting in any manner you choose. It's irrelevant whether you like the idea that you cannot access public lands through private property. I don't LIKE it either, but it's their property, and if they don't want me there, I have to go around. But I firmly believe that it is attitudes like yours that cause so many landowners to refuse to allow access through their land. You are arrogant and disrespectful of their rights!
