Too old and too female

There are a few old timers in the Senate and House who have become flabby porkers with 20-30 years of "service" to their country/state (in fact, one from Delware comes to mind). But too old and too female to own a gun? When her disabled husband who is older hasn't had the problem? Seems like state workers are just taking on a whole bunch of corrective and protective responsibilities never assigned to them.

"Delaware State Police stopped Alvina Vansickle from purchasing a .22-caliber pistol for self-defense because she was too old and a woman, said Superintendent Col. Thomas MacLeish.

The outrage that followed led to the revelation that Delaware State Police had been keeping lists of gun buyers for years; state law requires them to destroy these records after 60 days.

Without so much as a traffic ticket, the 81-year-old Lewes resident should have sailed through the mandatory state police background check when she tried to buy a Taurus revolver from Charlie Steele's Lewes gun shop last August.

Problems started after Steele made the required phone call to state police for approval of the firearms transaction." Delaware online

Now check out this video by Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp of Texas whose parents were killed by a gunman: "What the Second Amendment is REALLY For," October 2003