Nicole Broduer grows up and becomes more self-reliant!
Turns out I’m a pretty good shot.
The first round was in the center of the target from about seven feet away. My aim got a little squirrelly after that, probably because I realized what I had done.
I had loaded, aimed and shot a 9-mm Glock semi-automatic, followed by a .22.
What kind of person does that?
Based on the Saturday crowd at Wade’s Eastside Gun Shop in Bellevue, all kinds. Husbands and wives, a grandmother and her grandson, guy friends, guys with their girlfriends.
And me, under the watchful, safety-first eye of a man named Matthew, who had volunteered to teach me about guns and self-defense — and didn’t want me to print his last name.
Matthew contacted me after I wrote about convicted sex-offender Joseph Aqui moving into Seattle’s Othello neighborhood, not far from my house.
Around the same time, in the South Park neighborhood, two women were attacked by a man who had broken into their home. For more than an hour, he raped them, cut them and eventually stabbed and killed one of them. It was every woman’s nightmare.
So when Matthew wrote, volunteering to teach me about gun safety and self-defense, I was open. And it surprised me.
I know, I should be commending her and not deride her (rather late in life) decision. But if you had to put up with her self-important screeds and “why can’t the government do this for us?” blather as often as the rest of us PacNW folks, you’d understand why that was my first reaction.
Congratulations, Nicole. Keep it up.