To Geoff I would say that you make a good point about What Would Jesus Do. That's a great point, and in an ideal world more people would take that into consideration.

However, the world is not ideal and many people do not practice what they preach.

To your question: What if Europeans had guns? I would say that people probably wouldn't act the way you noted if they did. I know when I traveled in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Vienna, Zagreb, Manchester, Amsterdam, Firenze, Roma, Napoli, Bologna, and dozens of other European cities I tried to be a better tourist than you describe. I also was aware that while Europeans don't have guns, they do have knives (and they use them) and they do have bombs (and they use them). So, while guns are off the list of threats, they are not as genteel as you seem to try to indicate.

first of all how can any of yall relatre this story to president bush also how can you say it was a gun incident did she shoot the guy no it never even said a shot was fired but she got the guy to leave didnt she and as for the reporter he needs to pay more attention to what hes doing in another country all you hippie democrates need to take note if you wanna be safe come be a neighbor if you wanna take our guns come try it i dare ya and if you cant get over your nasty prejudice about others then you realy need to take a look at what you stand for you hypocrites

Do Danish people always wonder around their neigbors yards when talking on the cell? Is this related to having no government for months at a time??

What is truly amazing to me is that with so few facts on the matter everyone is so eager to characterize the people in the article as either a "gun totin' nut case" who brazzenly drew down on some poor unsuspecting innocent who came within seconds of being killed… OR "some insensitive jerk who practically stalked this "poor unsuspecting grandmother" who had no choice but to defend herself. It truly is amazing how with just a basic sketch we can fill in the gaps in our actual knowledge with our own prejudices and opinions. In point of fact that is what I find most disturbing about this article.

Good for the lady! Protecting herself and her property, as the law allows her to do. And I'll be willing to bet that that gun is registered too - that she's complying with all of the laws on the books.

Were it me, I'd've brought my own double-barrel shotgun out - even unloaded, a shotgun tends to get people's attention very quickly!

"I'm glad I live in a state that doesn't allow this kind of insanity."

A person protecting their property while acting within the confines of the law and using the best tools for the job is not allowed in your state? Please tell what state that is so that none of us move there by mistake.

"If I ever so much as see a gun in someone's hand, I will immediately call 911."

As well you should; guns belong in holsters or other proper storage and only in the hand when their use is imminent. If you see a law abiding citizen with a gun in their hand, we would love it if you could call 911 for us, because we're probably a little busy.

She's just a crazy old woman, leave her alone. Us texans aren't all like that…

If a strange looking Danish jouralist mindlessly wonders onto my property he'll be looking down a shotgun too.

Moral of the story:
Hang up and pay attention to the bylaws if you don't want bad things to happen to you for no reason.

ha ha! the only thing more funny then this story, is all the euro's showing up to smack-talk america. News-flash folks: we are a nation of self-reliant, independent, people, formed from the best your nations had to offer. Our ancestors got tired of your mindless tolerance to oppression, and in leaving, founded a nation where people are “allowed” to depend on themselves. We wouldn’t expect you to understand. If you did, you’d be one of us.

Only in America.

First, from the photo, the man was standing right near her front door, and she is approaching in a non-threatening manner with the gun by her side. Many posts are saying "someone walks on your front yard so you can shoot him…"" hmm, he's still standing, he walked away… she didn't shoot him. She exercised restrainted and her legal rights, rights he, the reporter, violated as a visitor in our country.

For those of you saying "in the rest of the world, you can walk on someone's lawn and not get shot"…Hello and wake up… In Dafur, you can walk on someone's street and get hacked to death with a mechete; in Columbia, you can be visiting, or even helping the locals, and you can be abducted, held hostage for years, raped and have your baby delivered in a jungle with a butter knife C-section; in Iraq, a little boy playing in HIS OWN YARD can be brutally burned beyond recognition…

oh let's not forget, it's the Americans who are helping that little boy, it's the American soldiers trying to help in these other countries… that's right ….let's all hate the Americans, except for when we need them and their guns.

Despite what you may think now, our founding fathers had the foresight to Constitutionally guarantee our right to bear arms for a reason.

Why should only law enforncement have firearms? If I called 911 how long would it take them to arrive if I needed help? I am it would be too late to help me if someone was trying to kill me. This is why I have CHL license so I can carry a handgun legally to protect myself and family.

That's Texas for you, solve all your conflicts with a gun, remind you of anyone?….

Americans. Even their IQ's were purchased at discount prices.

Coachbarbie…"The Americans on this board basically sound like a bunch of Neanderthals.?
How do you know what a "bunch of Neanderthals" sound like?
The coaches on this board sound like a bunch of idiots.

Well, she does have the right to bear arms, and obviously didn't shoot him, but people in this country are ignorant and trigger happy. Honestly, what is the logic behind her thoughts? If I have this gun I am safe? I am sure that if he had been a criminal, he wouldn't have been standing on her front lawn in the middle of the day, as such, a logical person would have asked him to move.

What a bunch of psychos some of the commenters are. The woman wasn't 'protecting herself' because nobody was attacking her. It was just a guy on the edge of her property, talking on his phone. Get over it. No wonder people think Texans are dumb.

The American south is full of the most uneducated, racist idiots the world has ever seen. No wonder the American economy is collapsing and Europeans win all the important awards at the Oscars. This woman's house is probably worth $30,000 (ie. 2 euros.)

LOL. We DID have guns in europe.

we just accepted the fact that arming people doesnt do much good.

when you guys finally decide that 50,000 american gun deaths a year isnt really acceptable, i'm sure you'll follow suit.

All of you anti-gun nuts make me laugh. You whine about what a terrible country America has become. You twist the words of the press to suit your own agenda. The lady did not shoot. The lady was not senile (as far as the article describes her). This homeowner was well within her rights to protect her property. An armed elderly female would certainly need an edge again a younger male.

Anti-gunners complain that there is more gun control needed. Do you folks STILL not understand that gun control won't work? All gun control would do is limit the law abiding citizens of the country to protect their lives and property. Criminals don't give a hoot about gun control laws…which is why they are armed. Wake up from your Utopian slumber and smell the coffee!

Oh my God, what a mean, nasty, hateful bunch of people Americans have become. Defending herself? Her property? Stupid, arrogant foreigner? Ungrateful Europeans?

What has become of us?

Now you know why we haven't had a terrorist attack in Texas. No gun control unless it means you can hit what you are aiming at. Not now, not ever. And my granny, who stays at home by herself in a rural area has a gun and knows how to use it.

The grandma was just being clear in her expectations. For all those idiots that think owning a gun should be against the law, if you don't like it change it. All you have to do is amend the constitution. Have at it. Only problem is, 90% of Americans don't agree with you.

If I were an elderly woman, home alone, and saw a man speaking a foreign language into a cell phone standing only feet from my front window(look at the picture) I may have reacted the same way. She never pointed the gun at the man. She simply told him to leave her property, which she has every right to do. I have read many times in the news about home invasions on senior citizens where the women are beaten and raped, so good for her at not wanting to become another victim. I am a liberal democrat from NJ.

WHY THINK ABOUT KILLING SOMEONE BECAUSE HE WALKED ON YOUR LAWN?

HERE IN THE REST OF THE WORLD, WE FIND THIS SLIGHTLY WEIRD, YOU COULD SAY….

Note to 2ndAmdSuppter - you are a crazed gun nut. Take two aspirin and go to bed with your gun. Make sure that safety is on!

1. She didn't use the gun, it was backup.

2. He wouldn't have left is she hadn't had a visible reason for him to leave. He wouldn't have left just because a "woman" told him to, especially an older woman.

3. Three cheers for the home owner! I'm glad she was successful in getting him to leave.

I really doubt she would have used the gun unless he had tried to enter her house.

This is a gun incident? Yes a gun was in her hand, but there was also a strange man approaching this elderly woman's home. If she had the physical means to protect herself I doubt any gun would be involved. As it stands, she perceived a threat and took a precaution. She did not shoot anyone; she did not recklessly aim the pistol at the man or fire a shot in his direction.

I shake my head at posts like "the world is laughing at you" and "I'm ashamed of our nation." When did it become appropriate to mock and scorn an elderly woman who was merely putting herself in a more defensible position?

Have you ever been victim of a home invasion? Well I have. While I was inside, watching my door being torn from the frame and fall into my living room, had I owned a gun instead of mace, the story would have ended quite differently. Don't judge this lady until you have experienced it. (And I"m a Grandmother also.)

If you are in trouble and call the police by the time they arrive all they can do is take pictures of your dead body and write up the report. The police can not be everywhere all the time, particularly in rural areas.

This woman determined there "may be a threat" to her. She armed herself and meet the "possible" threat. She determined that he was not a threat and did not shoot him. What she did was legal and the non threat was not harmed.

My question is what would have happened if this really was a bad guy and she did not have a weapon?

I live in Johannesburg, South Africa, supposedly the crime centre of the universe, and not even OUR baddies would shoot a Danish journalist!! Go granny go.

He's not much of a journalist, eh?
No clue where he is, what he's doing, what's in the woman's hands, or what the laws are.
How did he get his job?
I wouldn't want a strange man wandering around my property, either.
Those of you who say you'd have no problem with a man wandering around your home are either lying, or ignorant.
This was not a group of kids, it was an adult male where he did not belong.
She did not shoot him, nor did she aim the gun at him.
The media is overreacting, protecting their own.
How typical.

This just shows the level of stupidity that permeates this once great land.
GUNS GUNS GUNS… When will we wake up and stop allowing so many guns to be in the hands of so many unstable people.

Columbine, No Illinois , Virginia Tech, countless workplace shootings, Mall shootings, innocent kids by thousand shot at home.

This madness MUST stop.

The NRA must be stopped before we lose control of our society.

She was well within her rights. He (the reporter) was in violation. Being a journalist does not put him above the law or common sense.

Too much gun control will result in criminals having guns and no one else. They are not exactly following the laws to begin with. If you live in a rural area and something does happen, the police are not going to be there in seconds. you may have to defend yourself. Don't blame Texas for Bush way of thinking, he is from New Haven, Connecticut, and went to Yale and Harvard.

You know what…that woman was in her constitutional right to bear arms. Stop and think about it for a minute–you have a old woman who sees a strange man prowling her property… with as screwed up as times are…I'd fling out a pistol too. Between the cannibalistic murderers, the rapists, the home intrusions, and the con men who target older people….ya blame her? That woman probably had more experience with that pistol than the secret service men did with theirs. More power to ya, Sister!

If he was black, she would have shot first and asked questions later.

you guys are smoking crack, i would and you would do the same thing if you noticed someone on your property without authorization!!

Just another example of why the general population doesn't need guns. Police and law enforcement are the only people who should carry a deadly weapon- not gun-toting, obtuse conservatives. I'm glad I live in a state that doesn't allow this kind of insanity. If I ever so much as see a gun in someone's hand, I will immediately call 911. What tools American's make themselves look like.

Some of you people are so blind, if you think this country is bad go live in another and find out how lucky you are. America love it or leave it remember that you dumb a……..When the ACLU and the other commies get done with America lets see what you will be saying then. You will be playing a different tune, mean while I'll be armed to protect what is mine. I you come on to my property I'll blow your butt away, I don't care if you or your family is starving because you failed to stand up for yourself. God bless America

I am a liberal from NY and I don't think she did anything wrong. In point of fact, she did not shoot him, she only threatened. He was on her land. I happen to agree with the previous comment regarding the wrong headline, Idiot Journalist on cell phone.

It's called the"lone Star" State because no one wants to go there
willingly.

The amazing thing here is not that some whacko Texan acted as whacko Texans will, but that so many people who commented think that what she did was just great! Isn't Texas in the "Bible belt"? What would Jesus do?

Also, how many Texan tourists wander around Europe making no effort to speak the local language, and, when not understood by the locals, just speak Texas English louder? What if Europeans had guns?

stupid danes!.. u folks are good at making cookies i ll give u that but dont mess with texans… imagine all u city folks for instance leave ur apartment door open and someone comes in and is talking on his cellphone…private property is Private property…be it the apartment or front yard or back for that matter

hillary has not took care of business, she is being investaged for campaigh fraud for year 2000
and why has no one said any thing about the deal the clintons had with a mine in canada why they were in office, put millions of dollars in their pockets, no don't show tax returns. go to new york times to find these issues/ vote for obama

To all the xenophobes and right wing media-haters who have posted here: first, she did not know he was a 'foreigner'; second she did not know he was with the media. He could have been anyone from anywhere - it could have been you. What would you have done? I bet you would have pulled your gun…

Was he looking in her window? Get wawy from her house.
Welcome to Texas. If you don't like it GTFO.
Oh and yesteday was Texas Independence day!

The Unanimous
Declaration of Independence
made by the
Delegates of the People of Texas
in General Convention
at the town of Washington
on the 2nd day of March 1836.

I don't see the problem. I would have done the same thing. Good for her!

To all the xenophobes and right wing media-haters who have posted here: first, she did not know he was a 'foriegner'; second she did not know he was with the media. He could have been anyone from anywhere - to the gun-totting nitwit, it did not matter.

I traveled all over Europe and never once felt threatened by a gun. I loved it and felt sad knowing that in my country the redneck vote had given so much power to the gun nuts that now I could not walk down my own street with such a feeling of safety that I had in Europe. I say guns only in the hands of the well regulated militia, that is cops, nat guard, etc. Lets end this nightmare of death and loss.

Great, hicks with guns. There's no reason for anyone to have firearms at home - all it takes is a slightly imbalanced person or an overly emotional one and there would be a fatality. All of these situations can be resolved without firearms but way to go America with your warrior culture.

This is what you get in America, not a "your on private property, please leave." But, a "I got a gun and your on my property so I am going to murder you if you don't run away." What a sad day for American when you can't walk up to a house without having to worry about some scared old coot shooting first and asking questions later. Thanks NRA for making my country your shooting club.

How can the rest of the world take us seriously when every person we don't know scares us to the point that we'd actually murder them because they got too close to us?

coachbarbie,

Where in the midwest are you REQUIRED to have a license to own guns?

You can own a gun without a license in MOST of the country and the term license is never insofar as I know applied to firearms.

The legal terms and names are different typically.

Having lived in the midwest I know of one state which requires a card and it is NOT referred to as a license to own. You can get a permit to carry or a piece of paper in some states showing your are legally able to buy with no criminal record.

But Unlike cars the term is not license.

Tell me which state if you can and I will believe you REALLY are a gun owner.

While Texas' Castle Doctrine does give homeowners some leeway in shooting incidents, had this woman shot I doubt she would have gotten off. In most of the US what she did would be considered "brandishing" and would have resulted in her arrest.

Daniel said: "Most people would step to their door and demand the stranger leave." I disagree. Most of the people would say "Sir, are you lost. Can I help you?"

If you people don't lilke how we do things in Texas stay the hell out and take that liberal Hillary and communist Obama with you.

Thank you, Sane Texan, and shame on the rest of you who applaud such behavior…and Round Rock, please take comfort that I, probably along with lots of other people, will avoid a state where life is held in so little regard that you have reverted to the old "Shoot first, ask questions later" mentality of the old frontier.

I'm just waiting for the first huge award from a civil wrongful death suit because someone thought that permission is the same as justification.

Perhaps there is a reason many people have a prejudcial opinion of Texas,

Those Texican's are funny….

Quit whining. You don't live here and you were not there so you don't know the circumstances. You will be glad to have us gun owners around when you need us. We have the right to bear arms, as cited in the US Constitution and this lady was exercising her right.

You do realize that she lives next to the president-she has probably seen her share of crazies in her yard and should have every right to defend herself. There is no need for stricter gun control when you live there.

Welcome to Bush's America: mistakenly wander on to someone's property and have the threat of being shot. I wonder if this stupid, idiotic woman knew that this man had done it by accident as he was being distracted by his note taking.

IF YOU DONT LIKE THE WAY WE DO THINGS IN THE LONE STAR STATE, GET THE F OUT. DONT COME HERE AND TRY PREACHING YOUR WAYS AND TRY TO MAKE US CONFORM TO THE REST OF SOCIETY LIKE YOU. DONT BOTHER US AND WE AINT GONNA BOTHER Y'ALL.

I'm a NATIVE Texan and PROUD OF THIS AWESOME STATE OF OURS!! This Granny was only protecting her property…..who knows, she could have been robbed before and wasn't going to let it happen again!!

OMG you people have gone crazy! PERIOD YOUR NUTS!
Just imagine if it was a little boy or girl retrieving a baseball or frisbee, little old granny going to execute little kids?
Right to bear arms doesn't = the right to shoot anyone they want!

DANG !! a bunch of idiots you anti gun fanatics are !! the old lady did NOT shoot anyone, simply had a gun in her hand; learn to read idiots, dont make your own story. Hurrah for the woman defending her property AND her rights.

It would seem to me the reporter had a false sense of security. If he was in, say, Denmark, would he have done the same thing? What about Baghdad?

Just because you're in the middle of nowhere, that doesn't mean the law — and common sense — does not apply. If I was home alone and a stranger is standing on my lawn with a cell phone, I'd be afraid too. Home invasions, robberies, and murders happen in rural America too. The disturbing part is that the reporter was so unaware of his actions he didn't even realize the woman had a gun.

Just another example of the fear that Americans have due to the media. 'If it bleeds, it leads.' I have neighbors that have a gun next to their bed and they have never been robbed or the victim of violent crime. They have the gun because the media has made them scared of their own neighbor. How sad is this?

I think the old lady overreacted a bit. It's not like the reporter was peeking in her windows or something or giving her a real reason to pull her gun.

I have people accidentally wander into my yard and I will watch them until they leave but I certainly don't feel the need to pull guns on people just because they are near me. But then again, I live in a suburb and not in the middle of BanjoBeltBuckleLand, Texas.

It is unreasonable to support this woman. It wasn't the middle of the night and he wasn't actin strangely. He was a man on a phone. Good old common sense says you go out and politely ask him what his business is on your property and ask him to leave if you don't want him there.

Why is everyone here who supports her so afraid of anyone disrupting their little worlds. And why does that fear warrant a gun to resolve?

What people fail to see is that this is AN OLD WOMAN living next to a high profile person that a lot of people don't like. Now there is someone that has, at the very least, a thick accent she may not recognize on her lawn. Did she overreact? Yes. Was it completely unfounded? No. Texans aren't ignorant. We're just sick of the people trying to force your skewed and socialistic "values" on us. We know our rights and as always will protect them. Even when the rest of you are too afraid to.

What threat? The presence of someone talking on his cell phone?

I suppose she'd be justified shooting children from the school if she catches them throwing toilet paper up in her trees. That'd be a real threat to her life, right?

wait until there is someone on your property who you don't want there, and the police are pathetically slow to respond… Sorry to all you liberal fascists, but this is America and we are allowed to own guns to protect our homes. Keep the government out of our personal affair, and stop looking for hand outs.. yeah i'm talking to YOU, liberal idealists and cry-baby minorities.

If a strange man is on your property, you have the right to ask him to leave, and have means for self defense ready. If this man was a rapist instead of a journalist I'm sure we all would suddenly have a different view on gun rights.

Some people just don't understand that this Woman probally lived all of her life in her place in the country. It was President Bush that has intruded into her space and brought all these people with him. When you live in this area, you keep a gun for protection of your property from animals and intruders. This man was intruding. She must have felt threatened.

I guess someone that has not lived in the country can't understand.

I hope the rest of the world does think badly of the US for this incident…. if it keeps just one obnoxious idiot foreigner from visiting
or moving here legally or illegally than it was well worth it!!
go granny go!!!!!!!

Aren't we missing the point here? How about we don't have old people with large caliber firearms hanging out waiting to shoot someone for stepping on their lawn? Two statistics that should make everyone wonder–One, we have more gun violence/murder in this country than any other industrialized first world nation. Second, we have the most lax gun laws. NRA, do you have a response? I'm a hunter, and I own guns. I live in the rural midwest. I own firearms that have legal licenses and that are LOCKED AWAY so no one can get at them. If someone entered my house you can bet I'd be more dangerous with a baseball bat than a gun anyway, and I don't want to take the chance of my son and his friends playing with them (even though they've been taught gun safety) and accidentally killing themselves or someone else. Happens all the time.

On another note, can we not write in to these boards if we can't spell or use correct grammar? Many of us sound like we have third grade educations…..You can't really make a salient point if your message is so garbled that no one can understand it. The Americans on this board basically sound like a bunch of Neanderthals. Good day, all.

with boneheads like texans and some of the other posters here, it's a wonder that we have any friends left in the world. i'm sure that the danish will think twice before they send any help for the war on terror.

As I read these comments, many from Europeans, I am reminded why my ancestors left so many years ago.

Chinaskee
You are insane. The guy innocently wanders onto her property and you think she's justified in waving a gun at him and possibly, shooting him? What the hell is wrong with you?

Beware of theElderly Lady witha gun. She probably Knows how to use it! I am all for her and her right on her property.

I agree 100% with the Grandma if theres some strange guy walking around on my land im most definetly going to protect myself. I read all these comments about gun laws this that or the other thing… Do any of you stop too think what could happen to your families if we inforce a no gun policy any where in the world… Think of your kids sleeping safely and you in your tiny little world without a form of protection and someone breaks in THEN What he has a gun you have a fork and knife what are you going to do…. DIE thats right your going TO DIE…. Stop dictating what we should have you have no more control over it than anyone.. This women felt unsafe and she defended herself she had no idea who it was or what he was doing i would have done the same thing… THANK GOD FOR THE GUN TOTING GRANNY FROM TEXAS..

The kneejerk reactions in this comments section are a very sad reflection of peoples' mentality today. Nowhere in the article did it say a shot was fired. Nowhere even in the reporter's recollection did he say he was threatened with a gun. He recalled that he was very sternly asked to leave. He only found out there was a gun after getting back to his group and seeing photos. In the portrayed photo, you can see what appears to be a handgun held next to the lady's side pointed down. If you look very carefully you can see that her finger is off the trigger.

This is proper use of a firearm. You do not threaten with it. You don't wave it around and advertise. You have one, just in case, and you don't use it unless you have to.

Go Granny GO. He's lucky she didn't have a shotgun…….Don't Mess With TEXAS!!!!!!!

I think that we actually secretly lost the Mexi-American war and had to take Texas as part of our loses.

hey, Jim, there's NOTHING anti-American with voicing your opinion which is what Corey did… there is something anti-American, in my view, that you want to shoot someone dead because they have voiced their opinion. Get a grip and start being an American with real American values… not the kind that shoots at people for expressing themselves. That's just fascism!

From a Fellow (proud and black) TEXAN

In Texas not just "rednecks" have guns…..stay off our property and no one gets hurt. It's funny that when Americans go to other countries or even when I visit other states, I have the intelligence to find out the local customs….do the same when you come here or don't come at all.

You idiot liberals (excuse me, ignorant people) need to check your facts. Like …..what is the incidence of violent crime in Crawford, Texas and what is it in any similar sized city on New England? Go ahead, check….I dare you!

If you live on a ranch in Texas you have firearms to protect yourself from rabid coyotes, to protect your property from illegal immigrants and to scare off anyone you haven't invited to be on your front porch. Granny didn't HAVE TO use her pistol, as the picture clearly shows, just showing it was enough to get that reporter to leave.

Down here we own firearms, lots of them! If that makes you nervous then stay in Vermont ….PLEASE !

News Casters/Men are no better than paparazzi. Maybe some of them will
now realize there are limits to where they can go.

This gentle old grandma had every right to ask him to leave her property
and to have a gun to show him she meant business.

I'm laughing at all the negative comments left by the people ridiculing this little old lady. Put yourself in her shoes…. if you were elderly and day after day for the last 8years you have had people lurking around your house(being next to Bush's land) you would be fed up and probably feel threatened too. We have no idea what all this lady could have potentially been through in her life concerning her safety (at her home). Don't be too quick to judge her. Btw, why is this a top news story of the day? I would think there is more important stories going on in the world.

Americans and their pistols! She should have been carrying a rifle, much more accurate at ranges beyond 20 feet or so. Easier for an elderly lady to use.

For all the idiots out there that think all Texans walk around with guns…..get a life! Texas is the best place to live! Maybe journalist will think twice before wandering off somewhere they don't belong! I bet he does!

We dont need more gun laws fool. Let all the criminally insane, insane, or just dead in the head people kill each other off. Then there will be peace on earth.

unlike liberal new jersey texans have balls. see if this happened in nj the poor lady would've been arrested and then sued by everyone. not only is nj known as the "come kill me state" (because our liberal gov. is such a worthless idiot), it is also known as the "come sue me state" as well. welcome to nj land of the liberals and home of the idiots

Well congrates to the old lady. I didn't notice anybody else offering solutions on how to get the guns away from the American public. All you morons who want my guns can have 'em-bullets first.

"I can tell you it's a severe understatement to say White House and Secret Service officials were a bit concerned about the fact that they had just dodged an international incident." Is it? Get over yourselves.

A journalist wanders onto someone's private property and that person uses a means within their rights to get them off their property and suddenly this is nearly an "international incident?" Come on…it was a journalist. It's not like it was someone actually doing something worthwhile.

When can we look forward to seeing the headline story about a journalist who gets pulled over for speeding?

I would rather the old lady be running our country than her neighbor; at least she didn't USE the gun!

The reporter shouldn't have been on her property.Good for her.

Never underestimate the little old lady!

Wow…It seems a lot of people have all the facts and details of the situation that the rest of us do not.
Thanks for grouping us "Texans" in a discriminatory way. I'll bet your one heck of a racist also.
If you don't like Texas, Texans or understand what laws are, then please stay away. I would not come to your state and demand that you change your laws for my benefit.

An old woman alone in a rural area finds a strange man wandering around her yard and asks him to leave… while she's carrying a gun. That's ALL this is, not a gun incident like this idiot reporter is trying to make it out to be. It's her property, and her Constitutional right to protect herself and her property.

The Danish Journalist shouldn't have been THAT FAR in the womans yard. It's his fault, period.

Being a native Texan, I'm ashamed that people have stooped to such behavior. The lady has a right to protect her property but she sounds like another gun fanatic to me. That part of the state is known for it's gun-totten redneck, radical people. That is why Bush's ranch is right where it belongs. Remember Waco, Killeen?

Armed person = citizen. Unarmed person = subject. Welcome to the United States, now learn our way

Great! It's called "The Right to Bear Arms". Next time you should consider staying off of someone's property…

Holy crap people, this lady is probably just tired of eight years of this kind of crap. Between the war protesters setting up tent cities on their land and the constant media attention I'm pretty sure that most small town Americans would be in a similar mood. It's my understanding that Bush doesn't have many fans in that town and most of it's tied to resentment from a Connecticut yankee playing cowboy and the constant stream of invaders. There isn't a small town anywhere that likes a bunch of "outsiders" hanging around tearing up the place.

GO HILLARY!

If we could just take everyone's gun away from them, then we would all be safe. Let's hope Obama is elected so he can take our guns away from us and make us safe.

CNN why have you stop allowing Comments?

I am glad that people can defend their property in America. There are many places in America and outside America where you would be shot without warning. Land of the free doesn't mean you can just wander everywhere you want to without incident.

I don`t see what all the fuss is about. In most states its perfectly legal to run unwanted people off your property so why are people picking on the Texas lady for doing so. As far as I could tell she didn`t point the gun at him or threathen him, just told him to get off her property. What`s the big deal??

The replies show how divided this country is…….. you got the anti-gun crowd calling her a nut. - so sad. People this is not a little surburban neighborhood, to get to her house he had to be 1000 or so feet from the road. If you don't like the way we do things down in Texas (such as respect other's personel property) then leave. Go back to your own little self absorbed world and leave us the h*ll alone.

Posters from outside Texas should note that President Bush's ranch isn't in the middle of a city. People who live in rural areas don't have the luxury of a constant police presence to protect them, and the elderly lady was being prudent in making sure she could protect herself.

In rural Texas, there are only 3 types of people who will show up unannounced on your property wearing a suit: salesmen, preachers, and politicians. The best way to deal with any of the three is a good old fashioned pistol-whipping.

Go granny!

Here's just advice for anybody who happens to visit Texas:

Texans are very "funny" about our property. It's ours. We paid for it. We pay the taxes on it. And we're proud of it. Strangers on property, especially out in the country, is highly unusual and suspicious. If you live off the beaten path, you tend to know who your neighbors are and who are not. Don't fault the older woman for being alarmed at a stranger near her front door. Such a thing is unlikely in the country out in Texas.

This old lady was within here right legally. I notice that people are saying a need for stricter gun laws. She was on her own property and asked for the journalist to leave. It is not the governments job to tell americans not to have firearms on their own property. Read the constitution some time. Oh I forgot that the constitution only matters when it is handy for the liberal agenda. Take the entire constitution or none at all. Remember the 2nd amendment secures the others.

Hey Granny.

You tried to shoot my pardner?

Meet me out on the road today at high noon. No sheriffs.

Just reinforces the saying, "guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people".

this woman is crazy at least shes not here amagian stepping on her lawn?

Lesson learned: Stay off property that doesn't belong to you.

For one, I don't give a holy hell what Europe thinks about us or our laws. We are the greatest nation for a reason. The Second Amendment and private ownership of firearms is only one of many reasons. As Americans, don't compare yourselves to the 'morally courageous Europeans", who in standing up for everything, really stand on nothing.

Why do you care what the world thinks of you, when they're all trying to beat down the doors to COME HERE?

Matt

It would have been a fitting end if the Danish individual's bodyguard had shot her in the head for drawing a gun on him. Shoot first, ask questions later when somebody draws a gun on you.

See the problems with this? Somebody arrest that ignorant woman.

Typical for Americans to meet all problems head on with a gun. Bush's legacy is an increasingly violent America.

This is the most insensitive article I have seen on CNN. It's not a joke that someone doesn't want their privacy and liberties taken away. Imagine endless groups of people crowding on your property daily. Roads you take to work and town are blocked off by people who have no reason to live save for bashing Texans and Bush. Anyone would become frustrated, especially at nosy reporters who think their rights outweigh the privacy of others.

Find something more worthwhile to report on - like why American students don't know where their own country is on a map - maybe even try something positive for a change.

Need to stop & think here folks. Lady lives out in the country - who knows if she has been robbed, or worse in the past. Maybe she had a good reason for defending herself. She obviously was worried about something. And — she didn't shoot the guy. Next we'll be hearing that we should outlaw talking on a cell-phone while walking. He could have walked out in front of a car and got hit!

"um" how close is "this" close?

I guess "messing with Texas" is now defined as walking nearby on a cell phone …gosh dern that journalist was rather threatening.

I live in Texas, own a pistol and if you come on my property I just might use it. You threaten me, try to steal anything or try to hurt me, I'll shoot first and ask questions later.

Did President George W. Bush listen to his neigbors before deciding on the war against Saddam Hussein???

Now son, you know not to mess with Texas don't you?

Someone should shoot you Corey, you ANTI AMERICAN piece of crap.

Guns built this country, just try to take them away.

Then we wonder why there are so many shootings at schools and colleges… you're telling me that in a neighborhood where the likes of the President of the US resides you need a gun to get people off your property? Come on!

Granny needs to take her alzheimers meds and someone needs to confiscate that gun. She can still wear her cowboy hat, ride her horse and pretend it's still the Wild Wild West.

P.S. for those morons who think European Socialist countries have something wrong with them, think again. How many school shootings and violent deaths do you see in Europe (aside from the few mafia related thugs)? Look outside your country for once and for real! Not everything is perfect here.

That little ol' lady won't be a victim. Respect other's property rights.

Looks like she did not point it at the reporter. She asked first. She was ready to protect herself.

To an old lady, possibly living alone, a strange man standing in her yard IS threatening.

You don't like it. Fine. That is your right to live in a different country. We let in all kinds of folks into this country. Last I checked, there are places in Europe that aren't so safe for their citizens either.

i guess we're not in copenhagen any more, toto..

or

something's rotten in denmark..?

or

don't mess with texas..?

Wow…I lived in Texas for a year and it was the worst year of my life. Looks as if nothing has changed. I can tell you that I went to a public school in San Antonio and in the 5th grade I was teaching my teachers more than they were teaching me. This woman is likely a product of the public school system in Texas.

maybe now you feregners'll stae out of my yarde.

She didn't have any idea who that was - she had no way to know he was a journalist.

And, if he was some kind of miscreant, the gun doesn't do any good inside in a drawer!

I think she would have done better to have the weapon holstered. It would look a little less threatening.

I guess this moran won't WONDER AROUND in Texas. All you other morans crying about gun control she controlled the gun just fine did not aim it at him but was ready to protect her self and family. Its called old lady in the country

If she were in NY there would have been a million blinking red lights, helicopters and she would have been rushed to a mental hospital…ya gotta love American diversity!

Yeah, Europe. Such a civilized place;

A workers paradise where there's a soccer riot every 3 minutes or "immigrant youths" mugging, raping, rioting and setting fire to hundreds of cars over a cartoon. Yeah, Europe, you bastion of sanity, you.

We have laws here and property rights. Deal with it. Personally, I'm ecstatic that you idiots are over there. The smart one left and understand that that individualism is something to be cherished and nurtured. not squashed by the all-knowing state.

Instead of walking outside with a gun in her hand, she could have picked up the phone and dialed 911 if she was so scared.

Sit in the house, look out the window, hold your gun close by, and wait for the police to arrive or the man to leave.

To have her first instinct be walking outside (closer to the man she is supposedly frightened of) with a gun in hand shows you how far away from "love thy neighbor" this country has truly fallen.

Funny story, lighten up people!

Obama 08!

That's a gun? I don't know. From the photo it could be her remote control.

What a gun crazy nation

Hey moron. Get of her property. We can still defend our rights on our own.

If that wandering journalist had stepped into a rattlesnakes yard,
he would have gotten a real surprise.
He was LUCKY it was only a little granny with a sixshooter.
Yes she probably should have called 911.

Seems like she did the correct thing, she should have first called police and then checked the back yard to make sure he was not drawing her attention while others came in the back. But then again if that building across the street is used alot by media crews whenever GW has guests she might be a bit ticked off. Any of you ever been around a media frenzy.

Good for her. Europeans thinks they own America. They only need America when someone is invading their country and they are too weak to defend it. Maybe the liberals that are so disgusted by this poor old ladies actions should go and live in peaceful Europe. They need you, we don't. BTW, did we ever get a tank you from France or England when tiny Germany was kicking their butts?

This is news why?

GOD BLESS TEXAS!!!!

Send Bush back to his gun-crazy neighborhood. Now. And send Hillary Clinton to the White House so our nation may finally be secured with sanity.

To the person who said people who own guns should be put in jail, you'd have to put bars all the way around Texas. And I believe Texans would probably provide labor and materials.

If you use a gun illegally in Texas you may be invited into the speedy checkout lane called The Death Penalty.

You had better watch where you walk. Come on what an incident we could have had. The pres might have made a phone call and the whole thing would have been over. Or an the other hand we might have gone to war. Just because some stupid journalist couldn't stay on his own side of the street.

Texas!
Nuf said…

Before you condemn this "little old lady" for weilding her gun "in defense of her property", maybe you'd better take a look at past incidents where strangers have invaded one's property in broad daylight for nefarious purposes.
I might add that people in Texas don't suffer fools lightly and are very possesive of their rights, both private and property wise.
Maybe more should be as aggressive in protecting their rights as this lady, then there might just be less crime in the world.

The story says he was barely on her lawn by accident, not at her front door as one poster alleges.

So if she's so concerned about her property, why no fence? People call the absentminded journalist an idiot, but geeze– sounds like this lady is short on sense herself.

Yeah, he screwed up by being careless, but his "crime" doesn't warrant a death sentence. The lady overreacted IMO.

Here is another clear reason one should not drive and use a cell phone…..this guy can't even WALK and use a cell phone. He is so distracted he wonders right up to this womans house? Guess if he had been in his car he would have probably driven through her front door!

God Bless Texas!

GOOD GRIEF!!
Dont make this more than it is!!! Living by Bush I am sure this is not the first time this has happened…think about it people it is a no brainer. There are weirdos in the world..I own a gun too, some guy I dont know comes on my property I would do the same…it didnt say she came out with guns a blazzin…shesh you all try to analize a situation do death…GET OVER IT!!!! Way to go Granny!!!

Look at the size of that house — how could he not realize he was wandering into someone's front yard!? We don't need more gun control, we need more cell phone control. Clearly the cell phone was the more dangerous device here. And clearly the issue is idiot Danes, not idiot Texans. He ought to go home and show the photos to his wife and children and say, "look at what an idiot I was in America!"

There are a lot of ignorant comments here. My first thought was what if this guy had been secret service? Don't they have a right to be anywhere they need to be to protect the president? That's why I believe the old lady knew that this guy was a reporter and that's why she reacted that way to a perfectly innocent situation. The moral of the story is that ignorant people (regardless of age) should not own guns.

I don't see what the problem is.. She was carrying a handgun?! If she wants to answer he door with a 357 Magnum, then more power to her.

It's not as if she shot at him and missed. She came to tell him to leave the property and happened to be carrying her gun as a 'backup-plan' — If you don't like guns, move to Australia.

"Currently Packing.. In Virginia"

Thr right to bear arms! Way to go granny! I am proud to be called a TRUE AMERICAN with you. Screw the Euro trash!

I am a Police Officer and I have no problem with this. Women (and others) should have access to firearms to protect themselves. We police can't be everywhere at once. And he was probably safer with her around than in Denmark where only criminals have guns.

Crazy old bag. Interesting how the issue of guns has been almost entirely overlooked during this primary season considering all the shootings on campuses and at malls, etc. I'm all for the right of individuals to own guns, but clearly there has to be some manner of action taken to keep them out of the hands of the mentally ill and children. I don't know if this woman was mentally ill or just a Texan. Sometimes, they're difficult to differentiate.

Come on folks, Don't pick on Texas

It isn't nice to make fun of retards

Corey said: "All i can say to this is stupid Texans!!! This is why we need very strict gun laws in this country."

Thank you Corey, for showing us the most ignorant statement ever said on the internet. How dare our laws give anyone the right to protect their own property! How silly of us. Let's just tear up that silly Constitution, shall we?

I'm a 70+ year old. I carry a gun and know how to use it. In an emergency, if I called 911, it would take over an hour for them to get here. I am not helpless and don't intend to be. There have been incidents in our rural area that make me most sympathetic to the woman in the article. For those of you who prefer to cower behind a locked door, aren't you glad there are those of us who would even protect you, should you need it? Thank God for this President and our military.

Granny is bored and has no life except her television, and church on Sunday.

If she truly did not like what she had seen, looking out her window, and truly felt the situation to be a treat to her and her property, she would have lock the doors and called 911.

She was looking for trouble and was probably hoping for a chance to shoot anybody.

lol, its funny really when people are so paranoid, they have to get a gun when somebody steps on their property, whats wrong with this world?, on the other hand she could of been in one of those greatest lawn competitions, and didnt want her precious greens getting foorprints all over it

What yall are surprised that a Texan Grandma had a gun. My grandma gave me my first gun and taught me how to shoot it.
Texas is different than the rest of the world.

I thought all yall liberals loved diversity.

We all have guns in Texas. Don't like it ? Too bad. Pry it from my Cold dead hand .

You don't step on someone elses property without permission.

I am reading comments like,"this will be good for our image in Europe" and "I really wish Texas would just secede already". Well, guess what. I am proud to be a Texan and we aren't going anywhere. And, I could care less about our "image in Europe". You bleeding heart liberals are acting like she shot the guy in the face first and then asked him to leave her property. The fact that she didn't shoot him, so there really was no "Gun incident" proves that she has the sense to own a gun.

CRAWFORD, Texas Texas the shoo tum up state. I think they need gun control.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this or just exhibiting my own biases , but I'm thinking that the journalist may not have been so lucky (1) if he didn't have on a jacket and tie, and/or (2) if he wasn't white.

Send a thank you note to the NRA - they fight hard to keep our gun rights and to allow people of all ages and mental states to remain armed so that anyone can repel dangerous Danish journalists and prevent crime. God bless them! Who knows what damage could have happened to that lawn if she hadn't acted so quickly?

since nobody got hurt, it sounds kinda funny… I focus on my work, but i also try to pay attention to people who are yelling at me and holding a gun. A gun is one of those things you just notice… The 1st Clinton pushed tougher gun laws, i bet the 2nd Clinton would do the same.

Clinton '08!

If the old lady had shot the journalist, half of Texas would have congratulated the old lady! Sad, sad, sad!

Dick Cheney shot a man in the face.

Most Europeans will absolutely love this story.

Perhaps the concept of "Private Property" is something forgotten to the socialist Euro-trash. Certainly, the notion of private gun ownership is.

I admire Granny's spunk and courage- she's got more of it than all you whining libs have at any age.

Hmm I think you of you want the 2nd amendment fine, but lets have an IQ test of at least 100 before you can own a gun. This would probrably rule out most of the state of Texas but at least this woman would not be sharing her stupidity with the rest of the world today.

That's what I call GUN CONTROL.
Sounds like she handled the situation appropriately. She didn't shoot the guy, from the picture it doesn't even look like she pointed the gun at him. I'm sure the anti-gun folks would have shown that picture if she had.

Well done ma'am!!