April 25, 2009
Like a dog is a man’s, a gun is a woman’s best friend!

Posted at 11:35 am, in: Uncategorized
Tags: Craig's List Killer, Gun Control

I don’t understand why women are supportive of gun control laws. It’s the perfect example of an issue that the left uses to play on our emotions. We are told about children being accidentally shot, or flashed pictures of Columbine, but we are never told about the women whose lives are saved because they were carrying a weapon. Or how the kids at Columbine could have been stopped if a responsible law abiding citizen had been carrying a gun and able to take those kids out.

The Craig’s List Killer prompted Massachusetts officials to advise their residents to just not fight back. Forget advice about not selling your body over the Internet, just when the man tries to rob you, in a situation where it seems that rape and death are unavoidable, don’t resist. They advised women to go against their natural instinct for survival. That seems realistic.

At least one MA resident finds this advice just a tad absurd. I’m going to have to agree with her. She thinks that more women should become handy with the steel, if you know what I mean (that means they should become well trained in using a gun):

No, I will never find myself alone in a hotel room with a strange man about to engage in a risky and illegal act. But I have been alone on subway platforms, alone walking to my car late at night and alone with young kids at home while my husband took (thankfully rare) overseas trips for conferences. No matter how much he’d love to do it, my husband just can’t protect me at all times. And, in spite of his lovely protective instincts, I really don’t need him to do so either. That’s because even though I’m a small woman, I have a pistol and I know how to use it effectively. We train and practice regularly as a family and I’m confident that if push comes to shove, I can and WILL use that pistol to defend myself.

Now, I’m not sure I agree with her premise that women don’t want to carry guns because they perceive it as unfeminine. Perhaps they do, but I would say there’s more to it than that. It’s an emotional issue and too many women think guns are naturally bad. If we could just get rid of guns, then the world would be a safer place.

Last year we were discussing guns in one of my grad school classes. We were talking about opinion polls on allowing concealed carry in the District. She said it made her uncomfortable, the thought that any one on the Metro could be carrying a gun, right next to her, and she wouldn’t even know it. Then I pointed out, that was probably already happening. Unfortunately, though, the person carrying a gun now was already a criminal and if he decided to use that weapon, you could rest assured every law abiding citizen on that train would be at his mercy because, thanks to DC laws prohibiting us from having weapons, the criminal would be the only one with the gun.

We talked about allowing guns on school grounds. As would be expected, the Virginia Tech shooting came up. I had to explain that the guy could have been stopped by someone else carrying a gun. As a society, we have been trained to think about all of the bad that happens with guns. We never hear about the good. And, women seem to be especially susceptible to this. Too many women blame guns instead of people, which really isn’t shocking to me.

Women don’t understand how useful a gun can be, especially to them. That restrictive gun laws disproportionately target and hurt them. Maybe that’s how the issue should be framed: gun laws are a way for men to keep women in a submissive, weakened status. It’s a way to keep us in check because if we have to go toe to toe with a man somewhere and we don’t have a gun, we are naturally at a disadvantage. I don’t know.

One thing is for sure, women need to realize that like a dog is a man’s best friend, a gun is a woman’s. Yes, it’s a responsibility and it takes work. Just carrying a gun in your purse isn’t going to save you. In an attack, you have approximately three seconds to get that gun out and be able to turn it on your attacker. That takes practice. But, it just may save your life.

(H/T: Jillosophy)