Apparently I need to start using bold font or all uppercase or something, because it is becoming increasingly clear that you all just are not getting the message: guns are "bad news" for women, period, end of story, no debate. So with that obvious fact again expressed (I mean, really, how many times am I going to have to say it before y’all start listening?), I wish you folks would stop founding made-up organizations like Women Against Gun Control:
An increasing number of women are concluding that, when it comes to an encounter with an attacker, "Guns are a girl’s best friend."
The reason is simple: Guns are the great equalizer. Guns give women a fighting chance.
Whether a woman is physically fit or not, a gun is the one thing that can equal a man’s strength.
But increasingly, the freedom to own, carry, or use a gun in self-defense is, itself, under attack. And increasingly, the perpetrators are women — women like Sarah Brady, Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Janet Reno, and Barbara Boxer , to name a few. Women who claim that turning us into a nation of unarmed, helpless victims is the answer to crime.
… and stop trying to normalize obviously extremist, abnormal, and anti-social behaviors like politely openly carrying in public:
“So why do you carry that?”
(Pointing at SD) “To keep her safe.”
Counselor #2 chimes in with “Yeah. I wouldn’t want to carjack your car.”
I said “That’s pretty much the point.”
I saw the light bulb go off over the head of Counselor #1. And she said she’d like to learn how to shoot. I told her I’d be happy to help point her in the right direction and the next time Michael W. came to visit we could maybe set something up.
That’s a conversation that never would have happened if I’d been carrying concealed. We’re winning — one at a time.
… and I really, really wish you would stop doing things as foolish as deciding not to live your life in fear and that it is time for rapists to operate in fear:
And I will not live my life in fear: not only do I refuse to, but it’s just not in my nature. But more than ever– even more than when I first decided to take the class and get my CPL– I want the option to carry a gun when I feel I might need it.
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But what if just, say, 20% of we “easy marks” were properly trained and carrying firearms? It would completely change the power dynamic out there for everyone if it became impossible to predict which potential victims were also a fatal error. Every victim becomes Schrödinger’s victim, an unknown outcome until you open that box. Every attack, every attempt to harm, becomes a serious gamble.
I prefer the idea of being the wrong answer.
I mean, honestly, if more women start developing this can-do, take-care-of-themselves mentality, then they might start actively and effectively defending themselves from rapists, and then where would those poor, misunderstood choir boys be? And where would the fact that guns are "bad news" for women be if rapists and muggers and murderers and whatnot else started dropping like flies? I mean, think of the women, people!
… Oh wait…
(As with my previous posts in this category, it saddens me that I have to specify this, but I know I do: the entire above post was written very sarcastically, and with good reason. The entire notion that guns are "bad news" for women is absurd on its face, and both it and those who promulgate it should be treated with the utmost contempt.)
I’m trying another tactic…guilt.
After I finish my latest and most depressing book, “Death by ‘Gun Control’”, I plan on mailing it and other literature to Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA). I want the horrors of disarmed communities murdered wholesale by other ethnic groups or even by their own governments to stare her in the face. If she is truly the champion of minority groups then she would promote their RKBA so as to protect them. She’s a politician first; a human being second, apparently.
I think that anyone that gives any thought to promoting gun control and also knows of the Holocaust and other genocides is acting as Satan’s little helper.
Feinstein’s got bodyguards, and enough hoi polloi will always survive to maintain the tax base. What else is there?
But seriously. Linoge, are you trying to get the little ladies hurt? Just give them whistles and pre-set their speed dials for 911. That way they can call men to their aid, and don’t have to worry their pretty little heads about such serious matters. I’m sure they’ll be fine.
(I am now going to be killed.)
@ Braden Lynch: While a fair number of people would accuse me of undue cynicism and animosity towards her (and her fellow anti-rights cultists), I would argue that the problem is less Feinstein not being aware of the potential, disastrous side-effects of gun control, but more a problem of her not caring. As Joel points out, she will never suffer those side-effects, while the very notion of gun control gives her… *drumroll*… more control in general, which is kind of the point of the game.
Honestly, I think those books would probably be better spent warming your house in the winter… she is hardly likely to even glance at them.
@ Joel: Which, of course, points out the inherent hypocrisy of a “feminist” supporting “gun control” – how can any self-respecting woman who advocates for the empowerment of women simultaneously leave women not only defenseless to the desires of men, but dependent upon men (in uniforms and with guns, ironically enough) for their protection.
Cannot say as though I will ever understand that mentality.
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