Defenseless Women are Kidnapped, Raped and Murdered

There are those who believe that women should be defenseless. A woman defending herself creates discord and may lead to them fighting back when kidnapped, raped and threatened with death.

There are those who believe in a woman’s right to choose, so long as they do not choose to defend themselves from predators.

Nia Sanchez, Miss USA 2014, ruffled a few feminist’s feathers after answering a question regarding rape on college campuses. Angry viewers took to Twitter to express their outrage that Miss Nevada would actually suggest women learn self-defense to help fend off an attacker. Sanchez, a master at self-defense, said:

I think more awareness is very important so women can learn how to protect themselves. Myself, as a fourth-degree black belt, I learned from a young age that you need to be confident and be able to defend yourself. And I think that’s something that we should start to really implement for a lot of women.

Most of the outrage that rang through the Twitterverse came down to the argument, “We don’t need to teach women to defend themselves, we need to teach men not to rape.”

How about we do both? Perhaps we should teach our children to respect both sexes equally?

In my column “Mainstream: Girls with Guns in America” Iain Harrison, Editor of RECOIL Magazine wrote: Guns are no longer something icky you have to keep secret from your neighbors. They’re mainstream.

Harrison writes, “During this past year we gun owners as a community have weathered one of the most serious threats to our proud heritage and way of life since the early ’90s. And we came out on top. Despite throwing enormous amounts of money and influence into passing firearms laws that would have done nothing apart from inconvenience the law-abiding, for the most part anti-gun politicians came away with the square root of bugger all to show for it.”

“The reasons for that are numerous, but one key difference between the Clinton era and the landscape today is that, in most of the nation, guns are no longer something icky you have to keep secret from your neighbors. They’re mainstream. When something becomes mainstream, it’s much harder to demonize,” notes Harrison.

I believe one of the major reasons gun ownership has become mainstream is because of American women. More women are buying, shooting and training to defend themselves with firearms. RECOIL Magazine has an entire section of their website titled “Girls with Guns“. If you Google the words “girls with guns” you will get 155 million links.

Is it not the unalienable right of a woman to choose to defend herself?

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote:

“I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.”

Tocqueville once observed that it is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth. The simple lie is guns are icky. The complex truth is men and women are buying guns is large numbers and guns are now mainstream.

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