Gotta wonder about Rebecca Peters of IANSA:
Rebecca Peters said:
Women need to be protected by police forces, by judiciaries, by
criminal justice systems. People who have guns for self-defense are
not safer than people who don’t . . . having a gun in that situation
escalates the problem.
I know women who have used guns in seperate incidenrts to drive off
- a home invader attempting to steal a VCR and fighting a woman,
- an ex-husband who showed up after a year with three drinking companions for god knows what,
- an abusive boyfriend,
- an estranged husband and his drinking buddy lurking on a neighbor's porch,
and even a couple who held a burglar at gunpoint for arrest by responding officers.
None of these women would have felt safer without their guns,
In each of these incidents, having the gun de-escalated the problem,
sometimes in less time that it takes to say "Exit, stage left."
If these women had to wait for Rebecca Peters, Kofi Anin or George
Soros and the UN blue helmets to save them they would have been
robbed, beaten and violated physically and/or psychologically.