Babbit55 posted...Rasmoh posted...
But they are literally the only effective means of protection for huge amounts of people. If you have a more effective way for my 5'6" 130 lb wife to defend herself against a 6'2" 230lb attacker, I'd love to hear it.
How will a gun help her defend herself?
Let us take some scenarios and see how the gun helps!
1) Someone wants to mug her, he has a gun/knife in her face demanding her bag. She can either, give up the bag and live, or reach for her gun instead and just be shot or stabbed instead. Yeah that gun really helped!
Luckily she is smart and walks with a hand in her bag, she has it on her revolver and fires through the bag
2) Someone wants her dead, she is stood at an ATM getting money, someone walks up behind her and stabs/shoots her. She had no time to get her gun.
She is also aware of her surroundings, and when someone is appoaching her from behind at an atm she turns to face them, hand in her purse....
3)Kidnappers! She goes to get in her car and there is a van next to it, as she goes in her bag for her keys a man comes out the side door and puts a sack over her head, drags her in and knocks her out. He then takes the gun from her bag. Again so much use!
LIke you said, hand in bag.... she sees a man coming out the door towards her with a sack, she shifts her grip from her keys to her gun, falls on to her back to create distance and fires up.
Guns are crap for self defence.
People that take there personal protection seriously, are usually as well or better trained/prepaired than 75% of cops.
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?huh?........ it's just a box.