With the prevalence of rich older men abusing young girls and women is there any surprise I carry a gun?

I’m very protective of my eleven years old daughter when we have billionaires who are likely behind our migrant crisis and support the abuse that we have been receiving news of beginning with Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s book “Nobody’s Girl”, and lately with the Epstein Files, and she is always escorted by me or her father wherever she wants to go.

Yes it’s invasive of her personal freedoms but she has said herself that she’s scared to even run over to her grandparents house, and she likes me to watch her walk across to the apartment on the side of the courtyard to her piano lesson. She knows that I have my pistol with me twenty-four seven and that she is safe under my eyes. She texts me every day she’s taken to school by one of the other parents.

I worry about the impact of this on her, and we do sit and talk about things like this, and how once she’s driving herself she will likely have her own means to thwart abduction.

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Boeing · 36-40

I lived in great fear, inherited by my mother and cultivated through society, media stories, the news, my male friend's opinions, other female friends' fears. I have reached that point where I was returning home around 25 and was leaving my front door open, checking everywhere inside the house first- to make sure I won't lock myself inside a house with someone else who have sneaked in there - I was checking underneath my bed, in the wardrobe, etc and then double locking the door. I was holding a knife next to my pillow.

Fast forward and one night I got sickened of it, the fear and myself and I decided I'm gonna end it now. I was in a big city at the moment, Athens, and I was living alone and terrified of all the stress I should never been crossing. It was late at night, perhaps 1-3 am and I remember I got out and walked.
And I walked and walked through all those streets that I wasn't supposed to be crossing, and I walked till almost the sunrise and then I return home.

That was another pivotal point in my life. Now I don't know what to tell you about your daughter, but I shared my story...

3-4 years ago I begun solo backpacking and traveling the world. I had a pepper spray I wanted to carry with me. Reading through forums, I read about how to "not pack your fears" and I decided again against it. But I have been practicing kung fu for over a decade - in reality I feel like my kung fu sucks - but it is still giving me the confidence to be standing free, so there's that.