Should women be trained and issued firearms?
Since it's mostly men that commit violent crimes, especially with guns, shouldn't women be encouraged and sponsored to carry their own protection?
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Mamapolo2016 · F
Interesting if anecdotal - I lived a lot of my life where there was little police protection. I once called them and the couple of Staties who patrolled the area were trying to get to us but encountered at least two situations that had to be dealt with before they could move on. It took hours for them to arrive (about 4 1/2 hours).
They called at least twice to explain the delay. They asked “Are you folks okay until we get there?”
I said, “We are - as long as everybody understands nobody is coming into this house we don’t want here. There’s a shotgun here standing in for you.”
I always thought this was ‘rural myth’ but the officer actually said, “If you have to shoot him, drag him into the house, after.”
The area where I lived was remote and sparsely populated in places, lots of hunting cabins unoccupied much of the year - but crime rates for breaking and entering and home invasion were virtually zero.
Why? Because everybody understood that homeowners had guns, and stood prepared to use them.
They called at least twice to explain the delay. They asked “Are you folks okay until we get there?”
I said, “We are - as long as everybody understands nobody is coming into this house we don’t want here. There’s a shotgun here standing in for you.”
I always thought this was ‘rural myth’ but the officer actually said, “If you have to shoot him, drag him into the house, after.”
The area where I lived was remote and sparsely populated in places, lots of hunting cabins unoccupied much of the year - but crime rates for breaking and entering and home invasion were virtually zero.
Why? Because everybody understood that homeowners had guns, and stood prepared to use them.