An unarmed woman alone at home, in a vehicle, or walking between a vehicle and a building has little recourse against criminal attacks.  In fact, 2005 Department of Justice Uniform Crime Report figures suggest only about 15% of women who are violently attacked are able to escape or otherwise ward off their attackers.  Attackers generally have the advantages both of size and the element of surprise (for comparison, about 34% of men are successful at stopping violent attackers).  The odds are against all victims.  See "Balance of Power:  The Second Amendment and Self-defense."

An estimated 17 million women in the United States own guns, and that number is growing.  Our Founders, including Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, and many others all advocated the individual citizen's right to keep and bear arms.  In a world where women are not emancipated, it is especially important not to allow ourselves to be disarmed.  In Congo, where the citizens have been disarmed and cannot resist attack, up to 90% of women in some villages have been brutally raped, many with permanent injuries, even requiring many surgeries, colostomy bags, or artificial limbs.

The fact that firearms have been responsible for saving multitudes of innocent lives is, unfortunately, one of the world’s best-kept secrets. Gary Kleck found American civilians used their firearms as often as 2.5 million times every year defending against a confrontation with a criminal, and handguns alone accounted for up to 1.9 million defenses per year.  Most defensive gun uses do not even involve the discharging of a firearm. Simply displaying the gun is often enough to ward off an attacker, with less than 3% of these instances ending in the wounding or killing of an assailant. By looking at the number of senseless deaths and violent attacks that guns prevent, it is obvious that the greater good is being served by having armed citizens. 

According to researcher Dave Koppel, there is no consistent correlation between gun laws or gun ownership rates and high murder, suicide, or crime rates across a broad spectrum of nations and cultures.  In the April 1997 issue of Reason, Don Kates, Henry E. Schaffer, and William B. Waters, IV found in the 25 years from 1968 to 1992, American gun ownership increased almost 135 percent (from 97 million to 222 million), with handgun ownership rising more than 300 percent. These huge increases coincided with a two-thirds decline in accidental gun fatalities.

The subject of firearms safety, once considered essential knowledge to guarantee our liberty from aggression and tyranny, has become taboo in our schools.  Today, young boys cannot even draw guns or war scenes without being punished.  In the past, they used this therapeutic activity to work through the cognitive dissonance that normally occurs due to contradictions between ethics and the reality of human nature.

"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses
to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves."
-- Josef Stalin

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