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Originally Posted by cologal
I am strongly against the concealed weapons movement....but before you go off and call me a gun hater you should understand why.
On more than one occasion I have stopped men from hitting their wife/girlfriend/partner. Once in New Orleans and once in Colorado Springs. Both times I called the police only once did they respond. It takes courage to stand up to a guy like that after seeing the violence he is capable of and yet I did. But then came the guy that was throwing rocks at a dog....when I asked him to stop and I turned my back he pulled a gun from his fanny pack.
Now you are going to ask me if he had a permit, a license to carry and various other questions to determine if he was a legal gun owner but none of that is relevant because he had a gun and he pulled it and he could have also pulled the trigger.....if he did that I could be dead legal or not, with this guy had I had a gun of my own I would be, at the very least shot, cause this guy was scared of his own shadow which is why he had a gun.
Now I cannot stop a women from being hit if I come across this situation because he might have a gun. Do you know how many women are abused by men who "love them"? Do you know how many women die at the hands of men who "love them'?
So now you know my reasons.....
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Fact: Of the 2,500,000 annual self-defense cases using guns, more than 7.7% (192,500) are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse.
Fact: When a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3% of rape attacks are completed, compared to 32% when unarmed.
Fact: The probability of serious injury from an attack is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than for women resisting with a gun. Men also benefit from using a gun, but the benefits are smaller at 1.4 times more likely to receive a serious injury.
Fact: 28.5% of women have a gun in the house.
Fact: 41.7% of women either own or have rapid access to guns.
Fact: In 1966, the city of Orlando responded to a wave of sexual assaults by offering firearms training classes to women. Rapes dropped by nearly 90% the following year. ABC News, July 17, 2001
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Your arguement does not hold water. I will never call you a "gun hater" just one who does not understand where the Second Amendment comes into play keeping an uncontrollable government at bay. Any man who beats on women need to go to jail. But sadly most abused women don't or will not press charges.
Also I don't really carry if he had a permit or not. I would venture to guess that he did not since he was so readily willing to display his firearm to you. I don't know if you are male or female but it really doesn't matter for what he did was an assualt and you should have departed the area, called the police and made a formal complaint. So you are as much of the problem as to allowing someone to assualt you that way since you did nothing to stop him from doing it again, and most likely getting shot. There are some of us who can draw and fire under a second.