For this British woman, living alone and terrified....I suggest a 9mm or .45 caliber pistol....oh...she lives in Britain....she's a victim.......

[woodwork201]

No dog is more loving and comforting to its owner and a threat extraordinaire to a home invader, than a pit bull, and their short hair is a plus. And if they multiply, they're very coveted by people who hear about their loyalty and loving obedience to their owners and impairment and ferocity to interlopers.

Pit bulls particularly love children.... Very high in protein and their bones are easy to crush for the marrow.

 

[woodwork201]

Many people in England own rifles and shotguns.

As 2AGuy proved to you, according to UK gun laws, a firearm is NOT a suitable tool for defense. She cannot use her gun for self-defense in G.B.

 

[woodwork201]

Many people own guns in England. What their laws are, are really none of your concern either.

I agree that their laws should not be our concern. So quit telling us about what the rest of the world does to disarm their populations and how our laws are out of step with the globalists. I don't want to hear the left telling us about laws in foreign countries and then the left won't have to hear the actual truth about the laws in foreign countries.

 

[miketx]

Guns in Scotland? ... yeah, right ... we need to let the British manage themselves, they're not Americans, we can't expect them to understand freedom ...

Sounds like the woman has mental health issues and wouldn't be allowed to own a gun in the USA ... I'm surprised you didn't know that's the law here ... nothing scarier than a gun-nut with no respect for Law and Order ...

Law and order? Is that what commie shit stains call catch and release?

 

[miketx]

Many people own guns in England. What their laws are, are really none of your concern either.

If it's not our concern why does your lying commie ass keep bringing them up?

 

[pknopp]

If it's not our concern why does your lying commie ass keep bringing them up?

Bringing what up?

 

[Vagabond63]

Oh joy, another exercise in fear mongering from 2aguy. Hysterically funny that the article actually presents an argument that this poor girl is the very last person to own a firearm. She’s more likely to shoot herself in the foot when she has one of her “panic” attacks. Even in America, she probably wouldn’t pass a background check as she’s mentally unstable.

Owning a gun for “self-defence” just provides a false sense of security for those too, “afraid of the shadows” or who are generally otherwise paranoid. Fortunately, we in the UK don’t need guns for “self-defence”, as we live in a more civilised society.

As someone once said about America, “… unprecedented and unique in the history of mankind; the arrival of a nation at an ultimate stage of evolution without having passed through the mediate one; the passage of the fruit, in other words, from crudity to rottenness, without the interposition of a period of useful (and ornamental) ripeness. With the Americans, indeed, the crudity and the rottenness are identical and simultaneous;…” Or more pithily,

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization.”

To answer your question, here in the UK, we have things like composite doors and windows with toughened glass which are designed to withstand sledgehammers and police style battering rams, crowbars, etc. Some are even effectively bullet proof. Many new built houses have these as standard, including multi-pointABS locks which are almost impossible to pick. A house can be fully retro fitted for about the same price as a good quality shotgun, if, of course, you are sufficiently paranoid.

A cheaper option would be to buy a trained guard dog, or even a motion sensing dog barking alarm, but then again, we don’t get that many “home invasions” here. Burglary has declined year on year from a peak in the 1990’s, so basically the woman in the article is as safe as she can be and has no need of a gun, as opposed to arguably psychiatric help.

Next?

 

[2aguy]

Oh joy, another exercise in fear mongering from 2aguy. Hysterically funny that the article actually presents an argument that this poor girl is the very last person to own a firearm. She’s more likely to shoot herself in the foot when she has one of her “panic” attacks. Even in America, she probably wouldn’t pass a background check as she’s mentally unstable.

Owning a gun for “self-defence” just provides a false sense of security for those too, “afraid of the shadows” or who are generally otherwise paranoid. Fortunately, we in the UK don’t need guns for “self-defence”, as we live in a more civilised society.

As someone once said about America, “… unprecedented and unique in the history of mankind; the arrival of a nation at an ultimate stage of evolution without having passed through the mediate one; the passage of the fruit, in other words, from crudity to rottenness, without the interposition of a period of useful (and ornamental) ripeness. With the Americans, indeed, the crudity and the rottenness are identical and simultaneous;…” Or more pithily,

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization.”

To answer your question, here in the UK, we have things like composite doors and windows with toughened glass which are designed to withstand sledgehammers and police style battering rams, crowbars, etc. Some are even effectively bullet proof. Many new built houses have these as standard, including multi-pointABS locks which are almost impossible to pick. A house can be fully retro fitted for about the same price as a good quality shotgun, if, of course, you are sufficiently paranoid.

A cheaper option would be to buy a trained guard dog, or even a motion sensing dog barking alarm, but then again, we don’t get that many “home invasions” here. Burglary has declined year on year from a peak in the 1990’s, so basically the woman in the article is as safe as she can be and has no need of a gun, as opposed to arguably psychiatric help.

Next?

Yeah....tell that to the women raped by your civilized British men or the new immigrants.....

You don't need guns for self defense?

Now that is funny.........

Keep telling yourself that......

 

[miketx]

Oh joy, another exercise in fear mongering from 2aguy. Hysterically funny that the article actually presents an argument that this poor girl is the very last person to own a firearm. She’s more likely to shoot herself in the foot when she has one of her “panic” attacks. Even in America, she probably wouldn’t pass a background check as she’s mentally unstable.

Owning a gun for “self-defence” just provides a false sense of security for those too, “afraid of the shadows” or who are generally otherwise paranoid. Fortunately, we in the UK don’t need guns for “self-defence”, as we live in a more civilised society.

As someone once said about America, “… unprecedented and unique in the history of mankind; the arrival of a nation at an ultimate stage of evolution without having passed through the mediate one; the passage of the fruit, in other words, from crudity to rottenness, without the interposition of a period of useful (and ornamental) ripeness. With the Americans, indeed, the crudity and the rottenness are identical and simultaneous;…” Or more pithily,

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization.”

To answer your question, here in the UK, we have things like composite doors and windows with toughened glass which are designed to withstand sledgehammers and police style battering rams, crowbars, etc. Some are even effectively bullet proof. Many new built houses have these as standard, including multi-pointABS locks which are almost impossible to pick. A house can be fully retro fitted for about the same price as a good quality shotgun, if, of course, you are sufficiently paranoid.

A cheaper option would be to buy a trained guard dog, or even a motion sensing dog barking alarm, but then again, we don’t get that many “home invasions” here. Burglary has declined year on year from a peak in the 1990’s, so basically the woman in the article is as safe as she can be and has no need of a gun, as opposed to arguably psychiatric help.

Next?

Lying murderer loving, rapist loving, shit stain.

 

[2aguy]

Oh joy, another exercise in fear mongering from 2aguy. Hysterically funny that the article actually presents an argument that this poor girl is the very last person to own a firearm. She’s more likely to shoot herself in the foot when she has one of her “panic” attacks. Even in America, she probably wouldn’t pass a background check as she’s mentally unstable.

Owning a gun for “self-defence” just provides a false sense of security for those too, “afraid of the shadows” or who are generally otherwise paranoid. Fortunately, we in the UK don’t need guns for “self-defence”, as we live in a more civilised society.

As someone once said about America, “… unprecedented and unique in the history of mankind; the arrival of a nation at an ultimate stage of evolution without having passed through the mediate one; the passage of the fruit, in other words, from crudity to rottenness, without the interposition of a period of useful (and ornamental) ripeness. With the Americans, indeed, the crudity and the rottenness are identical and simultaneous;…” Or more pithily,

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization.”

To answer your question, here in the UK, we have things like composite doors and windows with toughened glass which are designed to withstand sledgehammers and police style battering rams, crowbars, etc. Some are even effectively bullet proof. Many new built houses have these as standard, including multi-pointABS locks which are almost impossible to pick. A house can be fully retro fitted for about the same price as a good quality shotgun, if, of course, you are sufficiently paranoid.

A cheaper option would be to buy a trained guard dog, or even a motion sensing dog barking alarm, but then again, we don’t get that many “home invasions” here. Burglary has declined year on year from a peak in the 1990’s, so basically the woman in the article is as safe as she can be and has no need of a gun, as opposed to arguably psychiatric help.

Next?

Yes....tell us again how safe women are in Britain....

Rape offences have increased dramatically in England and Wales since 2012/13 when there were around 16.3 thousand incidents. After this year, rape offences increased to more than 20 thousand, then 29 thousand in 2014/15, before increasing to over 36 thousand in 2015/16, and over 42 thousand in 2016/17. During the provided time period, rape offences were at their highest in 2018/19 when they reached 59.8 thousand, before slightly decreasing in 2019/20.

Rape offences in England and Wales 2023 | Statista

Rape offences have increased dramatically in England and Wales since 2012/13 when there were 16,038 offences.

www.statista.com

Again....please answer.....

A woman is grabbed by a violent serial rapist at a bus stop, a train platform or in her apartment...he plans on beating, raping and murdering her. She has a gun, and can stop the rape with the gun......

Do you want her to use that gun to stop the rape?

A woman stops an attack with a gun, a brutal rape, torture and murder...in a public space....if you had the ability to go back in time, and prevent her from having that gun...would you?

 

[2aguy]

Oh joy, another exercise in fear mongering from 2aguy. Hysterically funny that the article actually presents an argument that this poor girl is the very last person to own a firearm. She’s more likely to shoot herself in the foot when she has one of her “panic” attacks. Even in America, she probably wouldn’t pass a background check as she’s mentally unstable.

Owning a gun for “self-defence” just provides a false sense of security for those too, “afraid of the shadows” or who are generally otherwise paranoid. Fortunately, we in the UK don’t need guns for “self-defence”, as we live in a more civilised society.

As someone once said about America, “… unprecedented and unique in the history of mankind; the arrival of a nation at an ultimate stage of evolution without having passed through the mediate one; the passage of the fruit, in other words, from crudity to rottenness, without the interposition of a period of useful (and ornamental) ripeness. With the Americans, indeed, the crudity and the rottenness are identical and simultaneous;…” Or more pithily,

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization.”

To answer your question, here in the UK, we have things like composite doors and windows with toughened glass which are designed to withstand sledgehammers and police style battering rams, crowbars, etc. Some are even effectively bullet proof. Many new built houses have these as standard, including multi-pointABS locks which are almost impossible to pick. A house can be fully retro fitted for about the same price as a good quality shotgun, if, of course, you are sufficiently paranoid.

A cheaper option would be to buy a trained guard dog, or even a motion sensing dog barking alarm, but then again, we don’t get that many “home invasions” here. Burglary has declined year on year from a peak in the 1990’s, so basically the woman in the article is as safe as she can be and has no need of a gun, as opposed to arguably psychiatric help.

Next?

Yes....tell us again how safe British women are....

These new figures come just days after government data revealed that the rape prosecution rate has fallen again, with only 1.3% of rapes now being prosecuted.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics also released last week showed that police forces recorded the highest ever number of rapes and sexual offences last year, with 63,136 rapes recorded in the year to September, up 13% from the previous period.

The figures cover the months after the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021, with the ONS suggesting that the latest figures may reflect a “number of factors”, including the “impact of high-profile incidents, media coverage and campaigns on people’s willingness to report incidents to the police, as well as a potential increase in the number of victims”.

Commenting on the findings Dame Vera Baird QC, said: “There is no escaping the numbers: record highs in reported rapes and sexual assaults and charging rates so low as to be barely discernible. This is of grave concern and a depressingly familiar story.

The average rape case now takes over 1,000 days to complete, new data shows

The number represents a record high.

www.stylist.co.uk

 

[2aguy]

Oh joy, another exercise in fear mongering from 2aguy. Hysterically funny that the article actually presents an argument that this poor girl is the very last person to own a firearm. She’s more likely to shoot herself in the foot when she has one of her “panic” attacks. Even in America, she probably wouldn’t pass a background check as she’s mentally unstable.

Owning a gun for “self-defence” just provides a false sense of security for those too, “afraid of the shadows” or who are generally otherwise paranoid. Fortunately, we in the UK don’t need guns for “self-defence”, as we live in a more civilised society.

As someone once said about America, “… unprecedented and unique in the history of mankind; the arrival of a nation at an ultimate stage of evolution without having passed through the mediate one; the passage of the fruit, in other words, from crudity to rottenness, without the interposition of a period of useful (and ornamental) ripeness. With the Americans, indeed, the crudity and the rottenness are identical and simultaneous;…” Or more pithily,

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization.”

To answer your question, here in the UK, we have things like composite doors and windows with toughened glass which are designed to withstand sledgehammers and police style battering rams, crowbars, etc. Some are even effectively bullet proof. Many new built houses have these as standard, including multi-pointABS locks which are almost impossible to pick. A house can be fully retro fitted for about the same price as a good quality shotgun, if, of course, you are sufficiently paranoid.

A cheaper option would be to buy a trained guard dog, or even a motion sensing dog barking alarm, but then again, we don’t get that many “home invasions” here. Burglary has declined year on year from a peak in the 1990’s, so basically the woman in the article is as safe as she can be and has no need of a gun, as opposed to arguably psychiatric help.

Next?

Yes....don't let women have a gun for protection...teach them to think of the Queen and relax......

Right?

 

[miketx]

Yes....don't let women have a gun for protection...teach them to think of the Queen and relax......

Right?

He's probably a serial rapist.

 

[ReinyDays]

Law and order? Is that what commie shit stains call catch and release?

You're the commie shit stain around here ... you tell us ...

 

[miketx]

You're the commie shit stain around here ... you tell us ...

Bye bye commie criminal scum...

 

[Vagabond63]

….Aaand we’re off to the races! The usual torrent mixture of BS and cherry picking.

Yes, rape and sexual assault reports have increased in the UK, why? Because more and more British women are coming forward to report these crimes, and that’s a good thing in the long term.

Yes, conviction rates are low, why? Because decades of right-wing Conservative governments in the UK have underfunded the police, which in turn, has exacerbated the fact that sadly, rape is difficult to prove in the best of circumstances. This is truly another scandal created by the Conservatives in the UK.

Will giving women guns, solve the problem?

Given that 80-85% of these assaults occur inside either the victim’s home or the perpetrator’s home, when one or both are intoxicated or drugged; and that the overwhelming majority of rapists are either current or ex-partners or friends and/or work colleagues, who know or have known the victim, probably not.

Around 10% of rapes in the UK are carried out by strangers in public areas, which brings me to your perpetual BS non-question.

A woman is grabbed by a violent serial rapist at a bus stop, a train platform or in her apartment...he plans on beating, raping and murdering her. She has a gun, and can stop the rape with the gun......

There are several key issues here,

• Serial rapists are, by their nature, experienced. They, have over time, perfected their technique. I highly doubt, such a scumbag would approach the victim carrying a placard stating their intentions. Where details exist of such crimes the victim is taken out by a rapid surprise attack, giving the victim virtually no chance of putting up ant form of defence, never mind reaching for a gun.
• Can she stop the rape with her gun? An example, A woman is alone at night on a subway platform. After a while a man appears and walks towards her, he is 6’7” tall, black skinned and very well built. He is dressed in the uniform of the USMC. Is he likely to be a rapist?
• Another time an old man with a walking stick pushing a shopping trolley who hobbles over towards her; is he likely to be a rapist?
• On yet another occasion a young street thug approaches, He’s thin and wiry dressed in gang colours and heavily tattooed could he be a rapist?

In order to prevent the rape, the woman must shoot one or more of them, how does she decide which one to shoot? She has one or two seconds to make a decision before it’s too late. If she makes a wrong decision, she could either end up being attacked, or facing a life sentence in jail.

Merely having a gun does not guarantee or ensure safety. No situation is as clear cut as 2aguy would like to fantasize about.

Oh, and in answer to his “Trekkie time travel question”, no.

• Time travel is currently beyond our capabilities
• Interfering by changing a past event could have undreamed of ramifications for the present.

 

[miketx]

….Aaand we’re off to the races! The usual torrent mixture of BS and cherry picking.

Yes, rape and sexual assault reports have increased in the UK, why? Because more and more British women are coming forward to report these crimes, and that’s a good thing in the long term.

Yes, conviction rates are low, why? Because decades of right-wing Conservative governments in the UK have underfunded the police, which in turn, has exacerbated the fact that sadly, rape is difficult to prove in the best of circumstances. This is truly another scandal created by the Conservatives in the UK.

Will giving women guns, solve the problem?

Given that 80-85% of these assaults occur inside either the victim’s home or the perpetrator’s home, when one or both are intoxicated or drugged; and that the overwhelming majority of rapists are either current or ex-partners or friends and/or work colleagues, who know or have known the victim, probably not.

Around 10% of rapes in the UK are carried out by strangers in public areas, which brings me to your perpetual BS non-question.



There are several key issues here,

• Serial rapists are, by their nature, experienced. They, have over time, perfected their technique. I highly doubt, such a scumbag would approach the victim carrying a placard stating their intentions. Where details exist of such crimes the victim is taken out by a rapid surprise attack, giving the victim virtually no chance of putting up ant form of defence, never mind reaching for a gun.
• Can she stop the rape with her gun? An example, A woman is alone at night on a subway platform. After a while a man appears and walks towards her, he is 6’7” tall, black skinned and very well built. He is dressed in the uniform of the USMC. Is he likely to be a rapist?
• Another time an old man with a walking stick pushing a shopping trolley who hobbles over towards her; is he likely to be a rapist?
• On yet another occasion a young street thug approaches, He’s thin and wiry dressed in gang colours and heavily tattooed could he be a rapist?

In order to prevent the rape, the woman must shoot one or more of them, how does she decide which one to shoot? She has one or two seconds to make a decision before it’s too late. If she makes a wrong decision, she could either end up being attacked, or facing a life sentence in jail.

Merely having a gun does not guarantee or ensure safety. No situation is as clear cut as 2aguy would like to fantasize about.

Oh, and in answer to his “Trekkie time travel question”, no.

• Time travel is currently beyond our capabilities
• Interfering by changing a past event could have undreamed of ramifications for the present.

Total leftard crime lover bullshit!

 

[2aguy]

….Aaand we’re off to the races! The usual torrent mixture of BS and cherry picking.

Yes, rape and sexual assault reports have increased in the UK, why? Because more and more British women are coming forward to report these crimes, and that’s a good thing in the long term.

Yes, conviction rates are low, why? Because decades of right-wing Conservative governments in the UK have underfunded the police, which in turn, has exacerbated the fact that sadly, rape is difficult to prove in the best of circumstances. This is truly another scandal created by the Conservatives in the UK.

Will giving women guns, solve the problem?

Given that 80-85% of these assaults occur inside either the victim’s home or the perpetrator’s home, when one or both are intoxicated or drugged; and that the overwhelming majority of rapists are either current or ex-partners or friends and/or work colleagues, who know or have known the victim, probably not.

Around 10% of rapes in the UK are carried out by strangers in public areas, which brings me to your perpetual BS non-question.



There are several key issues here,

• Serial rapists are, by their nature, experienced. They, have over time, perfected their technique. I highly doubt, such a scumbag would approach the victim carrying a placard stating their intentions. Where details exist of such crimes the victim is taken out by a rapid surprise attack, giving the victim virtually no chance of putting up ant form of defence, never mind reaching for a gun.
• Can she stop the rape with her gun? An example, A woman is alone at night on a subway platform. After a while a man appears and walks towards her, he is 6’7” tall, black skinned and very well built. He is dressed in the uniform of the USMC. Is he likely to be a rapist?
• Another time an old man with a walking stick pushing a shopping trolley who hobbles over towards her; is he likely to be a rapist?
• On yet another occasion a young street thug approaches, He’s thin and wiry dressed in gang colours and heavily tattooed could he be a rapist?

In order to prevent the rape, the woman must shoot one or more of them, how does she decide which one to shoot? She has one or two seconds to make a decision before it’s too late. If she makes a wrong decision, she could either end up being attacked, or facing a life sentence in jail.

Merely having a gun does not guarantee or ensure safety. No situation is as clear cut as 2aguy would like to fantasize about.

Oh, and in answer to his “Trekkie time travel question”, no.

• Time travel is currently beyond our capabilities
• Interfering by changing a past event could have undreamed of ramifications for the present.

Because more and more British women are coming forward to report these crimes, and that’s a good thing in the long term.

Yes....nice ploy....you idiots trot that out to try to cover for rape in your country...

The thing is? Those rapes are actually happening and have been happening....that they are now getting reported means.....they are actually happening.......in larger numbers than known before...you idiot...

 

[2aguy]

….Aaand we’re off to the races! The usual torrent mixture of BS and cherry picking.

Yes, rape and sexual assault reports have increased in the UK, why? Because more and more British women are coming forward to report these crimes, and that’s a good thing in the long term.

Yes, conviction rates are low, why? Because decades of right-wing Conservative governments in the UK have underfunded the police, which in turn, has exacerbated the fact that sadly, rape is difficult to prove in the best of circumstances. This is truly another scandal created by the Conservatives in the UK.

Will giving women guns, solve the problem?

Given that 80-85% of these assaults occur inside either the victim’s home or the perpetrator’s home, when one or both are intoxicated or drugged; and that the overwhelming majority of rapists are either current or ex-partners or friends and/or work colleagues, who know or have known the victim, probably not.

Around 10% of rapes in the UK are carried out by strangers in public areas, which brings me to your perpetual BS non-question.



There are several key issues here,

• Serial rapists are, by their nature, experienced. They, have over time, perfected their technique. I highly doubt, such a scumbag would approach the victim carrying a placard stating their intentions. Where details exist of such crimes the victim is taken out by a rapid surprise attack, giving the victim virtually no chance of putting up ant form of defence, never mind reaching for a gun.
• Can she stop the rape with her gun? An example, A woman is alone at night on a subway platform. After a while a man appears and walks towards her, he is 6’7” tall, black skinned and very well built. He is dressed in the uniform of the USMC. Is he likely to be a rapist?
• Another time an old man with a walking stick pushing a shopping trolley who hobbles over towards her; is he likely to be a rapist?
• On yet another occasion a young street thug approaches, He’s thin and wiry dressed in gang colours and heavily tattooed could he be a rapist?

In order to prevent the rape, the woman must shoot one or more of them, how does she decide which one to shoot? She has one or two seconds to make a decision before it’s too late. If she makes a wrong decision, she could either end up being attacked, or facing a life sentence in jail.

Merely having a gun does not guarantee or ensure safety. No situation is as clear cut as 2aguy would like to fantasize about.

Oh, and in answer to his “Trekkie time travel question”, no.

• Time travel is currently beyond our capabilities
• Interfering by changing a past event could have undreamed of ramifications for the present.

Merely having a gun can stop the rape before it happens..........is it "bullet proof," no. But not having a gun gives the woman zero options against a larger, more aggressive, experienced, violent predator...

You don't want her to have any chance....just lay back, relax, and think of the Queen....right?

Actual encounters....actual women.....using guns..........

Lancaster Woman Scares Off Bat-Wielding Attackers By Pulling Gun On Them

LANCASTER, Ohio - It happened along a walking path in Lancaster.

Dinah Burns is licensed to carry a concealed gun, but she'd only recently started taking her weapon while walking her dog.

Based on what happened, it looks like she'll make a point of carrying from now on.

"I think if they'd gotten any closer, I probably would have fired,” said Burns.

It was Monday when Burns was on a footpath near Sanderson Elementary School.

"Two gentlemen came out of the woods, one holding a baseball bat, and said 'You're coming with us'."

The men weren't deterred by Dinah's dog Gracie.

"I said, 'Well, what do you want?,' and as I was saying that I reached in to my pocket and slipped my gun out, slipped the safety off as I pulled it out. As I was doing that the other gentleman came toward me and raised the baseball bat. And, I pointed the gun at them and said, 'I have this and I'm not afraid to use it.'"

The men took off and so far have eluded police. Dinah posted about the incident on Facebook to alert friends and neighbors, to criticism by some.

"Most of the males' opinion was, 'Why didn't you shoot them?'"

Easy to second-guess a decision made under pressure, based on her concealed carry training, and police agree.

"To get out of a situation, back out, get out of it as much as you can without having to discharge your firearm."

"I will say it's a good thing to go from a place of danger to a place of safety, however you get that done,” said Sgt. Matt Chambers, Lancaster Police.

"Very thankful that it turned out the way it did, and hope it doesn't happen again, but I will be prepared."
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What I want you to know on Gun Violence Awareness Day | Fox News

What I want you to know on Gun Violence Awareness Day

I correctly listened to my instincts; I had a feeling that my life was in danger in that elevator and prepared myself mentally for what was potentially to come.

I ran to my car in an attempt to escape and, before I could even get my entire body in my car, I was tackled by my attacker.

This man quickly overpowered me, stabbed at me with a knife, clamped his hand over my mouth multiple times, and repeatedly tried forcing me in the passenger seat of my car while telling me, “We’re going.”

The entire time this was happening, a rusted, serrated knife was being stabbed towards my abdomen and held at my face.

I had been hit in the face, thrown over my driver’s side console, and had rips in my tights from his hands trying to force my legs up and over into the passenger seat.

There are some individuals that think gun owners are “trigger happy” and wanting to pull their weapons out at the first opportunity. There is nothing further from the truth.

The night I was attacked, I fought like hell for my life before reaching for my gun. I kicked, I screamed, I had all ten fingernails ripped off and bloodied from scratching and trying to fight my way out of a literal life and death situation.

Ultimately, I accessed my gun, shot my attacker multiple times, and saved my life. He will be spending years in prison for what he did to me.

Using a gun in self-protection is not a decision one makes lightly; in fact, I never dreamed that I would be forced into a situation where I would have to do so. However, I also never imagined such evil existing in the world so that I would be powerless, wounded, on my back and unable to physically force my attacker off of me.

I owned a gun and had been trained on how to use it. I know how to safely carry and that a gun is a serious and significant weapon; it is not to be used carelessly. Naysayers and people with opposing opinions may try to undermine my situation with hypotheticals. I cannot answer these questions. All I can do is tell the facts of my story and the true account of how I saved my own life.

What I want you to know on Gun Awareness Day is that a gun in the hands of a potential victim is not improperly placed; it can be the only thing keeping her from being brutally raped and murdered.

Without my gun, I would not be alive today.


Guns are not the problem in America; men like my attacker -- who are willing to violently change one person’s life for no reason except for pure evil – are the problem.

Be safe at all times. Be aware of your surroundings. Trust your instincts. Always be able to protect yourself. Refuse to be a victim, and instead be a fighter and a survivor. Live to tell your tale and make a criminal regret the day he chose you as a “soft target.” My gun saved my life, and one could save yours too.
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Waking up to an armed intruder in your house would be any home owner’s worst nightmare. If you’re a single mother with two young kids in the house, finding a man wielding a machete in your bedroom closet immediately kicks you into “momma bear” mode.

That’s what happened to a California woman who woke up to the sound of a man rummaging through her walk-in closet. The thief — Ocean Burger (his name, not a restaurant) — was armed with a number of knives and a machete when the un-named woman grabbed a handgun and confronted him.

From ksbw.com . . .


[Investigators] say Burger ignored orders to leave and when the homeowner fired several warning shots he allegedly advanced towards her, that’s when the mother fired at the accused burglar hitting him in the leg. And California law may be on her side.

Warning shots are never a good idea and could even put you in legal jeopardy in many jurisdictions. In this case, they not only wasted perfectly good (and expensive) ammunition, but probably led Burger to believe she wasn’t serious about actually shooting him.

After advancing on the woman, the round in his leg apparently convinced Burger that he was wrong.

The good news is California actually has a castle doctrine law on the books. The woman had no duty to retreat and was legally justified in using deadly force to defend herself and her children.

“There is a presumption that favors the homeowner they’re presumed that the person is in imminent fear of either death or great bodily injury,” said Ellen Campos, assistant district attorney for San Benito county. …

 

[2aguy]

….Aaand we’re off to the races! The usual torrent mixture of BS and cherry picking.

Yes, rape and sexual assault reports have increased in the UK, why? Because more and more British women are coming forward to report these crimes, and that’s a good thing in the long term.

Yes, conviction rates are low, why? Because decades of right-wing Conservative governments in the UK have underfunded the police, which in turn, has exacerbated the fact that sadly, rape is difficult to prove in the best of circumstances. This is truly another scandal created by the Conservatives in the UK.

Will giving women guns, solve the problem?

Given that 80-85% of these assaults occur inside either the victim’s home or the perpetrator’s home, when one or both are intoxicated or drugged; and that the overwhelming majority of rapists are either current or ex-partners or friends and/or work colleagues, who know or have known the victim, probably not.

Around 10% of rapes in the UK are carried out by strangers in public areas, which brings me to your perpetual BS non-question.



There are several key issues here,

• Serial rapists are, by their nature, experienced. They, have over time, perfected their technique. I highly doubt, such a scumbag would approach the victim carrying a placard stating their intentions. Where details exist of such crimes the victim is taken out by a rapid surprise attack, giving the victim virtually no chance of putting up ant form of defence, never mind reaching for a gun.
• Can she stop the rape with her gun? An example, A woman is alone at night on a subway platform. After a while a man appears and walks towards her, he is 6’7” tall, black skinned and very well built. He is dressed in the uniform of the USMC. Is he likely to be a rapist?
• Another time an old man with a walking stick pushing a shopping trolley who hobbles over towards her; is he likely to be a rapist?
• On yet another occasion a young street thug approaches, He’s thin and wiry dressed in gang colours and heavily tattooed could he be a rapist?

In order to prevent the rape, the woman must shoot one or more of them, how does she decide which one to shoot? She has one or two seconds to make a decision before it’s too late. If she makes a wrong decision, she could either end up being attacked, or facing a life sentence in jail.

Merely having a gun does not guarantee or ensure safety. No situation is as clear cut as 2aguy would like to fantasize about.

Oh, and in answer to his “Trekkie time travel question”, no.

• Time travel is currently beyond our capabilities
• Interfering by changing a past event could have undreamed of ramifications for the present.

So you still refuse to answer the questions...because we know, that you choose the woman is raped, tortured, and murdered rather than having a gun to stop the attack....that is the only reason you won't answer the questions....because it reveals where you actually stand....

Here.....so we know what you believe...

A woman is grabbed by a violent serial rapist at a bus stop, a train platform or in her apartment...he plans on beating, raping and murdering her. She has a gun, and can stop the rape with the gun......


Do you want her to use that gun to stop the rape?


A woman stops an attack with a gun, a brutal rape, torture and murder...in a public space....if you had the ability to go back in time, and prevent her from having that gun...would you?

You answer no......and yes.......you are vile.