Gun Control: Are Women Affected Most??

[KevinWestern]

PREMISE: Let's say that through some theoretical decree the government was able to remove ALL GUNS from society. For this post, there are no guns in a given society.

In this scenario, is a woman who lives in a high crime area - for example - less or more safe?

It's reasonable to assume a woman with a handgun has a 50/50 chance in subduing a male attacker with a handgun. But in this gunless society, i think it's also reasonable to assume that her odds are MUCH worse with hand-to-hand combat with a male attacker or knife vs knife, etc. Right?

Police don't arrive instantly, remember. Holding off someone for 10 minutes can mean the difference between being raped (or worse). Roughly 90,000 cases of rape are reported in the US annually (so this isn't some obscure thing I'm talking about here).

Are females ultimately less safe in a gun-free society due to physical differences between the sexes?

I think this will make for an interesting discussion...

 

[ClosedCaption]

Women are less safe in any society compared to men

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Yes

Department of Justice Statistics:

You are far more likely to survive
a violent assault if you defend yourself with a gun.

Resisting with a gun 6%
Did nothing at all 25%
Resisted with a knife 40%
Non-violent resistance 45%

U.S. Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, Rape Victimization in 26 American Cities, 1979 60
Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey 61
U.S. Department of Justice 62
U.S. Department of Justice 63
British Home Office – no a pro-gun organization by any mean

From these same studies.

Of the 2,500,000 annual self-defense cases using guns, more than 7.7% are by women
defending themselves against sexual abuse.
Fact:
When a woman was armed with a gun or knife, only 3% of the attempted rapes are
successful, 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: offering no resistance is 1.4 times more likely to result in serious injury than
resisting with a gun.

Fact:
27% of women keep a gun in the house.

Fact:
37.6 million 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. The number of rapes dropped by nearly 90%.

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/55878NCJRS.pdf

 

[KevinWestern]

Women are less safe in any society compared to men

The question (please answer directly) is:

Which female has a better fighting chance?
A (125 lb) woman w/a gun vs a (200lb) man with a gun
A (125 lb) woman w/a fist vs a (200lb) man with a fist

 

[ClosedCaption]

Women are less safe in any society compared to men

The question (please answer directly) is:

Which female has a better fighting chance?
A (125 lb) woman w/a gun vs a (200lb) man with a gun
A (125 lb) woman w/a fist vs a (200lb) man with a fist

Impossible to know. This is like asking "How long is a piece of string?"

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Women are less safe in any society compared to men

The question (please answer directly) is:

Which female has a better fighting chance?
A (125 lb) woman w/a gun vs a (200lb) man with a gun
A (125 lb) woman w/a fist vs a (200lb) man with a fist

The answer to this question is answered, directly, in my post.

 

[Bombur]

The legislation being considered mostly revolves around specific types of guns and certain types of people obtaining guns.

HTH

 

[ScienceRocks]

Depends. woman's within the inner-city with a violent boy friend or a thug trying to break into the home. I am sure they're effected in a bad way.

 

[KevinWestern]

Women are less safe in any society compared to men

The question (please answer directly) is:

Which female has a better fighting chance?
A (125 lb) woman w/a gun vs a (200lb) man with a gun
A (125 lb) woman w/a fist vs a (200lb) man with a fist

Impossible to know. This is like asking "How long is a piece of string?"

Lol, come on man. Don't be purposefully idiotic. Please.

The answer is quite obvious that the women has a much better chance with a gun.

 

[Little-Acorn]

The question (please answer directly) is:

Which female has a better fighting chance?
A (125 lb) woman w/a gun vs a (200lb) man with a gun
A (125 lb) woman w/a fist vs a (200lb) man with a fist

Impossible to know. This is like asking "How long is a piece of string?"

Lol, come on man. Don't be purposefully idiotic. Please.

The answer is quite obvious that the women has a much better chance with a gun.

The next question becomes:

Since it is impossible to remove all guns from a society, especially ones where machine shops are common and materials to make zip guns are even more common....

...if you make laws saying nobody is allowed to own or carry a gun at all for any purpose, NOW who is safer?

(a) A law-abiding person in the guns-forbidden-by-law society, while criminals build or buy guns anyway; or
(b) a law-abiding person in a society where gun ownership and carry is freely allowed?

Keep in mind that the law-abiding person in the society where ownership and carry is freely allowed, will often choose not to bother carrying anyway. But in any crowd, there's a good chance that a few law-abiding people ARE carrying. And a criminal won't know which ones they are, or where. But if he tries to mug or rape somebody, he'll find out pretty quickly... and he knows it.

 

[jknowgood]

In a liberals mind they would need to find out if it was a black man rapping a white woman or if it a white man rapping a black woman. Because in the liberal mind, the black guy is the victim. To stay on topic, a woman is much safer possessing a gun.

 

[Bombur]

In a liberals mind they would need to find out if it was a black man rapping a white woman or if it a white man rapping a black woman. Because in the liberal mind, the black guy is the victim. To stay on topic, a woman is much safer possessing a gun.

Trollin with the crazy again I see...

 

[jknowgood]

In a liberals mind they would need to find out if it was a black man rapping a white woman or if it a white man rapping a black woman. Because in the liberal mind, the black guy is the victim. To stay on topic, a woman is much safer possessing a gun.

Trollin with the crazy again I see...

You looking in the mirror when you thought of that?