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I don't own a gun and I even refused one as a gift when I was in law school at night in DC after my day job. It was a derringer. I grew up in a house with guns in it in northern New Jersey. My father had them and even allowed me to site them at paper targets when I was a child under ten and then he pulled the trigger. He also taught me never, ever to point a gun toward another human being. Neither were we so badly off that he had to kill animals, so he never hunted.
Should I, as a woman, buy a gun? women have been subjects of aggression for all of time, even by relatives. Other folks have been subject to aggression on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity. Should we all be heavily armed?
Should we all be heavily armed?
Heavily, no.
Having one for self defnse?
Yes
You don't know what you are getting into. I was subjected as a teenager by an older man who pinned me against a wall, this happened again when I was a young woman in college. Should I have had a gun and shot them? These people put their hands on me and blocked my way.
if you had pulled that derringer, would you have needed to pull the trigger?
Or would the sight of it served as a deterrent?
Different situations. I refused the derringer when I was in my thirties. Being slammed against walls was teenage and 20s in college. Many people have finally told their stories in the age of @MeToo. Should a girl or woman being subjected to such behavior just shoot the guy doing it? There will be a lot of dead bodies.
In all honesty, you sound like one of those people who probably shouldn't carry a weapon. Sorry for the bad treatment you received in your past, but deeply-seated emotional grudges are probably not the best reason to carry something that could immediately snuff out another person's life.
Although you're probably not an "asshole" per se, you do forfeit your right to be one when you carry a weapon.
That's just my two cents worth.
People who insist on carrying something that could immediately snuff out another person's life ARE people who carry deeply-seated emotional grudges. You people seem to think think that I should have shot and killed these people who assaulted me. I didn't kill them.
You people seem to think think that I should have shot and killed these people who assaulted me.
I don't remember anyone saying that.