Most Mass Shootings Target Women and Families; Study Finds Men With Legal Guns Are to Blame

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18. Depends...

"3. Convincing women to buy guns is a marketing strategy, not a public service. Despite gun manufacturer’s rhetoric about protecting women, the reality is that selling women guns is about profit, not protection—as demonstrated above, having a gun in the home is not a guarantee for safety, and actually endangers the 960,000 women who experience domestic violence each year. "

For situations where the woman still has contact with the aggressor, having a gun in the home might be bad. Certainly so if the aggressor actually has access to the home for visitation, or is still living there in some capacity.

For women who have cut off contact, I think you would see a significant delta from the above scenario, on whether the firearm she possesses represents a greater threat to her than no firearm at all.

We need more peer reviewed research on the vagaries of these situations. That's for certain.


Now, it's important to keep expectations in line. It's not a magic shield. 2 years ago, a female co-worker of mine was staying at a friend's apartment, in hiding. She had a CPL and a firearm. Didn't save her. Shitbag figured out where she was staying, waited in the parking lot, walked up behind her and shot her in the back of the head. If you don't see it coming, you don't even get a chance to fight. A firearm is just a force multiplier, not a magic shield. In that case, her firearm didn't increase the risk to herself, at least not directly. But she didn't get a chance to use it defensively, either.