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In reply to the discussion: Who kills women with guns? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)83. Of course, the trick is not to hook up with violent men. My gun has saved me...
before, in an attempted break-in. By a stranger.
Without a gun, a woman is a sitting duck. A gun evens the score a bit. Yes, it could be used against you. But men don't NEED a gun to kill a woman. They can reach out & strangle her without her even being able to reach his body (his arms are longer). Or he could hit her over the head with something. I watch those true crime stories. There are a myriad of ways that men kill women (which is often). Whether the men are strangers or boyfriends, it doesn't matter, does it? She's dead, either way.
BTW...the fact that a woman is killed with a gun by a man she knows doesn't mean it was her gun. In fact, it was probably his, since few women own guns.
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i think there has been too much attention given to the "scary strange man in the streets"
JI7
Jun 2013
#5
You only laugh because you yourself wouldn't be subject to the invasion of privacy
NutmegYankee
Jun 2013
#49
Most people who own cars never kill anyone with them either. But we still register them and
Squinch
Jun 2013
#76
I expect some reasonable legislation to be forthcoming over the next few years.
Lizzie Poppet
Jun 2013
#37
She is at far greater risk of being killed because of having a gun in the house
BainsBane
Jun 2013
#36
You have already decided to believe that, no matter what studies are posted.
GreenStormCloud
Jun 2013
#75
Of course, the trick is not to hook up with violent men. My gun has saved me...
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#83
It's very clear that a gun in the home makes a woman far more vulnerable to murder
BainsBane
Jun 2013
#85
I don't think the evidence is clear at all. Whether a gun is used or not, it is clear
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#86
You apply the lessons personally, but they should not take them that way?
Threedifferentones
Jun 2013
#121
just complete your bigotry circle already and get to the racial spreads of violence in America...
galileoreloaded
Jun 2013
#138