It’s refreshing when you find a liberal that’s willing to consider our point of view.
“I don’t own a gun but I know plenty of educated black women who do. These are working- and middle-class women, some of them single and some with families, and statistics support what I see. According to a National Shooting Sports Foundation report, 78.6 percent of retailers reported an increase in the number of women buying guns in 2012. Although a 2013 Pew research report reveals that gun ownership remains overwhelmingly white and male, black women made up the fastest growing purchasers of concealed handguns in Texas between the years 2007 and 2012. J. Victoria Sanders, a black Texan and journalist, reported this trend in a 2011 article detailing the increased marketing of guns to women and Sanders’ own journey toward gun ownership.”
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This movement toward guns seems a rational decision for black women when you consider some of our experiences. Historically, black women have been left unprotected as a matter of law and custom..
Source: http://www.salon.com/2013/11/05/who_will_protect_us_why_im_still_conflicted_about_guns_as_a_black_feminist/
Remarkably, she also shares a tale of armed self-defense:
As a young adult, I did know that my best friend’s mother carried a handgun in her purse. One day, someone tried to snatch this purse in the parking lot at Kmart and my mother’s friend, who is about 5 feet tall, held onto her purse and thwarted the robbery when she pulled out her pistol and shot into the air.
Source: Idem
Of course, shooting into the air can get you into a lot of trouble, but either way, she’s alive and that’s what matters.
More than 30 years after a gun was pointed squarely in my face, I have resisted buying a firearm for protection. But I have not ruled out the possibility that I will. It crosses my mind when the occasional oddball shows up at my door unannounced. If I buy a gun, it will be to protect myself and my children inside of our house, which is on a sloped street at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. I agree with my childhood friend that such communities can deceive us. We admire blooming hollyhock and leaf-blown lawns, but the truth is, violent histories hover over all American streets.
Source: Idem
Well lady, I do hope you come to your senses and buy a gun while it remains legal to do so. Owning a gun doesn’t make you less of a feminist anymore than owning a hammer makes you more of a carpenter. It’s a tool, a great self-defense tool. Better than a sword which is only as strong as the arm that wields it, or a bat, or a crowbar. Guns are simple, even someone that has never shot before can successfully use them for self-defense.
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