Mothers who care should pack heat

by Jon E. Dougherty
? 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

Any dude that says guns, gun rights and the
ability to carry concealed weapons is strictly a man’s business has never met the Second
Amendment Sisters but should; they’d make you proud.
For one thing, they aren’t your average “soccer
mom” crowd. Yes, some members may have
kids who play soccer, but this group has no time
for, nor love of, the liberal anti-gun hysteria
usually promoted by the typical soccer-mom
mentality.
For another thing, these gals — who believe that
women especially are vulnerable to violent(usually male) criminal attacks — are tired of
their liberal sisters (and brothers) making them
easy prey. No more, they say; enough already
with the stupid gun control laws. They — like
millions of other Americans — are tired of just scratching their heads, wondering why so many
of them get raped, beaten, robbed or attacked
violently every year.
They know the answer; for the most part, it’s
because they cannot — by law — defend
themselves adequately. And adequately means
with a firearm. Most big cities, where most of
the violent crime in this country occurs, do not
allow free moms and other citizens to pack heat. They pass laws preventing reasonable means of armed self-defense so these moms — and thousands of others — can be more easily attacked, killed, mutilated and sexually abused.
These moms are wondering: “How is this
helping create a safer society?” It’s not, they are discovering. They’re not alone in asking such a painfully obvious question, but as a group,mothers in America have only just begun to wonder if liberal gun control isn’t actually getting more of them killed every year than laws forbidding them from being armed.
The solution, mothers are discovering once they
examine the alternatives, is firearms. Only a
firearm in the hands of a smaller, more frail and susceptible female can “equalize” a
confrontation with a 250-pound gorilla in search
of his next victim — or his next victim’s children.
But it’s more than just that. These gals want
people to know they are moms too — and while
they value the lives of their children every bit as much as soccer moms, Second Amendment
Sisters and Armed Informed Mothers realize
well-protected liberal lawmakers passing ill-conceived gun control laws don’t equal protection for women, mothers, and children.
They just don’t.
These mommas want to be able to protect their kids from violence instead of letting them
become statistics. And the best way — not the
only way, just the best way — for mothers to
achieve this goal, they believe, is by becoming
armed.
Their conclusion shines with truth. Numerous
studies by Yale legal professor John R. Lott,
who has conducted the most extensive studies
of guns and gun laws over the past several
years, say that more guns in more hands of law
abiding persons equals less crime. FBI statistics, which demonstrate a huge reduction of crime in the past decade, seldom mention this phenomenon. But these mothers, and millions
of gun owners, know that the resultant fall in
violent crime coupled with an increase in
concealed carry laws and an increase in firearms
sales equals less violent crime. The dots are easy to connect if you just keep an open mind.
So these mothers are finally beginning to
publicly ask the all-important questions of other mothers (and fathers) who are equally
concerned about their safety and the safety of
their kids:
With so many gun laws already on the
books, how come “gun crimes” still exist?
If guns are effective enough to be a
criminal’s preferred tool, why are they not
good enough to use for protection?
How is it that lawmakers insist their
bodyguards be armed but not you and I?
If you and your children were face to face
with a male attacker twice your size, what
would you do — if you weren’t armed?
If guns are “too dangerous” to be in our
society, how come our leaders want to be
the only ones who have them? Do you
trust our leaders implicitly to protect you
— at all times?
Which is better — more gun control and the
eventual banning of all guns in our
society, or sitting by helplessly watching
as some intruder repeatedly rapes your
13-year-old daughter?
If we ever completely ban guns, do you think there will be no more armed criminals in America?