A true story from the mouth of a lady who is tired of depending on others to protect her……. armed women prevent/stop domestic violence…..
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Subj: Re: SASChat: VPC=ANTI GUN
Date: 11/12/2001 6:36:46 PM Eastern Standard Time
From: nbhsteacher@ (Neva LaRue)
Reply-to: saschat@
To: saschat@

Speaking as a former battered woman, I will say that of course we
face more danger from our abusers if they shoot us… but I would add
that in 24 years of abuse, not once did my (now ex-) husband use a
gun… 1 in 3 women is assaulted by someone she knows in her
lifetime, 1 in 4 suicides among white women are attempted by women in
abusive relationships, 1 in 2 Black women in abusive relationships
attempt suicide… the figures are true, but they do not address the
reality… that most women who are abused are beaten… I have been
punched, tackled, kicked, even hit with a screwdriver…. but never
shot… what will be outlawed next because of a faulty train of
logic? Hands, fist, feet, shoulders, screwdrivers? We have laws in
place to deal with assaults, and assaults with deadly weapons… if
we want to address the problem of women being abused by any method,
we need to address the abusers and the abuse; not waste energy and
resources on worrying about what weapon they used to abuse with,
especially when the “weapon” is not even close to the one most
frequently employed…

A neighbor of mine, five years younger than I, was recently beaten to
death… kicked into a coma that ended in death several days later…
he had beaten her before but never been jailed for it… this time it
ended in her death…

I was beaten repeatedly…. had a PPO that was violated repeatedly…
the police knew that I was being beaten, the hospital knew, the
doctors knew, the judge knew… he came back again and again… he
had no gun as far as I knew… I’ve had three surgeries to repair
various body parts and live every day with an aortic aneurysm that
will not be repaired unless or until it becomes ruptured… if his
behavior was addressed by the legal system in the way it ought to
have been, much of that would never have happened… no need to
address whether he was armed or not in any case….

I appear in front of my local gun board Wednesday to, I hope, be
approved for my CPL…. after that, I can protect myself….

Thank God.