Guest article by a raped woman. Saturday, March 17th, 2007
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I’m 5′2″ and after taking martial arts for 3 years (after being raped, as a way of preventing it happening again) I learned that a 5′2″ female martial artist is no match for a 6′2″ male martial artist, and other assorted real limitations of martial arts.
So I got a gun and learned to shoot and got my concealed carry permit. And was damned glad to have that gun when a thug tried to follow me up the stairs into my apartment one afternoon when, due to a holiday, I was home early and the place was otherwise deserted.
I didn’t have to actually draw on him, confronting him verbally got him to go away, but I was 7 months pregnant and it was a very near thing and as a result of my “delicate condition” martial arts wouldn’t have done me a damned bit of good.
I have no idea if I’d have been less confident in confronting him if I hadn’t known I had a gun concealed but in easy reach for a fast draw if needed.
I’m “attracted to guns” because for a little tiny woman like me, my having a gun can mean the difference between my being raped and murdered, or my surviving an attack unscathed to go home to my family that night.
Living through a rape was bad enough the first time. I don’t intend to let it happen again.
by Julia Cochrane
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