At IWF, we care about facts and believe that women need to know the truth about gun control, and why they should oppose it. For women, by far the safest course of action when confronted by a criminal is to have a gun.
Guns are the great equalizer between the sexes.
The answer is yes, it will. Jr. In 98 percent of the times that people use guns defensively, they merely have to brandish a weapon to break off an attack. Among 15.7 percent of gun defenders interviewed nationwide in 1994, the defender believed that someone almost certainly would have died had the gun not been used for protection a life saved by a privately held gun about once every 1.3 minutes. Deterrence matters not only to those who actively take defensive actions. In all other states the rate was 81 percent higher or 684.5 per 100,000 population.