Dang, that was well said. Libertarian here, but moreover my family has history of selling guns to African Americans when that wasn’t in fashion explicitly so they could fire on KKK. I still carry in my heart the family ideal that no person should be put in bondage and everyone has the right to resist with the most effective equipment available.

Clarification/correction for: “While only ~3% of the women not armed with a firearm that are attacked for purposes of rape annually manage to escape serious harm and rape by fleeing…”

This should have been…

While only ~3% of the women not armed with a firearm that are attacked for purposes of rape annually manage to escape serious harm and rape by fleeing (or using other means of non-firearm defense i.e. barricading in the home, knives, club objects, mace/pepper spray, Byrna, hand-feet-hand-to-hand-combat skills, fighting, calling 911, etc….)

The gun control industry uses women as ‘props’ to push their narrative. They get upset when they ‘props’ are taken from them.

As an example I’m going to use Everytown but its the whole gun control industry using women as ‘props’ to push their narrative;

When we look at the Everytown ‘narrative’ concerning women we see this – “Every month, an average of more than 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner. Nearly 6 million women reported having a gun used on them by an intimate partner.”

That’s horrible. And if it was all true, its even more horrible. So although such things are horrible, the Everytown narrative ignores that around 7,000 times daily across the United States (collectively) defenseless women are assaulted or beaten or stabbed or cut or strangled or raped or burned or tortured, sometimes all of those, or sometimes killed outright, by ‘intimate partners’ and there was no gun involved. If Everytown is about saving lives as they claim then why do they not bother to mention these defenseless victims in their narratives? Its because women to them are ‘props’ to use to push their anti-gun narrative.

But lets go a little further into the ‘prop’ use by Everytown and the whole gun control industry. If Everytown and the gun control industry is about saving lives as they claim then why do they not bother to mention (just a few categories listed below):

* 38% of women that are attacked for purposes of rape annually are armed with a firearm and successfully use defensive gun use to save their selves from serious harm and rape. While only ~3% of the women not armed with a firearm that are attacked for purposes of rape annually manage to escape serious harm and rape by fleeing – all the rest not armed with a firearm, even though sometimes ‘armed’ with or have other ‘defense’ (i.e. trying to flee, barricading in the home, knives, club objects, mace/pepper spray, Byrna, hand-feet-hand-to-hand-combat skills, fighting, calling 911, etc….) do not escape serious harm and rape.

* Thousands of people annually who are victims of a violent criminal attack use a firearm to save their lives or the lives of family members or lives of someone else.

*The hundreds of lives saved from a mentally ill mass shooter, by an ordinary law abiding armed citizen using their firearm. Not just once in a while. Although over time there have been hundreds of such incidents where an ordinary law abiding armed citizen stopped an in progress mass-shooting – there have been many more prevented every year before they could meet the anti-gun definition of ‘4 or more’ so you don’t see it listed as a mass shooting and the media leaves it alone and doesn’t report on it, prevented by an ordinary law abiding armed citizen using a firearm. Literally thousands of lives saved.

So the question is … If Everytown and the gun control industry is about saving lives as they claim then why do they not bother to mention these thousands of lives saved by ordinary law abiding armed citizens using their firearm to save lives?

If Everytown and the gun control industry is about saving lives as they claim then why do we not see press releases and social media posts from Everytown and the gun control industry highlighting and celebrating these lives saved ? They will go on and on about a mentally ill mass/school shooter or other criminal, making sure every little detail is show cased and highlighted, and about how many killed or injured by ‘gun violence’, yet ignore the thousands of lives saved by ordinary law abiding armed citizens using their firearm to save lives. Sure doesn’t seem to me that Everytown and the gun control industry is about saving lives as they claim, seems they are more about using people as ‘props’ to push their narrative.

Everytown and the gun control industry have been hiding a simple truth all these years, one they do not want women or others to realize. That simple truth is ‘you are your own first responder’.

So why is the gun control industry so freaked out about more women owning guns? Its because it takes their ‘props’ away from them, and they do not like it when you take their ‘props away from them. Many woman have realized, as have others, that simple truth: you are your own first responder.

So you can spam the thread with over ten comments that have nothing to do with the subject?

“It just so happens that Democrats are bleeding members of their long-abused base namely women and minorities.”

To say nothing about how Latino men are flocking to our side in the voting booth.

That *alone* will doom their plan to get a hard lock on the American electorate. For years they have been cheering the old fat white guys dying off, convinced the surging Latino vote will secure their vote.

Surprise! 😉

Dems are already gloating over presidential immunity. A president cannot be sued for damages for official acts. However, this immunity does *not* extend to criminal actions. What Obama did was very intentional and, I assume, criminal.

The automatic hiding/deleting of comments is beyond stupid at this point and I am no longer expending much effort to provide comments.

https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2025/07/23/uss-midway-collision-drunk-boater-n2416087

Democrat Elizabeth Warren went full socialist and backs NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s plan for government-run grocery stores. She says “”It’s been tried in other cities around the country and has had some real successes.”

… and she pointed out one of these ‘successes’ and here it is

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1948028166359933380