So, how am I supposed to fight off a male attacker, who is probably both bigger and stronger than I am? What if there are more than one of them? The same way thousands of other women accomplish this—by being armed and skillful in my handgun’s use. By being armed and knowing what to do I can take back control over my own life. I do not carry a pistol so I can impose my will on someone else. I carry a pistol so someone else cannot impose their will on me!

– Lynn Givens (emphasis added)

Lynn writes about firearms training from a ladies’ perspective in the May 2012 issue of the Rangemanster newsletter.

Gun control (anti-gun) advocates view guns as bad things that are only capable of bringing about evil things. They are tools used by bad people to bring harm and havoc to good people. They cannot see that good people can use them in good ways.

Let’s go back to Lynn for a moment.

I came to this realization some years ago when I was being stalked by a mentally disturbed man who made credible death threats against me, my family, and others. The police and private investigators were looking into these death threats, but were unable to do anything. I never thought I would have to pick up a gun until someone tried to take my and my son’s choices out of our hands. It then became very real when I found my picture on the front page of the newspaper in an article about crime.

So you tell me… what should Lynn have done? Do you truly think a restraining order would keep her and her son alive? Yelling “NO!” and issuing a palm strike to the nose wasn’t going to cut it. Pepper spray or a taser isn’t going to be all that effective against someone bent on killing her. So you tell me, what should she have done? What would you have her do, since you, the gun-banner, think she shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun to enable her to preserve her and her son’s lives against this man? Would you, the gun-banner, be willing to guard Lynn all day and all day, every day, every week, every month, be willing to put your life on the line to protect her? If so, awesome. If not, then why not? And then again, what should she do?

A firearm is a force equalizer. I know Lynn, and while I know what a determined fighter she is, she’s still vulnerable. That Smith & Wesson M&P on her hip allows her to even the odds. It allows those who are weaker, older, of lesser stature — and believe me, for every badass guy you can think of, there’s someone bigger and badder out there — to stand on more solid ground against those who wish to do evil unto them. Why do anti-gun folks want the elderly, the frail, women, children, anyone to be at the mercy of those who wish to do them harm?