[appleseed]

My wife was a missionary in Mexico and on Indian reservatins out in the west many years ago. She faced rape situations with nothing more than what she had at hand. Thank God in every case she repelled her attackers with whatever she had on hand. Things are different now, she now has the means to repel in a deadly way. God have mercy upon anyone that comes in my AO when I'm not there. She is armed and knows how to use it.

I have dial-up and waited for several minutes for the pdf site to load. Here's the meat of the article:

Women who used knives or guns in self-defence were raped less than 1% of the time. Defensive use of edged or projectile weapons reduced the rate of injury to statistical insignificance.

[KarlInOhio]

It makes you wonder why those who say if women resist they are more likely to be hurt. The statistics aren't even close enough where they could fudge them with different sampling methods or definition changes. Why are they so eager to keep women from resisting that they openly lie about it?

[appleseed]

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[Huntress]

Here's an excellent comment from a poster at the linked blog:

I have drilled this into my daughter's head:

1 - someone WILL NOT take you to a second location - to go to a second location means you will AT LEAST get raped and probably killed as well...

2 - you WILL get ANGRY at the suggested use of violence towards you

3 - you WILL yell FIRE and run and scream

4 - I don't care if they have a weapon, you will do all of the above.

There are also statistics on if you run the chances that someone will shoot - the likelihood that they will hit you - the likelihood it will be a survivable injury and the likelihood it will be a mortal wound. If I remember correctly, its like a 20% chance it will be a mortal wound - with those odds I want my daughter to run for her life! And that is IF they shoot (or even have a gun) which depending on the location - crowded mall parking lot or something - they probably wont do....

[hiredhand]

My wife uses the handgun, or AR-15, or pump 12ga methods...depending on where she is. :-)

[kaehurowing]

Carry concealed in purse. Pull out and aim at chest. Fire until empty even if they go down. Makes sure the job is done and saves taxpayers the cost of a trial, plus avoids the strong possibility they will just get let loose to attack other women in the future.

[metmom]

ping

[SuziQ]

Forceful physical resistance is slightly more successful than running. Those women were raped 14% of the time. Striking was more successful than pushing or wrestling.

Our daughter took a RAD (Rape Aggressive Defense) class when she was in Senior Girl Scouts. A couple of detectives from our local police force taught the class. They taught the girls all kinds of attack moves, and on the final night of class, the girls got to put their new knowledge into practice. The detectives suited up in padding from head to foot, then told the girls to do their worst. Each girl got the chance to fight off her 'attacker', and they were wailing on those guys! They all did a great job, and we moms were proud as could be.

I also bought her a very LOUD whistle for her to keep with her when she's walking or riding her bike on campus. Found it at Duluth Trading, and put it in her stocking last Christmas.

[GOPJ]

Finally women who resisted using a knife or a gun were raped less than 1% of the time.

But, but Rosie tells women if they hire 7 security guards like she has that they'll be just fine...

[LibFreeOrDie]