Both of them told me they wanted to be able to use guns and protect themselves after a recent event here. The local report about the woman home alone with her children when a very larged Amish man drove up in the driveway and broke in the house.
Long story short he chased her into an upstairs attic closet and when he opened the door she hit him 5 times with her revolver. Incredulously, he is still alive in the hospital....The police were nowhere to be seen until it was all over.
Little Psycho Wendy was LUCKY, period. Police actually got there before she got raped and murdered. Usually stories here in Georgia go "Police found one, two, three bodies in an apartment/house at......"
Yeah, my wife and kids can shoot all of my weapons including AK-varients, AR-varients, shot guns, and pistols. My wife and daughter are both very good with a pistol (wife is definitely better than me). My son is a great shot with all weapons.
As for liberals being afraid of firearms and thinking that the police will protect them, they are wrong on both accounts. Familiarity and training make for the safe operation and ownership of firearms. The journalist who wrote the article was very lucky that nothing bad happened to her, but in her case, suffering from depression and requiring medication, she may want to marry a guy to take care of her or possibly get a very large and protective dog.
The police do the best they can but usually they arrive just in time to draw a chalk line around you. So, in all things, it makes sense to be as self-sufficient as possible.