I don’t know. To be honest, I have only shot a couple of times at a range. I don’t own guns but have been thinking about it lately. I worry I am too old (61) to start now but things are getting so bad that I can see why people want to be armed.
I fear a breakdown of society eventually and it will be every person for themselves. Maybe I’m getting paranoid in my old age. But my in-laws who live in Florida are very well-armed. My plan is to head down there if things really get bad.
Oops. What I said was unclear. You're absolutely right that everyone should be armed because of the new hazards facing us. All I was commenting on was the emphasis the NRA seemed to be putting on female—as opposed to male—firearms instructors. I just don't know any actual students, male or female, who said, "Gosh, I wish I had a female instructor" when it came to learning the ropes.
We live in a highly mobile society, and bad guys slither around a lot. And I think it's been rare in the course of history that ordinary people didn't need to be armed for protection in their houses and when they traveled.