Posted on 12/19/2023 9:27:56 AM PST by rktman
“If you want to help domestic violence victims, encourage them to prepare to defend themselves. Stop telling them they are not capable of handling a firearm, and scaring them with skewed statistics that only demoralizes them. Fund programs that offer training and arm the women,” Watral said. Gun control groups voice the possibility if a woman has a gun in a violent situation, it will be taken and used against her. That is a possibility. What is more probable is that she will be overpowered by a man based only on his strength. I need a tool to be my equalizer to defend myself, and I choose a firearm. I want it to be my choice, not that of the government. I want to be my own protector.”
Geneva Soloman, a federal firearms licensee and gun store owner, said in the hearing that she was also a survivor of domestic violence.
“Firearm ownership not only armed me with a physical tool but also with a profound sense of empowerment. It turned a woman who had once cowered in fear into someone who stands tall, even in the face of adversity,” Solomon said. “In my role as a firearm owner and educator, I've met countless women with stories like mine. Through education and proper training, they too discovered their inner strength, realizing that firearms, when handled responsibly, can be a tool of empowerment.”
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“I need a tool to be my equalizer to defend myself, and I choose a firearm.”
Amen to THAT, Ladies!
Your story is more evidence that liberalism is a mental illness
Sidenote (unrelated to topic above), a book that may interest you, the Archko Volume:
https://www.friendsofsabbath.org/Further_Research/Bible/Archko%20Volume.pdf
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pg 136 the Archko Volume
“I was born the same day on which Augustus Caesar gave peace to the Roman world.”
From a paragraph in Pontius “PILATE’S REPORT” to Caesar
“’Prince of the earth,’ replied Jesus, ‘I come not to bring war into the world, but peace, love, and charity. I was born the same day on which Augustus Caesar gave peace to the Roman world. Persecutions proceed not from me. I expect it from others, and will meet it in obedience to the will of my Father, who has shown me the way. Restrain, therefore, your worldly prudence. It is not in your power to arrest the victim at the foot of the tabernacle of expiation.’
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January 30, 9 BC
Ara Pacis Augustae is a monument dedicated to Pax, the Roman goddess of Peace, and consecrated on January 30, 9 BC to Augustus Caesar.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_Pacis
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My wife is deadly accurate with hand gun or an AR. A shot gun is a bit much. And, our firearms are silenced, no shotgun is that way.
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