The problem is that you generally need to be 18 or 21 to qualify for a CCW. This is why I had my 14-yo daughter trained in knife fighting and made sure she carries one wherever she goes. A bad guy generally will not expect a suburban teen girl to be armed
Yeah, I had a couple of my buddies drop by the house when they came home on block leave from their SOCOM assignment at MacDill AFB. They showed my daughter a few of the nastiest down and dirty street KILLING techniques I've ever seen. She was about 14 then as well. I'm not talking martial arts here... This was stuff she could learn once, never practice it and will work the first time she really commits to a strike. We made sure she understood just what she was doing and what were the consequences to her attacker, lest she use them and not be really needing them. She still thanks those guys, and me for those lessons.