Below is the post from the Independent Women’s Forum. They also have the post there in Spanish.
Gun control hurts women. You won’t hear that from professional anti-gun groups like Handgun Control, Inc. They are using women and manipulating the facts to get the political outcome they want: abolishing legal gun ownership. At IWF, we care about facts and believe that women need to know the truth about gun control, and why they should oppose it. For women, by far the safest course of action when confronted by a criminal is to have a gun. The number of rapes in states with non-discretionary concealed handgun laws is 25% lower than in states that restrict or forbid women to carry concealed handguns. Guns are the great equalizer between the sexes. Here are facts you should know:
CRIME DETERRENCE
“The size and strength of my deterrence results and the lack of evidence that holders of permits for concealed handguns commit crimes should at least give pause to those who oppose concealed handguns. In the final analysis, one concern unites us all: Will allowing law-abiding citizens to carry concealed handguns save lives? The answer is yes, it will.” – John R. Lott, Jr. In 98 percent of the times that people use guns defensively, they merely have to brandish a weapon to break off an attack. (More Guns Less Crime,John R. Lott, Jr., p. 3.)
Among 15.7 percent of gun defenders interviewed nationwide in 1994, the defender believed that someone “almost certainly” would have died had the gun not been used for protection — a life saved by a privately held gun about once every 1.3 minutes. (“Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-defense with a Gun” by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University School of Law, Fall, 1995.)
“Citizens shoot and kill at least twice as many criminals as police do every year: 1,527 to 606. (Gun Owners Foundation Firearms Fact Sheet, 1999, cited to Gary Kleck, “Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America,” 1991.) …