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Your knee-jerk opposition to the single most powerful tool women have to keep from becoming victims of crime--firearms--is appalling. Dragging it into a completely separate issue as you did here is one of the most misogynist and patriarchal things I've witnessed lately.

In your haste to inflict an elitist suburban Madison view on the vast and complex issue of the right to keep and bear arms, you erase the experience of countless millions of us queer, disabled, elder, minority, and atheist women who carry and use firearms. We are intelligent, competent tool users. We are not victims. Distort the facts all you want, but you are betraying your own anti-female opinions: that when a firearm is in the room, little fluffhead women have no role but to die.

That is a slap in the face of all of us who have fought all our lives to stay safe, and keep our loved ones safe, refusing the status of victim that you liberal upscale women like to inflict on others. Millions of times each year our mastery of firearms keeps us, and our loved ones, from being targeted as prey by others. When we ARE targeted, ballistics gives us the power to fight back. And win.

But you don't care about that. You instead trot out the PR propaganda from VPC. Then you expect us to take you seriously as PR debunkers?

Also, your thinking is ridiculously simplistic. Children are more likely to die of motor vehicle accidents and drowning than from any other accidental cause. Why aren't you also vilifying cars and swimming pools?

I don't need your protection. My SIG .40 and Kimber .45 give me all I need. And when I lived in Madison, and was being stalked by a crazy and violent drug addict, and for my personal defense was being handed a piece of paper by the courts, and given a lot of shouty feel-good nonsense by "feminist" "self defense" "trainers," what I really needed was Pink Pistols and Power For Women. Not a lot of gun-scaredey women-are-victims claptrap. Thank the gods I got away from all of you who cannot identify with a woman's power, only her victimization.