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The thrust of the article is that a symbol of breast cancer awareness on a firearm is inappropriate because firearms are a common cause of violent deaths of women. A lot of the comments suggest that there are significant numbers of women who defend themselves from violent crime with handguns. It seems to me that pro-gun people should know the numbers, not be asking for them. I'm not against guns. I'm just interested in learning the number of women who successfully defend themselves from violent crime by wielding a gun. Who keeps such statistics? It would be enlightening to know which is higher, the number of women who die by firearms or the number of women who live by firearms? It would also be interesting to know, since so many violent crimes against women are committed by people they know, how gun action by women is treated by law enforcement and the courts.