Women, Guns and Self Defense
"... [Some say that] only a small percentage of violent crimes against women are committed by strangers. To a woman who awakens to see a stranger crawling through her window and heading toward her bed, he is not a small percentage. He is a 100 percent fiend. But if she had a pistol under her pillow and knew how to use it, she could make him a 100 percent corpse. And the world would be a far better place....Imagine, if you will, that men were society's prime rape targets. ... I'll tell you what the result would be. Men would not ask for workshops and self-esteem counseling or wear rape whistles around their necks. They would demand the right to protect themselves, politicians would promptly respond, and it would soon be legal to pack mini-cannons in our belts..." Mike Royko, late great Chicago columnist
We're going to review and recommend the best handguns for women to use for self defense. This is NOT the right place for hunters, competitive shooters or would-be soldierettes of fortune.
We're for the woman who wants to buy a gun without being humiliated by a snooty male salesclerk, become competent enough to use it in an emergency and then hope she never has to use it.
