A majority of rapes are done by someone the victims know; many of them happen on dates. Unless guns are a part of some kinky foreplay, I can't see how women would be prepared to use their licensed, high-powered self-defense in many of these cases.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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