If you type in "pink rifle" in the search bar of iTunes, you will find a podcast that covers the feminine side of gun use. One podcast features a 911 call that they play for the listener. It is about a woman with an aggressive stalker. A man who had previously broken into her home, slashed her tires, and consistently harrassed her even after she had restraining orders on him, simply because she refused to have a dating relationship with him. That night as she sat on the phone with the 911 call center, the man began to beat on her back door. After retreating to an upstairs bedroom she heard him break a window and enter her house. After she reported that he had made it up the stairs, the operator asked her if he had a weapon. She said that she didn't know but that she had a gun. After the operator confirms that the woman has the gun in her hands she tells her not to do anything rash. The phone is put down as the man begins to beat down her locked bedroom door. You can hear her across the room from the phone, crying and screaming for him to leave. The door crashes down and the noise is so loud that it is difficult to distinguish the clamor from the two rounds she fires off at him. You hear her still crying and screaming as he shouts "what are you trying to do? Kill me?" With that she fires off the thrid and final round. All that's left is her sobs, the operator calling out to her, and the sirens in the distance.
At the end of the call tape, the podcaster describes a bit more about what transpired during the final loud and confusing moments. Apparently, he barged in and came at her. The final shot was actually fired while he was attepting to strangle her. The gun was one given to her by a friend the day before who was worried about her safety due to the man's aggressive and violent advances. The man died with that third and final shot.
What would have happened if she had not had a gun? She could not have defended herself against him without it and he would have killed her -you only have to listen to the recording to tell that much. What is really awful is that you don't hear sirens until the very end. That means that she would have been dead by the time to police arrived if she had not had a gun.
People need guns for protection. Period.
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A very interesting story, i have not taken the time to actually listen to said podcast, however, i will agree that every person needs at least some form of protection from people like the man she was dealing with. Now, whether this protection be a gun or some for m omartial arts, everybody needs protection at some point.
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