With the passing of Dolly Parton, I came across this in the article I’m sharing:
“I didn’t know how to get him off me so I just pulled my gun out and I said, ‘If you touch me one more time I’m gonna shoot you.’”
And there we have it.
Why armed women are, in fact, safer. Because they are armed.
Dolly didn’t have to be stronger than the man confronting her. She didn’t have to physically overpower him. She didn’t have to wait for someone else to come to her rescue.
She had a gun.
The moment she made it clear she was armed, the physical advantage he may have had no longer mattered. She had the means to defend herself against someone who might otherwise have overpowered her.
That is what “the gun is the great equalizer” means.
For women especially, being armed can eliminate one of the most fundamental disadvantages in a violent confrontation: the difference in physical strength between a woman and an attacker.
A firearm doesn’t make a woman invulnerable. But it can give her something that physical strength alone may not: the ability to defend herself when she is physically outmatched.
And for those who don’t know, the President and Founder of Jews Can Shoot is a woman. A Jewish woman.
The gun is the great equalizer.
On Tuesday, August 25, the nation mourned the passing of iconic country star Dolly Parton. She was remembered for her humble upbringing in eastern Tennessee, charitable deeds that touched tens of millions of lives, and for warming the hearts of people around the globe through her music and storytelling. But Miss Parton’s legacy also includes a reminder of our nation’s culture and history of firearms ownership and our natural right to self-defense.
Growing up in eastern rural Tennessee, Miss Parton was very familiar with firearms as both a means of self-defense and part of the family hunting culture.
As an aspiring young musician visiting New York City earlier in her career in her 20s, she recounted having to brandish a pistol in order to protect herself and a friend from an aggressive man.
She told Conan O’Brien during an interview, “I didn’t know how to get him off me so I just pulled my gun out and I said, ‘If you touch me one more time I’m gonna shoot you.’”
After that, apparently she almost never traveled without a firearm. In 1978 she told Playboy, “I always carry a gun. A .38 pistol. I have a permit for it in Nashville…. I just don’t like the idea of knowin’ I’m totally helpless.”
By News2A Team
