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Posts Tagged women’s rights
Mom Who Defended Herself With A Gun Faces Eviction
From Bearing Arms:
According to FOX 4 in Dallas/Fort Worth, Wallace was told by management at the federally subsidized housing where she lives with her four children that she was being ousted because she had a gun on the property in violation of management’s ban on firearms. State Rep. Carrie Isaac has taken an interest in Wallace’s plight, asking Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office to weigh in along with the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs.
Man Wants To Change No Gun Policy For Ride Share Apps After Child’s Murder
From Bearing Arms:
His daughter, 31-year-old Lauren Allen, was driving for Lyft when she was shot and killed in November. Dekalb County Police said Allen was dropping off a passenger on Cedar Croft Court when the passenger got into an argument with her boyfriend, and he fired his gun and hit Allen.
“They’re out there driving. They don’t have no protection at all, so we need to do something,” said Sawyer.
That’s why he wants to draft a proposal that allows rideshare drivers to carry a weapon.
Women Removed From Draft
From The Federalist:
Congressional leaders on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees left a measure out of the National Defense Authorization Act on Monday that would force women to be drafted into the military alongside men after facing pressure from multiple Republican legislators who opposed the provision.
Celebrating Famous Women And Their Guns
From America’s First Freedom:
In the twilight of the nineteenth century, the U.S. frontier was a tenuous place to be; especially for women, as they were often left alone for long stretches of time to fend for the family. The nearest help for them might be miles away down dark and dusty roads.
But with all the struggles and insecurity for many of the women who came before me, it was also a time of tremendous social rebellion, autonomy, and discovery. It was a time when many women not only picked up firearms as a means of self-protection, but also when they laid the foundation for the rights we have today.
Mom Defends Self And Children During Car-jacking
From NBC Philly:
Michelle says she tried to push the gear into park as the car rolled down the parking lot. When he refused to stop, Michelle pulled a gun from the glove box and shot the man, who then drove the SUV into a utility pole, according to police.
Abuse Not Good Enough Reason For Canadian Woman To Carry Gun
From The Chronicle Herald:
A judge told a woman who was brutally beaten by her former boyfriend that carrying a gun in public was not an acceptable form of protection.
Orr sentenced Gaudet on Friday to 30 days in jail for possession of a weapon for purposes dangerous to the public. She also handed the woman a second 30-day sentence, to be served concurrently, for breaching probation by failing to keep the peace.
Gun Rights, Women’s Rights
From The Federalist:
On September 3, Lachelle Hudgins wounded a robber who had attempted to steal her purse. While the mainstream media pan the attack as an overreaction to an attempted purse-snatching, Hudgins, who was there, saw it differently.
According to the video recorded by a local ABC reporter, five attackers approached her car in the wee hours of the morning. How was she to know the attack would end with only a stolen purse? “With so many men surrounding her car and trying to get in the car, she did the only thing she could think to do. She reached in her purse for her gun.†Hudgins said of the incident, “I saved my life.â€
The Well Armed Woman Removed From Instagram
From Bearing Arms:
“There was no warning and there has been no communication from Instagram at all. We don’t post ANYTHING even close to being inappropriate. My focus is totally on empowering and educating our followers. For them to take down a page focused on women taking responsibility for their own self-protection against violence is a new low.â€
Legally Armed In Detroit
From The Truth About Guns:
Rick Ector, through his firearms training operation Legally Armed in Detroit, has been putting on annual one-day training extravaganzas for years, providing free gun safety and shooting classes to hundreds of southeast Michigan women. All at no cost to the students.
Women Who Shot In Self Defense
From The Truth About Guns:
#MeToo: Women Who Shot Men in Self-Defense is a special book, just out in 2018. Special, not just in being another powerful tool against the prejudice against guns and individual self-defense so common in society, but in its development and focus, too.
Woman Protects Children By Shooting Boyfriend
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 20/Jul/2018 12:21
From WSMV:
A north Nashville woman told police she was forced to shoot her boyfriend after he attacked her children on Saturday night.
Daily Beast: Worst Arguments Against Gun Control
From The Daily Beast:
Guns Don’t Kill People, People Kill People
Criminals Don’t Obey Gun Laws, Only Law-Abiding Citizens Do
 Any Gun Control Is a Slippery Slope to Confiscation
Texas Campus Carry Goes Into Effect
From Reason:
A Texas law that affirms the right of students and faculty to carry guns on public university campuses went into effect today. Much has been made of the significance of the date, given that the University of Texas tower shooting—one of the most infamous school massacres in history—occurred exactly 50 years ago.
Gun Saved Woman When Protection Order Didn’t
From WDRB:
Police say one man is dead after forcing his way into the home of his ex-girlfriend on Saturday night.
Police say there was an active domestic violence order against Decker, but that order had recently been amended to allow Decker to stay in his parent’s home, which was next door to his ex-girlfriend, as long as he did not commit any further acts of violence. Decker was asked by family members, his ex-girlfriend and the courts to stay away from her home and not to have any contact or communication with her.