Do you support a woman's right to defend herself against an abuser?

I'm confronting someone who demands that women who are being violently abused continue to suffer serious violent harm.

"In 2014, there were 1,613 females murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents that were
submitted to the FBI...For homicides in which the weapon could be identified, 54 percent of female victims (783 out of 1,458)
were killed with a gun...., 69 percent of female firearm homicide victims (541 out of 783) were killed with handguns. "

"From 1996 to 2014, the rate of women murdered by men in single victim/single offender incidents dropped from 1.57 per 100,000 women in 1996 to 1.08 per 100,000 women in 2014, a decrease of 31 percent...The data presented over the years in When Men Murder Women coincides with the passage and implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which will be 22 years old this year, as well as the passage of restrictions on firearms possession by persons with misdemeanor convictions for domestic violence or those who are subject to certain protective orders for domestic violence."

Why More Urban Women Own Guns: Self-Defense — and the Second Amendment

The image of the U.S. firearm owner is shifting, a definitive survey shows. Urban American women explain the change: "Women are the prey."

·September 21, 2016

MIDDLE RIVER, MARYLAND — She only owns a handgun. She’s more likely than male gun owners to live in an urban area, and less likely to have grown up in a gun-friendly household.

And regardless of how many and what types of guns she owns, she’s more likely to report owning firearms for protection than men.

This is the portrait of the American female gun owner, as depicted by the most definitive survey of U.S. gun ownership in two decades. While gun ownership has long been dominated by men in the U.S., the survey finds that the percentage of women who choose to pack heat is increasing.

Of those who own handguns only, 43 percent are women, and nearly a quarter of those women live in urban areas, according to new research from Northeastern University and the Harvard School of Public Health.
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“I really think women are driving the growth [in gun ownership] because it’s now accessible to them in ways it has never been before,” Lightfoot said.