{"id":80303,"date":"2022-04-22T10:53:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80303"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:53:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T15:53:39","slug":"80303","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=80303","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/04\/19\/these-10-incidents-highlight-importance-of-second-amendment-for-women\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These 10 Incidents Highlight Importance of Second Amendment for Women<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since 1987, the United States has recognized March as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2021\/03\/05\/why-arent-conservative-women-recognized-during-womens-history-month\/\">Women\u2019s History Month<\/a>\u00a0to celebrate the vital role of women in American history. Unfortunately, far too often we find that the armed women of history are overlooked or completely forgotten, and the vital role of the Second Amendment in the lives of American women is ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Women long have availed themselves of the right to keep and bear arms in defense of life, liberty, and property\u2014from Harriet Tubman, the famed \u201cconductor\u201d of the underground railroad who was known to carry loaded pistols, to Mary \u201cStagecoach Mary\u201d Fields, the first black woman to be a mail carrier, who notoriously kept a .38 revolver in her apron to fend off bandits and wild animals alike.<\/p>\n<p>Tubman and Fields haven\u2019t been alone.<\/p>\n<p>Almost every major study on the issue has found that Americans use their firearms in self-defense between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/cdc-study-use-firearms-self-defense-important-crime-deterrent\">500,000 and 3 million<\/a>\u00a0times annually, according to the most recent report on the subject by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, The Daily Signal each month publishes an article highlighting some of the previous month\u2019s many news stories on defensive gun use that you may have missed\u2014or that might not have made it to the national spotlight in the first place. (Read other accounts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/author\/amy-swearer\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0from 2019, 2020, 2021, and so far in 2022.)<\/p>\n<p>To honor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/03\/24\/men-now-dominate-womens-sports\/\">Women\u2019s History Month<\/a>, we decided to highlight 10 incidents from last month in which the Second Amendment made all the difference for women, either because they were armed or because another armed person came to their defense.<\/p>\n<p>The examples below represent only a small portion of the news stories on defensive gun use that we found in March. You may explore more by using The Heritage Foundation\u2019s interactive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/data-visualizations\/firearms\/defensive-gun-uses-in-the-us\/?_gl=1*1x1hdmc*_ga*MTA4NzM2Njc1OC4xNjMxNzEyODk1*_ga_W14BT6YQ87*MTYzNjQ3MjI4NC4yOS4xLjE2MzY0NzMwNDguNjA.&amp;_ga=2.110181062.255112843.1636408225-1087366758.1631712895\">Defensive Gun Use Database<\/a>. (The Daily Signal is the multimedia news organization of The Heritage Foundation.)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>March 1, Atlanta:<\/strong>\u00a0Five teens\u2014at least two armed\u2014tried to carjack a woman as she sat in her vehicle, police said. The woman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/crime\/5-teens-arrested-shooting-armed-carjacking-police-chase-metro-atlanta\/85-2cb3f52c-a01e-46b6-9f95-ede6ae153e09\">drew her own gun<\/a>\u00a0and exchanged fire with the would-be carjackers, who fled. Although she was injured, her car was not stolen. Police said they arrested the teens just hours later, after a police chase in which they crashed a car stolen during a second carjacking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 4, Longview, Texas:<\/strong>\u00a0A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kltv.com\/2022\/03\/07\/matthew-dillon-george\/\">woman armed with a rifle<\/a>\u00a0shot and wounded a man who forced his way inside her home, police said. The woman had told the man\u2014who neighbors say had a history of criminally trespassing in area homes\u2014to get off her porch. But he refused and tried to smash in her sliding glass door with his fist, according to police, who arrested the wounded man. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxxv.com\/hometown\/texas\/texas-man-shot-by-woman-after-failed-burglary-attempt\">county sheriff praised<\/a>\u00a0the woman\u2019s actions as \u201can excellent example of the importance of our Second Amendment.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 5, Lincolnton, North Carolina:<\/strong>\u00a0Police said a woman\u2019s estranged husband showed up at the residence where she was staying, forced his way inside, and threatened her and the male homeowner. During the altercation, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2022\/03\/09\/man-breaking-into-house-see-wife-shot-by-homeowner-lincolnton\/\">homeowner retrieved a firearm<\/a>\u00a0from a bedroom and shot the intruder in self-defense before running to a neighbor\u2019s home to call 911. Police charged the wounded husband with multiple crimes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 9, Nashville, Tennessee:<\/strong>\u00a0After her boyfriend physically assaulted her earlier in the day, a woman returned to their shared home to gather her belongings and retrieve her three young children, police said. A female friend accompanied her for support. When they arrived, the boyfriend argued with the woman, then assaulted her again. She saw that he was armed,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fox17.com\/news\/local\/three-people-shot-on-zermatt-ave\">so she drew her own gun<\/a>\u00a0and exchanged fire with him in self-defense. The woman, her friend, and the boyfriend were all injured, but the three children weren\u2019t harmed, police said. The boyfriend faces several felony charges, including being a felon in unlawful possession of a firearm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 10, Dayton, Ohio:<\/strong>\u00a0A woman\u2019s ex-boyfriend\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/crime\/police-investigating-after-man-shot-in-the-arm-in-dayton\/34O73HOYWJFVTIXCVXNX4PEN5U\/\">ignored a protective order<\/a>\u00a0against him, scaled the roof of her home in the middle of the night, and tried to climb through her bedroom window, police said. When the woman heard the intruder, she grabbed a firearm to protect herself and her daughter and shot the man in the arm as he descended into her bedroom. She told police she realized it was her ex-boyfriend as he ran from the house. He was arrested later that day after calling paramedics for his gunshot wound, and faces several criminal charges.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 16, Reading, Pennsylvania:<\/strong>\u00a0A woman and her boyfriend were about to get into their car at a local park when a man approached them and fired two rounds, police said. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2022\/03\/17\/shooting-victims-girlfriend-exchanged-gunfire-on-assailant-in-reading\/\">woman drew her own gun<\/a>\u00a0and shot back, giving her wounded boyfriend time to take cover behind their car. Police later arrested their assailant and charged him with attempted homicide and unlawfully possessing a gun as a felon.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 22, Orlando, Florida:<\/strong>\u00a0A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/news\/local\/2022\/03\/23\/uber-driver-recounts-shooting-man-accused-of-hitting-girlfriend-in-orange-county\/\">female veteran<\/a>\u00a0working as an Uber driver arrived at a customer\u2019s pick-up location and saw him physically assaulting his girlfriend, police said. The driver decided to give them a ride despite the man\u2019s violent actions because she didn\u2019t want to leave the girlfriend alone with her assailant. When the couple got into the car, the man passed out drunk in the back seat while the Uber driver spoke with the girlfriend. When the man woke up and assaulted both his girlfriend and the driver, police said, the driver stopped the car and demanded that he get out. The driver shot and wounded the man after he shoved his girlfriend to the ground and advanced on the driver in a threatening manner.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 23, Paradise, Nevada:<\/strong>\u00a0A woman was with her boyfriend and three children when an ex-boyfriend broke into their home, police said.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/crime\/homicides\/woman-shoots-kills-ex-boyfriend-after-reporting-break-in-2549865\/\">The woman armed herself<\/a>\u00a0and called 911, and the ex-boyfriend left. However, he returned a short time later armed with his own gun, which he pointed at the current boyfriend\u2019s head. The woman fired one shot, striking him in the head and killing him, police said. No one else was harmed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 24, Lansing, Michigan:<\/strong>\u00a0When a man with two prior convictions for domestic violence began assaulting a woman inside her \u00a0home, police said,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/man-faces-felony-charges-following-211636333.html\">\u00a0her son came to her defense<\/a>, shooting and wounding her attacker. Police arrested him at a nearby hospital. The woman was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>March 25, Montgomery, Alabama:<\/strong>\u00a0When a woman called police after being assaulted by her husband, officers advised her to pursue a protective order against him. The woman was on her way to the police station with her two adult sons when the husband rammed his car into hers, drove them off the road, and approached them while brandishing a handgun. One son, an off-duty sheriff\u2019s deputy, told his brother and mother to run when his father opened fire. Despite being shot five times,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/montgomery\/2022\/03\/montgomery-deputy-shot-5-times-by-his-father-in-domestic-dispute-father-killed.html\">the son was able to draw his own gun<\/a>\u00a0and fatally shoot his father before anyone else was harmed. He was hospitalized in critical condition, but expected to survive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some gun control advocates like to claim that the Second Amendment was written by and for men, and that it leaves women to suffer as victims of gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>But these claims ignore the countless cases such as the ones above, where the right to keep and bear arms was used by women or for the sake of protecting women\u2014often from male aggressors against whom an unarmed woman would have been effectively helpless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2022\/03\/31\/young-women-are-closing-so-called-gender-pay-gap-heres-what-that-means\/\">Women\u2019s History Month<\/a>\u00a0may be over, but the importance of the Second Amendment in the lives of American women continues every day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>No matter the month, the constitutional right to keep and bear arms remains in force, with no asterisk or small print excluding women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These 10 Incidents Highlight Importance of Second Amendment for Women Since 1987, the United States has recognized March as\u00a0Women\u2019s History Month\u00a0to celebrate the vital role of women in American history. 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