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100% Pro-Choice... on
the Basic Human Right of Self-Defense!
The
issue of self-defense cuts across racial, ethnic, religious, and
political lines. We believe that all people have the right to protect
themselves and their families as they see fit.
At least 17 million women own firearms in the United States.
And, approximately 44 percent of adult women either own or have access to
firearms, according to the National Research Opinion Center,
About 2.5 million people defend themselves against violent crime
every year - with firearms. On average, that’s 6,850 times per day -
most times without a shot ever being fired! Firearms are used more than 60
times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives.
Owning a firearm is not for every woman. But as many as
200,000 women use a gun every year to defend themselves against sexual
assault. That's 547 times per day!
A man can kill a woman with whatever he has at hand, but usually, she
can only resist him successfully with a gun. Don Kates, a civil rights
attorney who specializes in firearms issues, cites a Detroit study that
shows that three-quarters of wives who killed their spouses were not
even charged - prosecutors found their acts necessary to protect their
lives or their children's lives.
Yet there are those who desire to either take away or
severely infringe upon your basic human right to self-defense under the banner
of "common sense". Leaving honest, hard-working citizens at the mercy of violent
criminals is sensible?
It’s time for ALL WOMEN to be heard on this issue.
Join
SAS Today!
"They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical
Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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