"Women, Handguns and Civilization"

Erin Solaro, of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Blog The Woman Citizen, has a most excellent piece up by the above title.

Women, Handguns and Civilization

For a law-abiding citizen to bear personal arms is an act of civilization.

Not just an act of self-defense or an act in defense of civilization, but an act of civilization.

This is true for men and it is even more true for women. For a woman to bear personal arms means that she will not be deprived of her legal rights: to go any lawful place she pleases at any time; to be free in her body, meaning that she need not be defenseless against assailants; to live. And it means that the uncivilized, those who would deprive her of life and the liberties of a free citizen, including freedom from unwanted sexual contact, do so at absolute risk to their lives.

That is the fundamental moral principle. These are the facts.

Go RTWT.

H/t to Turk.