So tell me how giving women guns without changing the culture will do any damned good at all. It won’t protect women, and chances are it will enrage the men who laugh at the idea that a woman has a right to enjoy her body while he does not. I have to say, too, a stray thought occurred to me. Guys who think they have such rights to women’s bodies—what do you suppose their attitude is toward other methods of controlling those women’s bodies? Do you really think you have to right to do anything with your body if they don’t get off on it? Do you think they care about your body except if it gets them off? Do you really think they give a shit at all?
Giving women guns is just going to put more women behind bars. The very men who proclaim that this will solve the problem are removing themselves and their buddies from the responsible party list by suggesting it. “Hey,” they whine, “We gave you an option, you chose not to take it. Not our problem any longer.”