A WOMAN’S OPINION

Top 8 Reasons More Women Should Have Gun Ownership

More women are becoming gun owners, and this is an exciting turn of events to see in this world. Over half of gun purchases came from women in the past couple of years, and we don’t expect this number to slow down any time soon. Not only are women buying guns, but they’re learning more about them, from their parts to how to clean them

Why is this happening? Well, the past year has certainly made people want to order more guns. We can’t argue with that. In addition, women are learning to fight back against men who may have bad intentions with them. There are a lot of reasons. As a gun owner myself, I have my list of why each woman in America should own a gun. Here’s why.

For Their Safety

The most obvious reason why women should own guns is their safety. As women, most of us tend to be physically smaller than our male counterparts. However, we can even the odds with a bullet or two.

Let’s illustrate this point further. One-third of women will be a victim of violence in some way. So even if you haven’t been the victim yet, there’s a good chance that it may happen to you or someone close to you.
As someone who is only 5 feet, 3 inches, and living in one of the most dangerous places in Arizona, a gun helps protect my safety. I cannot fight back physically against a person who towers over me.

When armed, you can fight back. At home. While in an alley at night. Or, in any other situation, all it takes is one gun for you to go from a victim to empowered.

Because We’re Better Shooters

So, what happens if a man has a gun? Don’t you worry. Us women are better shooters.

Women tend to be better shooters due to their ability to listen to instructions better. News flash: shooting is more complex than you think. There are many factors, including the type of gun, the target’s height, the list goes on. Some men tend to nod their heads when instructed by a professional, while women listen more. So, if there’s a situation where there’s a gunfight, the man better beware of us.

The Crime Rate is High

If you reside in a city with a low crime rate, maybe I can understand why you would be pushing gun control. Listen, I’m a person who was the victim of a horrible crime.  Owning a gun has allowed me to live a normal life in an area that’s anything but.

A crime-ridden area tends to be poverty-ridden, and many people who live in these areas can’t afford to be the victim of a robbery. In many cases, the robber may take your life as well. However, with a gun, which can be inexpensive to own, you can even the odds.

Plus, the crime rate is not going down by gun violence, as shown by this graph. By owning a gun, I may stand a chance against an assailant.

Source: • Homicides by firearm in the U.S. 2020 | Statista

Because The Courts Sometimes Won’t Give You Justice

Look, I love our justice system, but there are times when the bad guys slip through the cracks. A woman has a one in six chance of being a victim of sexual assault.

Once again, think about that. You probably know someone who was the victim of a sexual assault. Unfortunately, two-thirds of rapists get away with their crimes. While I understand it’s hard to prove, many women don’t get the justice they deserve.

Which is why more of us are arming ourselves. If a man tries to assault us sexually, we don’t dial 911. Instead, we defend ourselves. No exceptions.

You Never Know When A Loved One Won’t Be There for You

The following reason piggybacks a bit on the last paragraph but instead focuses on our partners. Look, you may have a loving, strong man protecting you. But he may not be there all the time. Sometimes, it may be because you’re left alone. Other times, it may be because you ended the relationship.

When this happens, you may feel vulnerable. However, a gun can distinguish between feeling like you don’t have protection and feeling like you do.

With a gun, you may realize you don’t need protection from anyone else and can do it alone. This feeling is quite liberating. Trust me on that.

It’s a Stress Reliever

As women, we are 50% more stressed than men. While stress is a part of life, being too stressed can lead to many health problems. You can’t sleep, you can’t get stuff done, you feel weak.

Luckily, guns are a good stress reliever. Particularly in regards to a gun range. Think about it. You go to a range, shoot some targets, and you feel that adrenaline. Think of that target as all your frustrations. Then picture you taking out your frustrations, literally.

Not only is a shooting range a good stress reliever, but it can be a fun hobby and an excellent way to practice your aim.

It Can Be a Bonding Activity

Besides helping you relieve stress, shooting guns can be a fun way to bond with your spouse, your children, or just with your friends. You can teach each other tips on shooting guns, and it just feels fantastic to shoot them with someone you love.

Have no friends? The community around guns is amazing. You can make many different friends if you stick around. Trust me on that one. After advocating for firearms, I’ve made many friends and connections that I would have never made otherwise.

Because We Can

Finally, the reason more women should own guns is that they can. Our second amendment rights grant us the right to bear arms. Think of our rights as muscles. If you exercise them, they stay firm. Meanwhile, if you ignore them, they can fade.

As a woman, you have a right to own a firearm to help you take control of your life. When I first had my gun, I felt intense pride being an American and being in a place where I can own a gun.

And those are my top 8 reasons. What are your reasons? How did owning a gun change your life? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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Authored by Marice Young

Author Bio

Mom, wife, and pro-guns writer. I live in Tolleson, AZ where the crime rate has been higher than almost 99% of American cities. A horrible personal experience made me realize the importance of gun ownership and self-defense.

 

Memorandum

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943 (aged 86) … interesting guy – no wife or kids

Lenny Bruce (1925-1966 age 40) 1 kid Spouse  Honey Bruce  (m. 1951; div. 1957) Stand-up comic

Alberto Rangel  51, was fatally stabbed on Dec. 4 2025 by a patient at Ward 86, where Rangel had worked since 2021. He died two days later. He was slain while working as a behavioral health clinician at SF General Hospital.

Agatha Christie (1890-1941 age 85) Novelist with 66 books.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941 age 59) wrote A Room of One’s Own (1929)

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959 age 91 – 7 kids 1 wife) and Frank Gehry (1929-2025 age 96 – 4 kids 2 wives)  Architects of their times.

Andy Warhol  (1928 – 1987 age 58 years) “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art”. He also stated that “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art”.

Kate Steinle – July 1, 2015, 32-year-old Kathryn “Kate” Steinle was shot and killed while walking with her father and a friend along Pier 14 in the Embarcadero district of San Francisco. The guy that fired the shot that killed her (José Inez García Zárate of Guanajuato, Mexico, was an illegal immigrant who was deported from the U.S. a total of five times, most recently in 2009).  And he got off scott free thanks to a George Soros (1930 – ) 3 wives, 5 kids with a net worth of over 7billion US$) district atterney – Memo to Soros:  … what are you thinking/doing about the war crimes going on in Gaza right now?.  Last words from Kate to her father, “I am dying” … so sad for what happened to a human being killed by an “illegal” in the USA all with an unsecured US gov issued firearm.

Ansel Adams  (1902- 1984 age 82) Photographer and on the board of the Seirra Club.

Eugene E. Petersen – (1924 – 2005 age 81) UC Berkeley professor of Chemical Engineering and  Kathryn Petersen  (b.1919)

Clarance Towers.  (1943 – 2021 age 78)  Photographer – His Rodeo images are on the wall in the Jazz room on 3rd St in the Bayview.  A Wonderful human being and miss him.

Halyna Hutchins (1979 – 2021) age 42 … shot and killed by Alex Baldwin on the set of his movie “Rust.” so Sad.  Alex (b. 1958 age 67) … you are a great actor – but think you should be more careful when you aim a gun at a filmaker on your set.

Kevin Moran – killed by the National Guard in Isla Vista in Santa Babarba in the 1970s.   article about

Richard Johnson (1928 – 2009)  age 81 … math teacher at Miramonte High School in Orinda CA. Great guy … Still miss him – part of the old school that still believed in teaching and mentering to students.

Emperor Norton  (1918 -1880) age 61.   … had a currency created for him by local printers … and if he did not lose it all trying to corner the rice market and lose it all no one would remember him. 

Charlie Kirk  while not a supporter of his views – do not think he should have been Killed for voicing them.

What is it with people dying at 66?

Netanyahu and Zionism need to die

Netanyahu … an obvious War criminal.   Ordering the Killing over 70,000 humans in gaza (using US taxpayer dollars).

Netanyahu needs to go and be 6 feet under … or should be assonated or urged to commit suicide.

He has cemented anti-Semitism (really anti Zionism) in people’s minds for 100 years.    Sad for Jewish folks who are mostly nice and care about others.  But ordering the killing 70,000+ people in Gaza and wanting to starve to death the rest is a war crime in my Book.

Spouses Miriam Weizmann  (m. 1972; div. 1978)​  Fleur Cates  (m. 1981; div. 1988) Sara Ben-Artzi ​(m. 1991)​ Children 3 (including Yair)  Sorurce: Wikipedia

The folks at the ADL (Anti Defalmation League) think this might be be considered “anti-semitic” to say this – but anti zionism is not the same as being anti-semitic.

The folks at J&R Electronics in New York were one of the most ethical businesses I have dealt with and have know many folks of the Jewish tradition that have been nice and ethical.   But Netanyahu does not represent the best of Jewish tradition and only reinforces the idea that Jews control the US congress.  Looking forward to your demise or banishmen Mr. Netanyahu.  Perhaps donations to jstreetmight be helpful.

Is it True?

Is Zionism really Jewish?

Netanyahu – you seem to have blood on your hands for ordering the killing of more that 50,000 humans in Gaza and starving the rest to death …  all with US taxpayer dollars. Is it just a land grab to build hotels?

I have known many Jews (J&R electronics in New York was one of the most ethical business I have ever dealt with) – but killing and putting people of Islamic faith in apartheid style prison camps in Gaza and the West bank is disgusing and has the echoes of Hitler.   

You, Mr. Netanyahu (b. 21 October 1949 (age 75))  Hope you take the honerable way out and end your life on this planet before you kill more people – you are not at the Hitler level yet but you seem to be trying.  You are way past your sell by date.

 

 

Media

To the New York Times: Deliver your paper on time to your paying subscribers and do not make them wait on hold for 2 hours to report a missing paper. By the way, your writer, Jessica Grose is amazing.

To the New Yorker:  Your New York arrogance is astound even though you have class and good cartoons.  Happy B-Day 100.

To: Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post: About time you stop endorsing candidates for public office. Not sure what Life is like in your World, Jeff … but amazon sure delivers.  Best of luck to amazon.com and the Washington Post.

As for the rest of those in the media world … times are a changing so time to adapt.

Government

 

Local:  Lure is the new mayor of San Francisco  and has his hands full with downtown SF … but hope he does not forget the Bayview (The T Line/3rd Street 2 year closure comes to mind) … but al least in the Bayview we have Supervisor in Shamonn Walton who seems to care about the young people of the Bayview.  Has a great staff which is the sign of a good manager.  Not a fan of the political class but apreciate clean and maintained streets, street cleaning crew and a MUNI system that works (mostly) … as well as the staff at SF 311.  At least Breed is gone. Toast to SF city emplyees that are doing thier best.

State:  Governor Newsom?  A want a be President?  b. 1967, in San Francisco, California, to Tessa Thomas and William Alfred Newsom III, a state appeals court judge and attorney for Getty Oil.  Source: Wikipedia  … Will he destroy California on his way to running for President in 2028? We shall see … Will he destroy California?

National: Trump is a wild card. Will see what he does.  Wish him well.  The federal gov is due for a shakeup  Is he up to the job?  At least Nancy Pelosi was forced to be polite and sit in her seat trough Trump’s State of the Union address to congress.

Biden is out to pasture and Harris is a footnote in history.   What was she doing sending me 2-3 mailings a week asking for money when her only slogan was “Send me money to Defend democracy”?  And with 1.5 billion$ from coastal elites – is that is the best she could come up with?

The Demo party will certainly need to recalibrate their message and vision.  Remember the Democrats were the party of the KKK in the South and machine politics in the North. Roosevelt (P33   b. 1882 d. 1945 age 63) was the President who ordered over 100,000 Japanese citizens of the United States into concentration camps during World War II – perhaps for his suporters to get land on the cheap.

Democracy Won

Election season finally over,  I was kind of rooting for Kamala Harris but getting 2-3 mailings a week from the Harris campain asking for money to “Defend Democracy” was not much of a platform/vision for the country …  and with over 1 billion$ in campaign contributions think she could have done better.

Election season over thank God –  Wish the Trump guy and Mr. Dan Lurie  luck in the New Year.  Breed and Harris lost the election fair and square.  Got 2-3 mailings a week from the Harris campain asking for money to “Defend Democracy” (and with with over 1 billion dollars in campain contribution could not even articulate a vision for for the country – pathetic).  Democracy did Win.  Former mayor Breed did not even respond to emails or USPS mail sent to her office.  Now we will see what Team Lurie can do …  Still wonder why he wanted the Job.

Former mayor Breed is out … she could not even be bothered to reply to email/USPS mail sent to her office.  

Biden promised not to pardon his son and did it anyway.  The Demo party (the party of the KKK in the South and machine politics in the North) will have some reflecting to do as they lost the support of the struggling/working class in the country … guess the coastal elites may have to reflect on why they cannot buy elections with thier $$$.

Trump played the Trump card and won.  We will have to wait another day for the First Women President in the White House and for a “First Man” in the White house.  . And to think Dr. Jill did not even like Ms. Harris.

At least Breed and Biden are out to pasture.  Breed was a complete looser in my book – could not even be bothered to respond to email or USPS mail sent to her office …  She will probably get appointed (by Newsom) to a state commission where she will collect $200,000 per year to attend 4 board meetings per year.  Certainly not a Willie Brown style of politition who actually responed to USPS mail sent to his office. 

History: … The “Democrats” were the party of the KKK in the south and Roosevelt  (b.1882 – d. 1945) issued order 9066 to put US Japanese citizens of the United States into concentration camps. And Kamala Harris sent 2-3 letters a week asking for money to “Defend Democracy”.  Could have done better with the over 1bill$ she got in campaign contributions from the coastal elites. Even Jill Biden did not like her.  As the coastal media … The NYTimes still repeats the mantra that Epstein (b. 1953 d. 1919 age 66) actually committed suicide while in jail.  Building 7 … lets pull it?  Get real … and you wonder why there is no trust in the national media … all they are is an advertising venue for overpriced watches and fancy houses.  Present: Trump played the Trump card and won fair and square playing to income insecurity.  The Future:  We shall see … The future will be what the future will be. My sense is that None of us will get out of this life alive.

Some reflections from Bob in the Bayview.  

The Political Class

President Biden Pardons Hunter Biden’s Gun Crimes

You mzy be one of the worst presidents of the United States.  You are obviously past your sell by date … could not even do live press confrences and could barely read a teleprompter . And to pardon your son for IRS tax evasion and gun violations after you promised not to … give me a break … no wonder your team lost in the election.  You are the epitome of couruption.  Son getting $50K/month from a UKration oil company while you were VP … all legal coruption.

Joe Biden commutes 37 out of 40 federal death sentences

Joe Biden issuing a pre-emptive pardon of his son Hunter Biden for any crimes committed during an 11-year period shamed the Presidency and is a permanent stain of scandal on Biden’s legacy.

Thought that Kamala had it in the bag with over 1 billion$ in her warchest.  But getting 2-3 mailings a week asking for money to “Defend Demorcacy” seemed a littile lame. And Oprha shakering her down for $1 mil for a single night … tacky.  Kind of wanted her to win and have a First Man in the Whitehouse but democracy did finally win out in the end with the Trump guy finally getting back in.  Dont have a clue why he wants the day job of President of the USA but hope he gets rid of the 20,000 government employees around Washington DC plannning for a war with China.

The Year of the Tiger is amost here.

 

Netanyahu: Resign or kill yourself.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) chairs a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

You are an insult to Jews Worldwide.  Your Nazi/Zionist style tactics to the residents of Gaza are not part of the Jewish tradition and will only perpetuate anti-semsitism for decades to come. 

Get out of the way or kill yourself as Hitler did years ago.

Netanyahu: (b. 1949 d. ___ )  You are obviously a war criminal – with the blood of over 40,000  Gaza residents on your hands … all paid for with US taxpayer dollars.  Hitler wantabe?  Is it just the beach front     land you want for a greater Isreal?  Not sure what goes on your  mind but think you are a dispicable human being that does not represent the best of the Jewish tradition.  My adviice, end your esistance on this earth.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/11/israel-opt-netanyahu-gallant-and-al-masri-must-face-justice-at-the-icc-for-charges-of-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/war-crimes-court-issues-warrants-for-netanyahu-and-former-israeli-defense-minister