I found this post in the Firing Line thread interesting;
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…. Besides the ready availability of amazingly large numbers of whorehouses in Western towns, I'd guess that the major reason for the low incidence of rape was that respectable women did not go out unaccompanied very often, where they might have been vulnerable to rape. This is very different today…..
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It used to be fashionable for ladies to have those fuzzy hand warmers, the round sleeve that they put both hands into. Often there was a pistol in hand inside that thing as well.
Normally the only safe prey to target for a mugging was someone too drunk to defend themselves.
It’s been said that “An armed society is a polite society.” A little time spent at a gun range reminds one just how nice folks are when everyone has a gun in hand.
