This article by the Independent Women's Forum should be required reading for all women. It makes several interesting points about women and firearms.

- Less than 5% of 911 calls dispatched to police are early enough to actually prevent a crime.
- Police and government organizations have no legal obligation to protect you as an individual.
- Firearms proficiency can take only a few hours of practice.
- While martial arts training may "equalize" the disparity between a woman and an attacker, multiple attackers have an advantage.
- Firearms proficiency can make ANY woman strong enough to fend off attackers, regardless of their size or strength.
- In more than 92% of "defensive gun uses" simply brandishing a firearm, or firing a warning shot is enough.