Sure....but for the life of me, I can't figure out why. There are predators everywhere.Possibly, more are fed to the pigs than realized and the evidence gone and perps never found out.
There are endless ways to dispose of bodies.....w/o a trace.
Let me help you figure that out. It's really not hard if you get past NRA sloganeering. Here are some consistent propositions, which the evidence demonstrates true:
1. It is true that an individual who is able to detect an intruder, arm themselves, and aim at the intruder successfully might be able to save themselves if they are lucky.
2. It is true that the more guns per capita a developed country has, the more gun violence, gun homicides, and gun murders occur in that country.
3. This is in large part due to the fact that scenario #1
represents a distinct minority of victim-criminal encounters. In fact, gun owners are more likely to be shot themselves when they encounter an intruder as compared to unarmed victims encountering intruders. This is for the simple reason that the vast majority of bullets fired at intruders
miss - even trained police officers miss most of their shots in encounters (unsurprisingly, they find it difficult to keep an absolutely steady hand and perfectly cool head when someone is trying to kill them) - on top of the fact that the intruder typically has the jump on the victim.
4. There are any number of other statistical truths about gun ownership. It creates the risk of accidental death. It increases the ease and therefore rate of suicide.
So yeah, maybe if this "mum" was lucky, she'd be able to have shot her attacker. But the simple factual evidence available demonstrates that on the whole, armed mums are more likely to be killed than the unarmed ones, in such situations.
Now, if more mums were trained Navy Seals, then you would be right. They are exceptional human beings capable of acting with focused precision no matter the circumstances. But since the rest of us are not so exceptional, being armed increases our risk of injury/death rather than decreases it. That's the simple truth.
Gun lovers will never admit it.