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Gun control victims: women receive little encouragement for self-defense from mainstream feminists.
In the middle of a long drive through rural Texas in the early 1960s, Evelyn Logan pulled over at a rest stop at 5:30 a.m. to take a break. As she emerged from the public bathroom, a man ambushed her, grabbed her by the hair, and dragged her toward the nearby woods. All Evelyn could do at first was scream for help--as she had five years earlier when she was raped in an airport parking garage.
But then she reached into her purse for the .22 handgun she kept there. She shot at the ground in front of her. The shock of the explosion allowed her to free herself from her attacker's grasp and take control of the situation. She forced him to lie prostrate on the ground ...
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