A GIRL'S GUIDE TO GUNS

January 1, 2006 -- "WHAT should a woman do when attacked by a criminal? Should she behave passively? Use pepper spray? A gun?
Most people hope they'll get lucky and never be attacked. For those who want to think ahead, there is Paxton Quigley's new book, "Stayin' Alive."
It turns out that pepper spray may not do you a lot of good when it is raining or snowing. A woman is just as likely to disable herself as the attacker when it's windy or when using the spray indoors."

Read the entire article, as it debunks some bad advice long held to be gospel, and points the way towards a very good book by Paxton Quigley titled "Stayin' Alive."

Pepper sprays simply do not work on certain people, and even the taser-like devices can be useless against an aggressor high on drugs. My choice for the diminutive individual has always been a small, hammerless if possible, revolver, and for so very many reasons I could write my own book on the subject. Most women are not gunsters and keeping it simple means keeping it far more user friendly. Purchase a firearm you can become proficient with (too much gun is worse than not enough gun), use modern ammunitions, live-fire at least once a month and dry-fire every day. The world is a better place with you in it and the bad guy out of it.