Chicago Woman Faces Fear of Guns, Trains Other Women
By Beth Baumann
Chicago resident Javondlynn M. Dunagan, a retired federal probation officer of 25 years, is now teaching firearms and self-defense classes to South Side residents. What makes Dunagan so unique though? She’s an African American woman who was afraid of guns. In fact, she spent her 25 years as a probation officer unarmed.
“I used to look at a gun and think it was just going to jump off the table,” Dunagan told DNA Info.
Things changed for Dunagan when her and her husband, a police officer, divorced. In 2013, she decided to take classes so she could learn how to safely and accurately carry a firearm.
“I said, ‘I’m going to tackle this fear and start carrying a gun, and I’m going to get over this,’ and it turned out I fell in love with firearms,” she said.
As she went to the gun range to practice, she noticed something significant: there weren’t very many women, especially African-American women. When Dunagan’s daughter went off
When her daughter was about to go off to college, Dunagan wanted to enroll her in self-defense classes but realized there were no opportunities on Chicago’s South Side. That’s when Dunagan decided to open …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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