Posted May 6, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

I’m an advocate of any woman being armed unless she’s legally prevented from doing so for some reason. I also support lifting most, if not all, potential restrictions on them being armed.

The reason is simple. Women are, by and large, smaller and weaker than the men who are most likely to attack them. Guns equalize the field, allowing them to be more than a sufficient match for the bigger, more aggressive men that might threaten them.

However, it doesn’t mean a woman should be permitted to just shoot a guy for any reason. Obviously.

Yet that’s kind of what it looks like happened in Texas recently.

A woman is accused of shooting her ex-husband in north Houston.

She told authorities that the man was reportedly harassing her in the middle of an argument while he was dropping off their two kids.

She shot him once in his abdomen out of self-defense.

I’m sorry, but based on this admittedly limited information, that’s not self-defense. If he was “harassing her in the middle of an argument,” then it suggests he was going down a road in that argument she didn’t want to go down. That doesn’t meet any legal definition of harassment I can think …Read the Rest

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