Women in Detroit Continue to Arm Themselves With Training

By Jenn Jacques

In Detroit, MI, women of all ages are taking firearms training classes to ensure they’ll be able to defend themselves in a number of real-world scenarios.

“Our gun classes are like therapy session for these women. Some of them come in crying because they have been attacked before, raped or robbed,” said Nneka Lawrence, a firearms instructor at Action Impact Firearms and Training Center. “Others want to simply protect themselves. The two things that come up in our classes is home invasion or being carjacked.”

Lawrence, who has been a certified instructor for over a decade, is one of a handful of black female firearms instructors in America and said women who sign up for her eight-hour class are looking to arm themselves with the power to defend themselves.

“A lot of time when some of these women are attacked they think it’s a random act. I tell them if you go to the Meijer store for no reason, just to be there, maybe you could have avoided an incident where you got attacked. So you have to be conscious of your surrounding,” Lawrence said. “I hear a lot of stories from the women in my class. But I feed off …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms