They matter, argues Megan Fox.
Not all victims of violent crimes are so lucky, and business owner Tieesha Essex took the opportunity to make a viral video out of the incident, encouraging women to carry firearms to protect themselves. Essex, a military veteran and police officer, owns Tiemonex.com, a company that sells firearms accessories like holsters. Posing as the victim, Norma Nimox, Essex took the story in a whole new direction. (This is a parody video, not a news report.)We know it's not a news report, because people defending themselves with guns happens every day but rarely makes the news. In general only negative uses of firearms are considered newsworthy.
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I thought we'd be talking about something like this:
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(Pink "woodland" camouflage...)
A year or so back there was a whole community organization effort around "Pink Pistols". Not sure what happened to them.
The sorts of activists and organizers who wear clerical stoles in GaySexAffirming RainbowDiversity color/patterns ought to see about getting a wrap for their own weapons.
I learned recently that, in addition to the gay pride flag / rainbow flag, there are 'pride flags' for many other variant sexualities (e.g. bisexuality, pansexuality). Maybe you could do gun wraps for all of them.
I recommend Nicholas Johnson's book Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms. There are a number of examples that non-violent Civil Rights activists in the '50s and '60s did not extend non-violence to the protection of their homes.
Consider Fannie Lou Hamer of Mississippi.
In some ways, Hamer epitomized the nonviolent theme of the movement. After discrimination, abuse, and beatings, she still urged a scriptural response, “Baby you gotta love ’em. Hating just makes you sick and weak.” But Fannie Lou Hamer also exhibited an earnest practicality that epitomizes the black tradition of arms.58 Asked how she survived so many years of racist aggression, Hamer responded, “I’ll tell you why. I keep a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom and the first cracker even look like he wants to throw some dynamite on my porch won’t write his mama again.” In this approach, Hamer followed the example of her mother, Lou Ella Townsend, who as a fieldworker at the turn of the century had been threatened, assaulted, and raped. Unbowed, Townsend soldiered on, comforted by a pistol concealed in a bucket.59 There is some chance that this is the same pistol that Fannie Lou handed to her overnight guest, Stokely Carmichael, when he stayed at her home during a SNCC voter-registration campaign.
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