Thanks for the encouragement. I'll keep at it, but I'm trying to take a subtle tack so I sent her a link to CorneredCat's page about pepper spray (she's carried it in the past and I'm going to buy her some to carry again), hopefully she'll read that page with interest and then click around to other areas on her own without me prodding her. She definitely needs to come to this realization on her own terms without me telling her she needs to come to this realization. Hopefully having me carry around her & the boys (whenever I get my plastic!!!) will get her more and more comfortable as she becomes more and more confident that the Glock won't just jump out and go off all by itself!locknload wrote:JT, PLEASE, please, send her the link and make certain that she reads the whole thing! PLEASE!!
Just ask yourself this: How will I feel, if something happens to her, when I could have forewarned her?
Now, if she continues not to see the need to arm herself, you have at least done all you could to increase her awareness, thus, her safety.
You may feel free to tell her of my two escapes from attempted rape from my lawn man and the creep hiding in the stall in the Ladies' Room of the Dollar Cinema. BG's are not going to ask permission to harm you. If/when they come, it will be in your most innocent, unsuspecting moments.
Have your wife do this exercise:
Sit in church or any crowded, mixed, audience. Have her look for every fourth woman. Then, tell her the statistic that rocked my world, after my last "encounter:" One in every 4 females in the US is raped before she graduates from High School. By the time she reaches 50, 40% of the women in this country are raped, and as many as 80% have survived an attempted rape. Also, the highest growing demographic for rape is elderly women, who are often robbed and killed by their rapist. This came from some website that a friend was quoting, so I cannot give you a citation. I'm sorry. Even so, the scenario is eye-opening. Just the exercise, alone, woke me up and made me realize that I have many sisters, who have been in my shoes ... and we are all traumatized by it. For me, the cure was to get my CHL and do something pro-active to regain my equilibrium and sense of OK-ness, if that's a word.
Now, I'm a crusader for women's self-defense and awareness of this increasing problem.
JT she might get upset with you. If she does, and this info. saves her, it will be worth it!
Blessings!!
JT