{"id":3104,"date":"2024-04-08T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T19:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2024-04-08T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T19:41:32","slug":"overcoming-the-fear-of-guns-leads-to-empowerment-over-fears-of-sex-offenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3104","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming the Fear of Guns Leads to Empowerment Over Fears of Sex Offenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4.jpg\" data-caption=\"GSL Defense Training image by Boch.\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-4.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"GSLDT Adrienne 4\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">GSL Defense Training image by Boch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Roughly a dozen years ago I met a woman Adrienne. Like many young women, she feared guns because she didn\u2019t understand them and had years of mostly negative \u201ceducation\u201d about them from American media and pop culture. As a stay-at-home housewife, she cared for her three young daughters while her husband worked a half-hour away.<\/p>\n<p>One day in the summer, a creepy man showed up at her rural home riding a bike. Seeing the mom and her three daughters, he rather insistently asked for a glass of water. Adrienne, recalling the incident, said that the guy made her extremely uncomfortable as her intuition screamed danger.<\/p>\n<p>She managed to close and lock the front door and when the guy didn\u2019t leave, she called police. \u00a0In the meantime, as the creep lingered in the area, she saw her opportunity and took her girls and ran from the back door the 100 yards to her elderly neighbor woman\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Eunice the neighbor had a revolver, and the knowledge, skills and attitude to use it against bad people with evil in their hearts. The five of them watched as the bike rider returned to Adrienne\u2019s house and pounded on the door for what seemed like a few minutes before he finally rode off out of sight.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty minutes after the original call, Johnny Law from the Sheriff\u2019s office arrived. A little sleuthing and Adrienne found the guy\u2019s picture on the <a href=\"https:\/\/isp.illinois.gov\/Sor\">State of IL Registered Sex Offender<\/a> database. He had raped little girls in his past, and thanks to the Land of Lincoln\u2019s \u201cdog years in reverse\u201d prison sentences, was prowling the countryside asking for glasses of water instead of serving his entire sentence in prison.<\/p>\n<p>It was at that moment, she told us, that she realized how close she came to becoming a victim of something terrible. At that point, she stopped resisting her husband\u2019s urges to take a class and learn about guns.<\/p>\n<p>She arrived at one of our Guns Save Life Defense Training courses riddled with anxiety but highly motivated thanks to Mr. Registered Sex Offender. Thanks to patient, skilled instructors, Adrienne discovered how she could harness the power of a firearm for self-defense through learning the fundamentals of shooting a handgun.\u00a0 Having a fellow woman coaching her proved an added bonus.\u00a0 We helped desensitize her to those internal fears she had learned.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_545985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545985\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545985\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrienne at her first pistol class about to fire her first shots. GSL Defense Training. John Boch Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She remained on the meek and mild end of the spectrum until one of the instructors told her to imagine those three little girls of hers behind her in one of the barricade drills. He later said he could see the switch in her demeanor.\u00a0 While leaning out from a barricade, she roared \u201cGET OUT!\u201d before shooting the guy coming through the window in the target with two center-mass shots to the chest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_545987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545987\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545987 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-560x373.jpg 560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 770px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 770\/513;\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545987\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-3-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GSL Defense Training. John Boch Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had helped her empower herself.\u00a0 She knew that if Mr. Sex Offender returned, she could say no and back it up with force. And if Mr. Shoulda Been In Prison decided to break in, she would have the knowledge, skills and abilities to help him find Jesus if it came to that.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_545989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545989\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-545989 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-560x373.jpg 560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 770px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 770\/513;\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-545989 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSLDT-Adrienne-5-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GSL Defense Training. John Boch Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fast forward today, Adrienne has become a new woman. She took more training and was elected Vice-President of Guns Save Life. She has also become a support staffer with the GSL Defense Training team. After seeing the transformation of other students from meek and mild to empowered and strong, she became an instructor to share her passion with others, but especially women new to guns.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughters have all grown up, but mom and dad (and the GSL Defense Training family) have inculcated them with an entirely different mindset than Adrienne had as a young woman. One of the girls (and her husband) are support staff with the team and another one is a capable instructor. As they have kids of their own, Adrienne knows they will never have a sense of fear and helplessness if a creep shows up at their door insistently asking for a glass of water.<\/p>\n<p>If you know people in your circle of friends who are agnostic or even fearful about guns and gun ownership, gently nudge them to come to the range with you sometime.\u00a0 Show them a good time and buy them some ice cream afterwards. Make it a day they\u2019ll remember fondly for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>If they find themselves a crime victim (or near victim) and come to you for help, share a great day at the range with them, too. You\u2019ll make a friend for life and help them empower themselves. They might even ask you to accompany them to a gun store.\u00a0 By all means, do so.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_545990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-545990\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545990 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-560x373.jpg 560w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 770px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 770\/513;\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-545990\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GSL-Defense-Training-Peace-on-Earth-or-else-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-545990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GSL Defense Training. John Boch Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alternatively, or additionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/finding-quality-self-defense-firearm-training\/\">help them find a good entry-level defensive pistol course<\/a> from good instructors. Remind them how they don\u2019t have to be a defenseless victim. They can empower themselves by becoming a gun owner. With a little training, they\u2019ll be more than capable of defending their lives, their families and their homes from bad people with evil in their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>As most Americans know, the only thing that stops bad men with evil in their hearts is a good guy or gal with a gun.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/overcoming-the-fear-of-guns-leads-to-empowerment-over-fears-of-sex-offenders\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSL Defense Training image by Boch. Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 Roughly a dozen years ago I met a woman Adrienne. Like many young women, she feared guns because she didn\u2019t understand them and had years of mostly negative \u201ceducation\u201d about them from American media and pop culture. As a stay-at-home housewife, she cared for her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}