1 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:05,080 Do you want equality between men and women? 2 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:06,160 I do. 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,600 Which is why I own a gun. 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,260 My Glock 43 is my equalizer. 5 00:00:11,260 --> 00:00:13,020 Too NRA for you? 6 00:00:13,020 --> 00:00:16,340 Then, let’s take a step back and think about this. 7 00:00:16,340 --> 00:00:21,820 I will start with this premise: Men are physically stronger than women. 8 00:00:21,820 --> 00:00:25,150 I know: even this is controversial these days. 9 00:00:25,150 --> 00:00:30,080 But men have more muscle mass and greater bone density; they run faster and punch harder. 10 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:32,600 It’s called biology. 11 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:38,000 If a woman is going to protect herself against a man who intends to do her serious harm 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,340 she needs to even the odds. 13 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:43,160 And what’s the best way for her to do that? 14 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,640 Own a gun and know how to use it. 15 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:49,960 Given this, you would think that feminists would be lining up in front of gun shops, 16 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:54,430 spending quality time at the shooting range, and filing for concealed carry permits. 17 00:00:54,430 --> 00:00:59,380 But when was the last time you heard a feminist speak out for women owning guns? 18 00:00:59,380 --> 00:01:03,020 You haven’t, because feminists aren’t for gun ownership. 19 00:01:03,020 --> 00:01:06,340 They’re for taking guns away from women. 20 00:01:06,340 --> 00:01:11,400 Well, you might say, if no one owned a gun then everybody would be safer. 21 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,220 Yes, and it would be nice if cheesecake was a diet food. 22 00:01:15,220 --> 00:01:21,060 There are over 300 million guns in the United States and that’s not going to change any time soon. 23 00:01:21,060 --> 00:01:26,840 But even if we could build a giant magnet, fly it across the country and snap up every gun, 24 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:29,880 it wouldn’t much matter to women’s safety. 25 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:34,840 In Great Britain, where it’s almost impossible to get a gun, a woman is three times more 26 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,260 likely to be raped than in America, according to a study by David Kopel, 27 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:42,620 a professor of constitutional law at Denver University. 28 00:01:42,620 --> 00:01:48,520 Here’s another telling comparison between gun-free UK and gun-owning US. 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:54,220 In the United States only about 13 percent of home burglaries take place when the occupants 30 00:01:54,220 --> 00:01:59,140 are home, but in the UK almost 60 percent do. 31 00:01:59,140 --> 00:02:01,920 Professor Kopel explains the disparity: 32 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,580 “American burglars . . . avoid occupied homes because of the risk of getting shot. 33 00:02:07,580 --> 00:02:13,500 English burglars prefer occupied homes, because there will be wallets and purses with cash.” 34 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:18,490 And, by the way, an assailant doesn’t need a gun to be dangerous. 35 00:02:18,490 --> 00:02:23,160 What do you do if you’re a woman and a man comes at you with a knife? 36 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,380 Or just his bare hands? 37 00:02:25,380 --> 00:02:30,740 If you want to depend on pepper spray or a whistle, okay, but I think your finger on 38 00:02:30,740 --> 00:02:34,120 the trigger of a gun would be more effective. 39 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,420 Take the example of mail carrier Catherine Latta. 40 00:02:37,420 --> 00:02:43,260 After she had been assaulted and raped by her ex-boyfriend, Latta tried to purchase a firearm. 41 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,920 She was told it might take a month to get a permit. 42 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:50,360 “[I’ll] be dead by then,” she recalls telling the clerk. 43 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:55,140 That afternoon, she went to a rough part of town and bought a handgun. 44 00:02:55,140 --> 00:02:59,900 Five hours later, her ex-boyfriend attacked her outside her home. 45 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:03,900 She shot him in self-defense, and saved her life. 46 00:03:03,910 --> 00:03:06,990 I should add that firing a gun is very rare. 47 00:03:06,990 --> 00:03:11,340 Just carrying it -- let alone brandishing it -- is a deterrent. 48 00:03:11,340 --> 00:03:13,220 And, isn’t that the issue? 49 00:03:13,220 --> 00:03:14,820 Personal safety? 50 00:03:14,820 --> 00:03:17,800 How is a woman supposed to defend herself? 51 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,140 What if an intruder breaks into her home? 52 00:03:21,140 --> 00:03:26,100 Liberal TV personality Sherri Shepherd answered this question a few years ago. 53 00:03:26,100 --> 00:03:29,780 “At one in the morning the alarm in our house went off,” Shepherd told her co-hosts 54 00:03:29,780 --> 00:03:32,560 on the popular daytime show, “The View.” 55 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:37,440 As the alarm blared, her husband, Sal, went downstairs to look around. 56 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,860 If something happened to him, a terrified Shephard realized, she had no way to protect 57 00:03:41,860 --> 00:03:44,120 herself or her son Jeffrey. 58 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,400 “ ...All I had was this wicker basket… 59 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:48,460 . [I] don’t have a bat, nothing.” 60 00:03:48,460 --> 00:03:51,780 “‘We’re going to get a gun,’ I told Sal. 61 00:03:51,780 --> 00:03:56,540 [This] just made me realize how vulnerable you are if you can’t protect your home. 62 00:03:56,540 --> 00:04:01,480 And the police [were] wonderful; they came about seven minutes later, but to me, 63 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,040 that’s seven minutes too late.” 64 00:04:04,049 --> 00:04:06,870 Luckily for Shepherd, the incident was a false alarm. 65 00:04:06,870 --> 00:04:12,260 But there are a lot of cases where the alarm is real, especially in high crime areas. 66 00:04:12,260 --> 00:04:17,019 Yet every year, progressives push for more and more gun control without ever considering 67 00:04:17,020 --> 00:04:19,680 who will pay the price. 68 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:21,120 It won’t be the bad guys. 69 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,660 They will always get the guns they want. 70 00:04:23,660 --> 00:04:29,240 It will be the good women who need to equal the odds in a dangerous confrontation with a man. 71 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,940 Women owning guns shouldn’t be a partisan issue. 72 00:04:31,940 --> 00:04:35,200 In fact, it’s a women’s rights issue. 73 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,520 I’m all for equality between the sexes. 74 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:39,480 And I practice what I preach. 75 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,540 That’s why I own a gun. 76 00:04:41,540 --> 00:04:44,960 I’m Katie Pavlich for Prager University.