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Based on statistics, its much more likely that she would've been shot if she had pulled the gun on her assailant.
Amanda Collins is a young rape survivor. While in college in 2007, she was raped 50 feet away from the campus police department office at the University of Nevada-Reno and was lucky to get out alive. Her attacker was James Biela, a serial rapist who raped two other women and murdered another. He attacked her at gun point in a gun free zone. At the time of the attack, Collins was in possession of a concealed weapons permit but was not in possession of her firearm due to university policies prohibiting carrying concealed weapons on campus. She was also a...
How you rationalized that I was insinuating that women cannot protect themselves is beyond me. If anything, I'm insinuating that women don't need a gun to protect themselves because alternatives are available.
Can you cite those statistics? Are they for black belts, or just the general population?
Having actually had quite a bit of experience with combatives and pistol training, I can tell you that it's damned difficult to take a gun from someone without getting shot, unless you're using movies and TV as your baseline.
The latest prisoners surveys estimate that 3,600 rapes a day are never attempted because the victim either showed a gun, said she had a gun, or the rapist though the victim had a gun for some other reason.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/guns-prevent-3600-rapes-a-day/
You're right - she could not have legally protected herself with a firearm on that campus. But, she could have legally protected herself with a legal weapon such as mace, on that campus and there would've been a 0% probability that would've mistakenly killed an innocent bystander.
You can get a concealed weapons permit on-line without any practical training. Just because you have a CC permit, doesn't mean you're undergone the proper training.