The other type of pro-choice

Newsday.com's Susan Cheever writes about purchasing a firearm and later giving it up in a discussion of Caitlin Kelly's "Blown Away: American Women and Guns". Following a break-in where she was nearly raped, Ms. Cheever purchased a .22 pistol. Some time later, after getting married and having children, she got rid of the gun.

Many of us will disagree with her logic in parting with the gun. Even she seems to question her reasoning. She admits that a gun is a "great equalizer". The average woman can easily use a firearm to defend herself in combat against a much larger and more powerful male attacker. It was, never the less, her choice to dispose of the gun; just as it was her choice to purchase it in the first place.

Those who oppose the right to keep and bear arms would rob her, and other women, of that choice. They've decided that they will dail 911 and take their chances if the time comes and they demand that you do the same.