Grandmothers Launch 'Women Armed and Ready' Because They're
'Tired of Being Victims'
by AWR Hawkins 5 Aug 2014, 2:00 PM
PDT
Grandmothers Konnie Couch and
Robin Willoughby were both robbed in 2011. They responded by forming
"Women Armed and Ready" (WAR), a group that trains women to carry
guns and prepares them to shoot under pressure, because "they were tired
of being victims and didn't want to see others go through what they did."
According to Cincinnati.com,
Couch said, "The thing of it is, bad things
happen to good people all the time, and, if something bad is going to happen,
it's going to happen without warning. It's going to be very quick, and you've
got to be prepared for it.
She said the main goal of WAR is
"to get women trained and [in a position] where, if they have to... they
would be able to react and save themselves."
All WAR members have concealed
carry licenses.
On July 30 the National Shooting Sports
Foundation's Larry Keane wrote about the
growing diversity in gun ownership and particularly the surge of gun ownership
among women. He pointed out that this is especially true when it comes to
concealed carry, where last year states like Florida
reported that 22 percent of their permit holders were women; Tennessee reported 30 percent.
Cincinnati.com
reports that "Indiana
alone has issued 123,536 firearms licenses to women
in the first quarter of 2014."
It appears the grandmothers of WAR
are by no means the only women who've decided they are "tired of being
victims."
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