{"id":8683,"date":"2017-07-24T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2017-07-24T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:35:05","slug":"in-chicago-women-worried-about-violence-join-gun-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/in-chicago-women-worried-about-violence-join-gun-club\/","title":{"rendered":"In Chicago, women worried about violence join gun club"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fellowship of the Minds<\/strong>
\nby DCG
\n7\/24\/2017<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another devastating weekend in Chiraq with a large amount of shootings<\/a>. Women living there are doing something to protect themselves. Shannon Watts<\/a> hardest hit.<\/em><\/p>\n

From France 24<\/a>: Her hands slowed by rheumatoid arthritis, 71-year-old Marietta Crowder stands in front of her paper target, steadies her gun and pulls the trigger. Shots are fired in quick succession.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Crowder is perhaps not the typical patron of a gun club. But she is one of seven women learning to safely handle firearms at a shooting range in a suburb of Chicago, a city wracked by gun violence and a soaring murder rate. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband influenced me and we thought about it a long time. Maybe you need a gun these days, in your house at least,\u201d said Crowder, who lives in a gated community with her retired banker husband.<\/em><\/p>\n

A fellow retiree, Javondlynn Dunagan, came up with the idea of gun training classes geared toward women, and for the \u201cLadies of Steel\u201d gun club<\/strong> \u2014 after successful training, the women gather twice a month to practice their skills.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dunagan served as a parole officer for 25 years before finishing her career in January, but had rarely held a gun when dealing with convicts. \u00a0She said she started carrying one after divorcing her police officer husband. \u00a0\u201cI was at home by myself with my daughter, and I was used to having a firearm in a home with my ex-husband,\u201d she explained. \u201cSo, I wanted to make sure that we were safe.\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

But Dunagan noticed something curious when she visited gun ranges around Chicago to practice. \u00a0\u201cI noticed that I never saw two women at the range together or a group of ladies,\u201d<\/strong> she recounted.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dunagan was particularly struck by the lack of African-American women like herself interested in learning how to use firearms. <\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI started asking friends and they said, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m scared of guns.’\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

That answer prompted her to start JMD Defense & Investigations, offering gun training programs geared towards women<\/strong>. The \u201cinvestigations\u201d side of the business will debut next year.<\/em><\/p>\n

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h\/t Drudge<\/a><\/p>\n

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