Ashley Mundy is the gun hater’s worse nightmare – someone whose father encouraged her to obtain a concealed carry license. She used her personal defensive handgun to defend herself and her child. She shot a neighbor high on meth, armed with a machete, who had broken into her house and was disabling her security system.
Any woman who sees this news interview (click image above to view) is likely to identify with this single mother who felt compelled to defend her child. You can see the emotional connection being made with the interviewer. You can feel the sincerity and intensity of her experience and communication.
TOPEKA, Kan (WIBW)— Ashley Mundy says the night of Oct. 08, 2015 started out like any other night. She says she fell asleep in her bed with her then four-year-old son Braedyn, but later, woke up to the sound of glass breaking. Mundy says she got up, grabbed her 9 millimeter handgun and found her neighbor, Bruce Jolly, disarming her security system. That’s when she decided to shoot.
“I was there alone with my child; My dad encouraged me to get a conceal and carry, and I just felt that was the thing to do at that moment,” said Mundy.
The emotional message of Ms. Mundy being encouraged to have a gun by her father is a powerful one that crosses cultural lines. I recall an intense conversation I had with a Muslim woman on her way back to Bangladesh. She was smart and well educated, with a PhD. As we traded life experiences, I asked about firearms in Bangladesh. She said that they had them but they were illegal and no one trusted the police. Her father had taught her how to shoot an illegal revolver.
These kinds of emotional and sincere connections are a very real threat to the false narratives (i.e., guns are more dangerous to their owners, only violent insurrectionists own firearms) that gun haters work to create. Mundy is a woman and mother who protected herself and her child from an armed drug-addled neighbor. Her father encouraged her to protect herself. Her community supported her after the fact and applauded her decision and effectiveness.
Mundy closes the deal admirably with her last comments:
Mundy says she has learned a lot from her encounter with Jolly and hopes others do too.
“You don’t have to have a conceal and carry to have a gun in your home, and why wouldn’t you want to protect yourself? Why wouldn’t you want the same weapons or defense like the people that could be coming to your home in these situations?” said Mundy.
There are many (most?) women who haven’t thought about armed self defense. This video will connect with them at a deep, emotional, level. Show it to someone who would benefit from it.
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