Autumn Parkin, a Violent Crime Victim, Feels Empowered After Learning to Use Firearms
"I can honestly say, it wasn't until I started shooting that I actually started to heal. Because I got some of that power back."
Autumn Parkin has first-hand experience with violent crime. When America talks about the horrors of violent crime, she knows exactly what the reality of violent crime is.
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When she was growing up, she lived in a liberal home, without firearms, and didn’t believe Americans needed firearms. She thought of herself as a good person and violence wouldn’t ever find her. But she was violently raped by two classmates when she was 15, and then stabbed in her own home six years later. What she went through left her terrified and feeling defenseless, even into adulthood.
Rather than calling for the disarmament of law-abiding Americans, she took up her 2nd Amendment rights and armed herself.
“Training has been tremendously healing for me. I can honestly say, it wasn’t until I started shooting that I actually started to heal. Because I got some of that power back. It was very empowering. I didn’t feel so defenseless. I felt like I had a tool that would make me an equal.” -Autumn Parkin
Firearms are the great equalizer. They are a tool that allows the lone small woman to defend herself against multiple attackers, rather than hope the police arrive in time.
You can hear Parkin’s full story in the For the Record episode “Infringed.” It’s available on-demand at theblaze.com/tv.
Written by Brian Purkiss - always a student, sometimes a teacher.
I don't consider myself a competition shooter - I think of myself as a performance pistol shooter. I am all about performing at as high of a level as possible. Towards that end, I am obsessive about learning how to perform. I spend a lot of my life learning from the best across the entire firearms world and even into other areas of performance and other sports. I am a USPSA Carry Optics Grandmaster, currently working towards my second GM title in the Open division.
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