4/5/2023 0 Comments Hands off my gun![]() With her commitment to comprehensive training, I asked her how she encourages other women to train to protect themselves and their families? We as mothers are terrified anytime our children run out in the street and we tell them about Stranger Danger, why would we not as mothers protect them at any other time and of course teach them about firearms“? ![]() ![]() Castle rock that police are not obligated to protect you or your family’s lives. It is not enough for me to know a little bit about something, I need to know everything, that’s who I am and that’s how I took on my training. I learned situational awareness tactical training and I took more than two years Krav Maga. Louis, a wonderful range that welcomed me as a woman and I trained. It was much like how I felt watching and learning from my grandfather, I wanted and needed to know everything about them. I don’t like feeling that I can’t handle something and I was angry that there were people trying to prey on what they perceived as my fears or defenselessness and I thought, never again! I knew all about rifles and knew my way around them but handguns were different, I didn’t know anything about them. “I had been in radio and done some TV when I received threats against my children and my mother instincts kicked in. When the pressure against her strong belief in the Second Amendment provoked not only controversy but also threats against her and her family, she didn’t bow to the ‘terrorism’ that was being wielded against her… She trained to protect them. Her love of guns, her deep belief in the Second Amendment and her sense of duty to preserve them is part of the fabric of her life and of who she is. “As I listened to him rock rhythmically, creaking back and forth in that swing, I never felt safer in my life”. She listened to him walk to the porch, sit in the swing and cock the shotgun. She recalls her grandmother calling ‘the law’ and the sound of her grandfather purposely walk down the hall to get his shotgun. She shared a powerful story of one night, already tucked in bed when she heard her aunt arrive sobbing and scared after being assaulted by her estranged husband. When he would come back from a hunt I would peek under the tarp to see what he came home with, I sure learned a lot of anatomy and physiology there”. I loved to watch him clean his guns and I wanted to know everything about them and how they worked. She worked three jobs so I spent a lot of time with them so my grandfather was my father figure. “My mom was a single mother during my formative years. We began in the Ozark’s and the time spent with her grandparents. She masterfully breaks down the crafted myths and the truths that we all must recognize to intelligently respond to and act on those efforts that threaten this God given right. In her book Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America Dana takes her readers from her childhood in the Ozark Mountains and her fascination with her grandfathers guns to the complex and emotionally charged present day of the political tug of war over them. We focused our conversation on women and the unique opportunity for women to drive their own futures as self-protectors and how to encourage them to become actively involved and stand up for our rights to do so. Dana is just that! With an infectious personality and charisma that just draws you in and calls you to do the same. ![]() There is nothing I admire more than a woman with convictions and opinions and the courage to boldly share and stand up for them. So we talked about her book, her thoughts on training as a woman to protect themselves and their families and what is happening politically with our Second Amendment rights. I had asked our Facebook followers and shooting chapter members for questions they would like me to ask her, but unfortunately all of the bandwidth was used up at the NRAAM in Nashville, there was no signal for me to access them. She had been on her feet for hours and I marveled at the enthusiasm she still had to sit down and talk with me. I watched her sign hundreds of books, each one with a smile and a pose for photos. I had the chance to sit down and talk with Dana Loesch following her book signing at the NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Nashville TN. ![]()
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