Mr. Longboat is spot on.
In my experience only insecure men with small peni need guns.
As for women running with firearms...truly can't think of a more idiotic or dangerous idea.
Also, women need to understand that the sort of men who want to hassle or rape a woman see behavior such as a woman running after dark, or running in isolated areas as an invitation. In these creeps twisted minds, you want it.
I'll never forget the comment a guy from the UO men's team made to me in my twenties. Was living in Eugene, and out for a run just before dusk with him. This was in the 80s, and the previous week, local resident Mary Decker Slaney had been attacked while out on a run at a similar time of day. Unsettling for local female runners to say the least.
In conversation with this guy from the men's team about the attack, his comment was that any woman who ran alone after dark "deserved" to be raped. She (Mary) "asked for it."
I was too young at the time to really take in the magnitude of this guy's comment in terms of what it should have taught me about how some men justify deviant psychosexual behavior patterns.
Bottom line, whether we like it or not, women need to forget about *arming* themselves, find safe places to run, and run with a partner after dark. Don't "ask for it".