This is what I'm talking about !

I found reference to these articles (armed women #1 & armed women #2) while reading Mallard Fillmore today.

The November 5, 2006 comic will be archived here until Dec 4, 06. Mallard Fillmore has to be one of my favorites - he never ceases to point up the foibles of the media. For instance today's comic says "The part of the handgun in this cartoon is, as always, played by a banana due to newspaper editors reactions to previous depictions of handguns in this comic strip."

In his strip today, Mr Tinsley/Mallard is depicting an elderly woman defending herself against a mugger armed with a knife. (Apparently "newspaper editors" have no problem with the depiction of a criminal armed with a knife - interesting double standard)

Tinsley states "*See Mary Katherine Ham's column about real women who've foiled violent predators because those women were armed at townhall.com, because you won't hear about 'em from the mainstream media..." so i decided to look 'em up and put a link to them, too.

Ya' gotta love a woman who can defend herself.