From: [j--yk--m] at [csulb.edu] (Jwhee Kim)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: 60 Minutes, starring Paxton Quigley and Sarah Brady
Date: 11 Oct 1993 08:35:00 -0400

J. Case Kim                             9202 Walker Street
[kim 39] at [husc.harvard.edu]                  Cypress, CA 90630-3130

                                        October 11, 1993


Report on "Arms & The Woman"
Broadcast Sunday 10 october 1993
CBS 60 Minutes, first story of three in this show
Producer:  Patti Hassler
Interviewer for 60 Minutes:  Either M. Wallace or M. Safer??
  (call him "Interviewer")

     Intro:  Interviewer says that in 1989, Smith and Wesson
introduced a gun line called the "Ladysmith."  Since 1991, sales
have doubled.  Why do 15-20 million American women own guns?

     Author and Firearms Instructor Paxton Quigley talks about how
training women to use guns is a form of equality.  She says that it
can be interpreted as a form of feminist empowerment.  Points out
that men have had guns as tools for hundreds of years while women
have traditionally stayed away from them.

     Interviewer notes that Paxton Quigley was once a gun-control
activist a long time ago.  Asks how she became interested in guns. 
She says a friend was raped.  Interview cuts to a film of Quigley
teaching a class to some women.  Quigley tells a story.  Her friend
heard a man trying to break into the house.  She called the police
and demanded help.  The man broke in, raped the woman, and then
left.  The police arrived 30 minutes after the emergency call had
been placed.  Cut back to interview: Quigley says that's when she
first decided to buy a gun.

     Interviewer:  "The simple fact is that women are buying guns
like never before."

     Interview with Rhonda Carter, a nurse in Kentucky.  Late one
night she returned from her shift, carrying her gun in the glove
compartment, which she had routinely done for some time.  One
reason she did this was that her husband was a police officer and
often was not home when she returned at night.  She parked the car,
got the gun, and exited the garage.  An assailant seized her arms,
turned her around (so that her back was to him), and started to
tear at her clothes.  Unable to aim, Ms. Carter aimed over her left
shoulder, guessing where the assailant might be.  He fell over and
she called police.  Assailant died of single bullet wound to the
heart.  Interviewer asks Ms. Carter if she feels any remorse for
the would-be rapist.  She pauses for a long moment and then says,
"No.  He attacked me and I defended myself.  It sounds callous, but
no."

     Second interview with Sylvia Hazzard.  She carried a gun in
her purse.  One night she was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to
drive to an isolated area in the local mountains.  Her assailant
raped her at gunpoint.  He then ordered her to put her clothes on
and ordered her out of the vehicle.  Her cigarettes and purse (with
gun inside) were on the floor.  She asked if she could get her
cigarettes, and the rapist pointed his gun at her head and told
her, "No.  You won't be needing those."  Ms. Hazzard says she felt
sure, at that moment, that the rapist meant to kill her, and so she
had nothing to lose by going for the gun.  The rapist fired and
then she fired.  Rapist missed, she did not, and the rapist died. 
She tells interviewer that now she wouldn't go anywhere without her
gun.

     Third interview:  Sarah Brady of Handgun Control, Inc.  Ms.
Brady says that while handguns may make women feel safer, women are
in fact less safe after buying a gun.  Says, "If more guns made us
safer, then America would be the safest nation in the world." 
Tells interviewer that a gun in the home is 43 times more likely to
kill a family member than an illegal intruder.  Interviewer says
those "43" (of the 43-to-1 ratio) include suicides, accidents, and
homicide.

     Fourth interview: Sharon Kendall, of Kansas.  Ms. Kendall's
young son was killed in a firearms accident.  Ms. Kendall was
considering purchasing a gun for protection.  Neighbor's grandson
brought over a handgun and showed it to Ms. Kendall.  She thanked
him for his help, walked away, went 30 feet, and heard a shot.  Her
son had been accidentally shot by the neighbor's grandson, and died
four hours later.  She told the interviewer that if all women could
experience what it was like for her to lose her son, gun sales
would drop and some gun owners would give up their guns.

     Sarah Brady says that women like Ms. Carter, Ms. Hazzard, and
Ms. Kendall, are not to blame for such tragedies, but that the
blame lies with the gun industry and people like Paxton Quigley.

     In return, Paxton Quigley says she has trained about 3500
women to shoot and that these women have told her amazing stories. 
Only elaboration is about a woman who is being stalked by a man who
did some repair work inside her home.  She is shown learning to
shoot in Quigley's class.  She obtained a restraining order against
this man but says he continues to terrorize her anyway.  (It is
implied that the police cannot protect her until he actually does
something to her.)

     Interviewer summarizes by saying that the debate about guns
has changed.  Says Clinton and the <some health group in
Washington, either CDC or other similar organization> no longer
consider it a question of rights, but a problem of national health.
<<<<<<<<END OF ROUGH TRANSCRIPT>>>>>>

From: Case
	Hey, it wasn't too bad!  Except for the problematical
43-to-1 quote, it seemed almost in favor of the RKBA than
in favor of gun control.  However, the interviewer did imply
that Clinton and the health agency (CDC?) were anti-gun
and believed that gun control was important for our nation's
health.
	Also, in the 43-to-1 stat at least the interviewer 
said that the 43 part includes suicides.
	Hope all of you who didn't see this enjoyed my summary.
-Case