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 no longer consider it a question of rights, but a problem of national health. <<<<<<<>>>>> 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