My financial and legal work sometimes involves planned giving, and I had an interesting meeting a couple days ago at the corporate office of an organization that helps victims of domestic violence.  Exploring ways we could work together, I mentioned I might eventually be able to provide the victims with the required course for the Utah Concealed Firearm Permit.  (The suggestion came out of my experience as instructor for both NRA’s Refuse to be a Victim course and Front Sight’s now-defunct ACPS program.)

The response was very interesting.  The male Director, who said he’d never been around guns, was not too keen on the idea, but politely asked the opinion of the other meeting participant, a female victim of domestic violence.  To his surprise, the female victim enthusiastically nodded her agreement that, in appropriate circumstances, such training could be a real helpful confidence booster and recovery vehicle for such women.