self-defense
Daggers in Their Hair: The Gilded Age Women Who Fought Off Gropers with Deadly Sharp Hatpins
For the early part of the 20th century, it was their main source of self-defense — until city councils and cops across the country decided these women were violent menaces of society who needed to surrender their fashion-forward shivs
The Denver Shooting Is the Logical Conclusion to America’s Self-Defense Fetish
No other developed nation gives its citizens as much liberty to use fatal force
‘Rooftop Koreans’ Is More Than a Meme — It’s a Violent American Fantasy
As protests spread, shop owners like my father have become a racist symbol of true trigger-happy liberty for the far right
Pocket-Sand Self-Defense Gurus Can’t Be Serious, Can They?
What started as harmless fun on ‘King of the Hill’ has now seemingly morphed into an actual defense strategy for these dudes