Vacri, that&#x27;s not surprising - the level of anti-gun bias in academia suggests that there ought to be some pro-gun bias in there too.<p>But that doesn&#x27;t change the results of those findings, which are: if you want women to be able to actually prevent stranger rape, allowing themselves to carry guns is by far and away the most effective solution.<p>Of course that doesn&#x27;t address other social costs involved in having most of society carrying weapons.  As Rand put it:<p>&quot;Handguns are instruments for killing people — they are not carried for hunting animals — and you have no right to kill people. You do have the right to self-defense, however. I don’t know how the issue is going to be resolved to protect you without giving you the privilege to kill people at whim.&quot;.<p>Just bear in mind that one of the social costs of <i>disarmament</i> is that women are denied an effective tool for self defence.  Panic buttons on cellphones really don&#x27;t cut the mustard here.