Woman Hiker Makes Compelling Argument for Carrying a Gun on Her Trails

[sarisataka]

Woman Hiker Makes Compelling Argument for Carrying a Gun on Her Trails

Whether they're cisgendered, trans, straight, lesbian, or even just trying to buy some dang groceries, women will have stories about men trying to creep on them. Most women will have a story about men who prey on them and/or otherwise harass them at any given moment, making it nearly impossible for them to get things done without having to look over their shoulders. Folks will often downplay the struggle, they'd be shocked to realize just how much strife women go through regularly.

One of the worst instances, however, comes when women are preyed upon by men in the middle of nowhere with little recourse to avoid them. When it comes to Jezzika (@jezzikac on TikTok), she's a hiker with a startling amount of experience with creepy men. It's for that reason that she's elected to carry a gun with her while on her hikes, and it's helped her out on more than one occasion. She presents a shockingly compelling argument on why she carries her "pew pew" with her at all times when hiking.

While gun violence in the United States is a serious issue and more regulations ought to be put in place to protect folks from frequent mass shootings, Jezzika isn't playing around with her own firearm.

Whenever she goes hiking with her sister, she always makes sure to bring both animal repellent and her gun with her to deter both wild animals and predatory men respectively. Reportedly, she's had to use one more than the other, and spoiler alert, she's never had to use the spray.

https://www.distractify.com/p/woman-hiker-explains-carrying-gun

[Silent Type]

1. Women have more reason to tote than men. However, it's mostly men toting on trails or elsewhere.

Think we'd be better off without guns on the streets and now trails.

[ret5hd]

2. Bear repellent doesn't work on humans.

[markie]

6. bear repellent

doesn't work on bears... unless you know how to use it and do it right.

[bottomofthehill]

9. Bear Repellant definitely works on humans.

Most bear sprays are the same as the pepper spray used on humans. Just a bigger bottle, more highly concentrated and can shoot further due to the size of the container. I have been exposed to Bear Spray, it is fucking savage. Pepper spray is tolerable, but the bear spray literally took my breath away and I was not even a direct hit.

There is a reason that the sick fucks who attacked the Capitol on 1/6 used Bear Spray as a weapon of choice.

[ret5hd]

11. I know it does. My sarcasm projector is faulty today.

I changed the oil and spark plugs yesterday, but maybe I need to adjust the timing. Timing seems to be key on these things.

[AndyS]

3. Perhaps things worked out for this one woman but

a person, man or woman, is 5x more likely to be injured or killed trying to use a gun in self defense than not.

A gun will turn an assailant's mind from rape to murder.

[ret5hd]

12. We hike almost constantly. A lot of far back woods.

Last week we (spouse and I) saw 3 black bears in two days…black, chocolate, and cinnamon.

We hike in city parks. We have walked miles and miles in NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, Belize City, Barcelona, London, Ghent/Bruges, Dallas/Fort Worth, Portland, Denver, Atlanta, etc etc etc. Through good parts of town and bad.

We camp, very often completely isolated, nobody around for miles. Sometimes in a campground, with others within feet.

Not once, ever, have we felt the need for a gun in any of those situations.

[TexasDem69]

15. Yet it worked out here

And we should be glad about that.

[AndyS]

17. So far . . .

[NoRethugFriends]

4. Gn humoers gonna be gun-humpers

[sanatanadharma]

5. "Distractify" seems to be an online 'peoples' magazine for the viral video era

Not addressing any aspect of self-defense other than the definition of "self".

Decades of internet info, fact, fiction, rumor, stardom, social-media, money, more ... are fragmenting society into 'extreme-individualism', a plague of MEanness in the pursuit of MEness in excess of youness; says ME.

However "I" will never claim difference between I (grammatically-me) and every pair of eyes that also say "I".
I do fear meeting anyone on any trail anywhere who can't simply ignore me as do I thee.

[markie]

7. I hike alone

in the woods, often... and don't feel a need for a gun or repellent.

same reason for both... not practiced and if used improperly, only makes things worse

[SharonAnn]

13. Are you male or female?

[markie]

14. I am female

[Quakerfriend]

8. I don't blame her- Sadly, most women

are harassed or stalked at some point in their life.
Of my 5 sisters, four have been. I estimate that at least 75% of the women I know. And, that is a low estimate.

[doc03]

10. There is no way I would hike alone without a gun. I had one encounter on

the Pennellas Bike Trail in Florida while bike riding, I am glad I had a gun just in case. A missing 76 year old women was found on a
bike trail in Western PA a couple months ago she had been raped and murdered. I am 75 year old man, I have
come across some strange characters riding a bike.

[TexasDem69]

16. I've hiked parts of the Appalachian Trail

You run into some odd folks there on occasion