By and large, advocates of Second Amendment choice in regard to self defense are more concerned with and focused on the “solution” than the wider problems of sexism and racism that make that choice less clear-cut for a woman or PoC than they do for white males. In a topic about rape culture, that willful and typical blindness to privilege is going to understandably rub some people the wrong way.
In the Epstein case, or in the majority of cases of rape (i.e. ones that don’t involve an assault by a stranger), a woman having access to a firearm wouldn’t do much to protect her and, in many cases and venues, make things worse.
