If a woman has to frequently travel through an alley known for rapists...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

This type of scenario is the main reason I've never gotten the argument that there is "no point" in owning a handgun.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Nothing is 'immoral'. 

Rapist Alley sounds funny though.  I was just reading a DVD cover over here of a Meryl Streep movie in which Streep  plays a therapist, and the Thai bad-English was 'The rapist Meryl Streep'.  I lol in teh store.

Hey, I read on wikipedia on their list of pornography laws by country that pornography is illegal in Thailand. Am I correct in assuming that this is virtually never enforced?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Is Playboy illegal or only "hardcore" stuff?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm struggling to imagine why it would be impossible for a woman to get to where she's going without going through an alley known for rapists.  Even if you carried a handgun, you'd still be pretty stupid for going that route.

Maybe because she lives in the area and there isn't really a "safe" way to get there? The number of sexual predators in my neighborhood is certainly higher than average, considering my apartment building gets flyers posted every few months with warnings from the police about the latest rapist or assailant who was in the area. It's also possible she lives in a place like Camden or East St. Louis where it might very well be impossible to go through a "safe" area.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm not saying the police SHOULD neglect the alley, but what if they do? If the police are incompetent, you have to do things yourself.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Depends if she's trained on how to use a handgun...if she's not, she or another innocent person is more likely to come to harm than the gun actually saving her.
If she has firearm training, and the gun is properly licensed and registered, and she has passed psychological tests, then I guess I will have to be ok with it, even though I don't like it.

If a person can safely use a gun, why do you not like it? This is actually one of the things I noticed that turned me against gun control, that gun control advocates think out of more of a general aversion toward guns rather than actual concern about the harm guns cause (especially since they often admit banning guns wouldn't do much to prevent this)