women & guns
Women and guns: a growing phenomenon
Yet another report. I think it's one phase of the expansion and acceptability of gun ownership that, well, this is hard to phrase. I think gun ownership and use was quite acceptable in American society from the settlement of Jamestown up to the 1960s. Then, largely under the influence of the mass media, it became less favored. After half a century of that, it is returning to the norm. Of course, that half century comprises most of our lives (or all of the life to those younger than I) so it seems as if it were a sea change. The mass media is behind the curve, still thinking in the old terms and only slowly and reluctantly realizing the new.
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Emily gets her gun
It's going to be a series at the Washington Times, as one of their reporters tries to get a gun legally in D.C..
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Article on women and guns
" Chicks with Guns’: Some 15 million US women pack heat." . It's a book review, which begins:
"Pop quiz: Name one accessory that grandmothers, moms, girls, wealthy socialites, middle-class females and low-income women might be likely to own — and cherish — all across America.
If you answered “a gun,” you’d be correct."
But here's the real shocker -- it's not in Guns and Ammo. it's from msnbc, and in US Today.
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Website on women and guns
Girls Just Want To Have Guns. Created by Regis Giles, daughter of Doug Giles, who is said to have gone boar hunting ... with a spear.
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Women and guns in CA
A favorable article in the San Mateo Times.
Hat tip to Budd Schroeder.
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Women getting CCW permits in TN
The Tennessean notes that last year 9,921 women in that state got ccw permits, an increase of 80% over 2004.
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Cam Edwards on women & self defense
Cam Edwards has a great Townhall column on the subject.
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Men are from Mars, women are from...
An interesting review of an interesting book.
It's by two female law enforcement firearms instructors, and apparently starts from the premises that women and men learn to shoot differently. It sounds like a heck of a conversation starter at, say, an academic reception. "I was just reading a book that suggests that women learn to handle themselves in a gunfight somewhat differently from how men do. You know, the "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" thesis."
UPDATE: check out the comments. We've someone online who studied under them.
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Article on women and guns
The Charlotte Observer has an article on women and guns.