Women's Views on Gun Control, Gun Safety, and Gun Ownership

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Women's Views on Gun Control, Gun Safety, and Gun Ownership

Women and Guns - LONG story

Women and Guns - Women's Views on Gun Control, Gun Safety, and Gun Ownership

VERY LONG article - here is an introduction:

To read any set of statistics about guns in the United States is to read about men. Surveys typically assess gun ownership by household, meaning that if one person keeps a gun, his or her choice ends up representing the preference of everyone in the home. Counting by household silences the voice of whoever lost the debate, if there was one. And in the important and demographically lopsided issue of gun ownership, the silenced voice is usually a woman's.

It's a blind spot we're seeking to correct. MarieClaire.com has partnered with the Harvard Injury Control Research Center to study American women's beliefs, opinions, and experiences in relation to gun ownership and gun control, the results of which are published here for the first time. More than 5,000 people were surveyed—as individuals rather than households—and the results illuminate a nuanced landscape for women and guns. As you see in the infographics here (and the full survey and methodology here), it turns out that when women are allowed to speak for themselves, they have very different things to say.

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LOTS of information and statistics ...

Well written article.

Bekeart
 
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The articles linked were worth the read. The whole thing was very well-balanced and informative IMO.

The girl gang article was great, if disturbing.

Thanks Bekeart !
 
You can bet anything coming out of Harvard will have an anti-gun slant and this certainly does. The more of it you read the worse it gets. It is basically a plea for women to express their opposition to guns at the polls, complete with sad stories of women who have lost children to guns, a blatant attempt to emotionalize the topic. UHG! Basically anti-gun propaganda.
 
I can only give an opinion of the ladies in my area, but....

When I decided to start dating again, I joined a couple of dating sites. After hearing for many years that most women were anti-gun, I was a bit concerned that my hobby might scare them off. So shortly after first contact with a potential date, I made a point of telling them that I am a gun owner, shooter and that I do regularly carry a gun on me. If this was going to be a problem, then let's get it out right at the start and not waste each other's time.
Over the next few years, I had at least one date with about a dozen women and e-mail contact with quite a few more. For the most part it didn't work out, but guns were never the issue. Not a single one of these ladies had any kind of problem with the guns or with me carrying. In fact, many of them liked the idea and expressed interest in getting a gun of their own. One even asked me to take her to a gun show for our first date.
I'm also proud to say that the lady who became my now girl friend asked me to teach her to shoot, took the class and is now waiting for her Handgun Permit to arrive in the mail. :D

Like I said, I can only speak for my little corner of the world, but I do believe that this common belief that most women fear guns is a bunch of hog wash.
 
This isn't an issue with any women in my combined family. All are pro-gun. Might I add, :-)))))
 
information that quotes statistics can be slanted in any direction which the author wishes to convey to the reader....
 
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