Dox47 wrote:
Ahh, I've always been rather fond of Paxton Quigley, she has an awesome name if for no other reason. I know I've always found many women's distaste for firearms to be peculiar, since women are one of the groups that can benefit the most from gun ownership. Gun are the only tools that can reliably protect the weak from the strong, that freed the citizenry from oppressive (male dominated) professional warrior classes, and can often stop a violent encounter before it starts by their mere presence. I can personally attest to that last one, having dated a girl that had a man try to drag her from her truck till she stuck her Glock in his face, changed his whole state of mind in a millisecond.
I've personally taught an awful lot of women to shoot, in most cases once you get them past their ingrained fear of things they do really well, I think it has to do with not thinking they are just "supposed" to know how to shoot, men will fight me teaching them the right way to do it out of pride. I'd be thrilled if more women learned about guns and carried them for a number of reasons; more dead/maimed rapists and muggers are always a plus, once the word started getting out that women were not soft targets crimes against them would drop, and I wouldn't have to deal so much with their fear based votes on gun issues.
Somewhere in the house I have a magazine with a picture of Paxton Quigley holding a bright (and when I say bright I mean BRIGHT NEON HERE I AM YOOHOO) pink Armalite rifle. As I recall it was a range deliberately designed to appeal to women, though I'm not sure if they had totally thought the idea through. She seemed to like it anyway. There was a snub-nosed revolver in bright orange as well, but IMO that looked far too much like an emergency flare gun for safety.
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