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Ms. Froebe, 42, a small-business owner who described herself as a virgin gun shooter, concentrated and pulled the trigger. It was awesome, she said, her face flushed, after emptying the 10-round magazine. The sense of control, of being in charge of me.
In the debate over firearms regulations, the voices of gun owners have largely been those of men. But at firing ranges across the country, a growing number of women are learning to use firearms and honing their skills.
Womens participation in shooting sports has surged over the last decade, increasing by 51.5 percent for target shooting from 2001 to 2011, to just over 5 million women, and by 41.8 percent for hunting, according to the National Sporting Goods Association.
Gun sales to women have risen in concert. In a survey last year by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, 73 percent of gun dealers said the number of female customers had gone up in 2011, as had a majority of retailers surveyed in the two previous years.
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Tina Wilson-Cohen, a former Secret Service agent who founded She Can Shoot, a womens league with 10 chapters and 3,000 members across the country, said 90 percent of women who joined did so because theyve been a victim at one point of their life, of stalking or date rape or domestic violence, or they have just felt so vulnerable, and they want to feel competent and like they can protect themselves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/us/rising-voice-of-gun-ownership-is-female.html?_r=0
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(2,282 posts)Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)you still weren't in charge of you after you pulled the trigger....
Robb
(39,665 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,845 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)How many women -- by themselves -- have committed massacres like Holmes, Lanza, Loughner, or shot an innocent teen like Zimmerman?
How many of them show up at so-called "sporting events" like this:
Even better, you don't usually have to listen to a bunch of gun BS and celebration from women.
And, many may be arming up to protect themselves from male gun nuts.