Would you let your wife or daughter have a firearm? Is it really a good idea go give women rifles and guns?

Question

Doesn't sound womanly to me.

Answer 1

I own several and i can use them...I'm sucha manly female aren't I....

Answer 2

I've been a partner in a gun shop for 7 years. Women in the shooting sports is a very good idea. Just because something doesn't sound "womanly" doesn't mean anything. You're sounding very condescending. Ditch the superior male undertone. Women have been fighting in wars since before the days of the Revolution.

Answer 3

I'm lucky to be married to a wonderful woman who happens to be into firearms almost as much as I am. Her first gift for Christmas after we "got serious" (meaning she didn't kill me after the first time I embarrassed her while we were dating) was a .40 cal pistol. I think its a good thing for women to not only be knowledgable about firearms, but to own them. I don't have to worry about my wife as much knowing that when I'm away from home, she's very capable of defending herself, at least till the police show up. The rules that men should follow apply to her as well. Gun safety and knowledge. Safe-keeping and maintence, etc. From my own experience, it seems that women are actually more prone to follow the safety standards than men are. I don't in any way feel she's intruding into a "manly" area by taking an interest.

Answer 4

The womanly part makes you sound like maybe they shouldn't vote either. I mean we have equal rights these days. BUT I don't know about giving a gun to any female in my home. I guess it's cool as long as there locked up once a month and I have the key.... Not sure about guns and PMSing. *

Answer 5

I am in the military and I have seen women target 39 out of 40 and men target 6 out of 40 on the same course. Which would you prefer in battle beside you? I also watched a man piss himself on the firing range cause he had never fired a weapon before. So as to your question if they are good at it or desire to learn why stop anyone? Sounds more like a question of ego by the way I'm 35 with 3 daughters and I want them to learn how to protect themselves and not just firearms. I cannot be there all the time and neither can you? What use is a firearm to your spouse if she has never learned to fire it and burglars or worse occur and you own one? Afterthought I fired 40 out of 40 on the same course first time.

Answer 6

Annie Oakley would disagree. She promoted the idea of women owning firearms for self-defense and received letters from women that had stopped robberies and held the criminal at gunpoint until the police could arrive. She was known to strive to keep her femininity and to move along women's rights in the 19th century.

Answer 7

"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand." - Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), speech in San Franscisco, July 1871

"The available information does not indicate that gun control will reduce violent crime against women. Much of the information actually points in the opposite direction ... gun control measures ... actually hurt women by restricting or removing the most effective method of self-defense available ...." - Larish, Inge Anna, "Why Annie Can't Get Her Gun: A Feminist Perspective on the Second Amendment," Univ. of Illinois Law Review, 1996, Issue 2

Answer 8

You better be quiet. I'll shoot you for talking like that. I have a gun and I am very womanly!! And lady like!!! I'm just kidding, I would never shoot you, but I do have a firearm and I am a lady.

Answer 9

Actually, back in the US when people were settling in the West, the wife got a rifle of her own to protect the family when the father was away.

Answer 10

are you 12?

Answer 11

Guns in the hand of the right person...protect.

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