Why do there appear to be so few women shooters here?

[NWGlockgal]

A pro second amendment person isn't allowed in the liberal club. That are very discriminating on that (and other) points.

I don't agree. My sister is a liberal and doesn't personally like guns.
But she is not for taking away the 2A right of gun owners. Her husband falls into the same political spectrum as her and he is a gun owner. But they are not part of the extreme progressive left. There are all shades of "liberal", just as there are different shades of "conservative".

 

[Argonaut]

I am not a single issue voter like many here are but anyone that voted Democrat by definition can't be pro second amendment.......all you have to do is look at that boring inconvient subject.........History. It is well past time to be squishy on the subject. The Democratic Party is the party of the Confederacy, Jim Crow, the KKK, and most the evil they claim to decry today. They were strong opponents to civil rights well into the 60's and wherever the constitution gets in the way of there anti freedom agenda, they just ignore it. You need to study more. The first anti second amendment laws were written pushed by Woodrow Wilson and his cronies (even though passed by a later congress) they put thousands of loyal Americans in interment camps and got the world into every war in the 20th century because they refuse to keep a strong standing military.

 

[DB is Here]

I am not a single issue voter like many here are but anyone that voted Democrat by definition can't be pro second amendment.......all you have to do is look at that boring inconvient subject.........History.

Watch a few video's of Dave Rubin on You Tube. I think you'll find a tide is turning...IMO

 

[partsed]

I'll agree that's more often true then not.

If I gave my wife $500 and said go spend, she would come back home with clothes and a purse.

I think because women are judged on their appearance more then men.


I'd buy a gun or ammo and wear jeans that were faded and worn out...

TMI-but my wife brought home a step stool yesterday (aka Squatty Potty) and I found it strategically placed by our toilet, I asked her "why did you buy one of those??" She replied "We've been talking about one for awhile and so I bought one". My reply was "I've been talking about buying a new gun, but I didn't go buy one..." That's when the fight started.......


Just kidding.....

 

[Colts4me]

Just opinion again and all I have to back it up is being alive for 66 years. I kinda chuckle when folks think they will win the hearts and minds of the other side if they are just nice to them, I would like people to show me where that ever worked. In my world I haven't seen people change their minds without radical events taking place. People have to get mugged to see they need a gun.

What I do find is since you can't change people you either have to live with them or move away. My best policy is if we disagree then go ahead and choose your own direction and live the life you are creating. It's what people do, they create the life they are going to live by the choices they make. Folks who can't see the 2nd amendment keeps them safe and give it up will live in crime infested areas, its' the choice they make. It shouldn't be that the 2nd and self protection has to be won from the left, they should be smart enough to realize they need it too.

So when it comes to gender and self protection if you don't want to be a victim then protect yourself. For decades women used to complain that men spent too much time watching sports and in fact women were right. If just a little of that football time was spent in politics the country would run right. However today the world has completely turned around with Facebook running women's lives, you can't get a woman off the phone to even drive safe so how will you ever get them to support gun rights.

If you want women to support your gun rights then they will have to see its pc on Facebook to do so.

Of course the women here are excluded from the generalizations

 

[Argonaut]

Great comment.........I think we forget how much fun shooting is. My youngest son is married to a young teacher from Rainier Oregon that is the product of teacher parents. She has some issues that she can get pretty far out on (my son says that they would come more often if we quit telling her she is a communist) but she is coming around. My son and USCG friends shoot and she has been going along......she loves it. But still has a thing about AR's. They are coming up before they PCS to Puerto Rico later in the spring. He said she would love shooting the AR's but we have to use a different name for them. Now, if we can just convince her what a con the Clinton's are all will be good.

 

[arakboss]

It's not an AR anymore it's a MSR

 

[SouthernGirl]

My husband, @WillametteWill, told me about this thread and suggested I read it. I've always enjoyed shooting sports and I'm headed to Gunsite this week to improve my skills. My goal is to start a Well Armed Woman chapter in our area because I've see a need. But to be honest I've talked to some women who feel when they shoot they're being "watched" which translates to critiqued. This happens with many "masculine" sports, I get it. I see it on bodybuilding.com and in Boy Scouts. We have 3 sons, I've always enjoyed the outdoor sports, hated dresses and my dad was sure I'd get married in Levi's. I've never cared for the little details of the sport, just give me a gun and a target and I was happy. I'm changing that thought process and I'm being more involved. I can't answer why we don't post but it might be many don't know what or how to ask without feeling "stupid" or maybe like me haven't spent time on the forum because @WillametteWill fills me in but I will do my part on NWFA to get more women involved. Just my two cents worth.

 

[Certaindeaf]

.I've talked to some women who feel when they shoot they're being "watched" which translates to critiqued..

Everyone is being watched and critiqued, most always mentally, not verbally.. it is a dangerous, unforgiving and critical undertaking so maybe tell them they aren't being singled out.

 

[SouthernGirl]

I took a 4H archery course last month. I know nothing about archery. There were 2 other women and 2 men. The girls didn't want to shoot because of the guys watching them. I told them move past that and shoot. The guys were actually helpful and the girls relaxed. It's about how you approach people.

 

[Kristina]

Everyone is being watched and critiqued, most always mentally, not verbally.. it is a dangerous, unforgiving and critical undertaking so maybe tell them they aren't being singled out.

Truth.

 

[Gl0ckGirl]

In my welcome thread I was warned about locker room talk, which I can handle just fine in the right scenario. Coming into a predominantly male environment as a female you kinda have to know what you're up against. However I agree with @DuneHopper, I can see how women may not want to participate as much because there always seems to be that one guy who takes it too far or initiates it from left field and scares them off. I saw it in my own thread I posted a couple weeks ago. A female was responding to me and someone took her words and twisted them to make a sexual innuendo and that was the only thing he contributed, nothing related to the topic. So like @Reno911 said, not the most female friendly.

I 100% agree with what @SouthernGirl said as well! I'm a member at Threat Dynamics and I purposely call ahead and reserve the VIP lane just because it's the last lane and (aside from the security camera) is more private. Someone has to go out of their way to poke their head around the corner and be up in my business or watch me shoot. I've ran into enough guys who try and tell me I'm doing something wrong. Why? Because I'm female, new to shooting, and not doing it there way? Hhmm So I try and avoid unsolicited advise, which is really hard to do sometimes.

 

[Kruel J]

In my welcome thread I was warned about locker room talk, which I can handle just fine in the right scenario. Coming into a predominantly male environment as a female you kinda have to know what you're up against. However I agree with @DuneHopper, I can see how women may not want to participate as much because there always seems to be that one guy who takes it too far or initiates it from left field and scares them off. I saw it in my own thread I posted a couple weeks ago. A female was responding to me and someone took her words and twisted them to make a sexual innuendo and that was the only thing he contributed, nothing related to the topic. So like @Reno911 said, not the most female friendly.

I 100% agree with what @SouthernGirl said as well! I'm a member at Threat Dynamics and I purposely call ahead and reserve the VIP lane just because it's the last lane and (aside from the security camera) is more private. Someone has to go out of their way to poke their head around the corner and be up in my business or watch me shoot. I've ran into enough guys who try and tell me I'm doing something wrong. Why? Because I'm female, new to shooting, and not doing it there way? Hhmm So I try and avoid unsolicited advise, which is really hard to do sometimes.

Well said.

 

[FireArm]

I got my woman to start a profile. She rarely gets on here, but I see her on FB. She owns three guns two I gave her (so I could get more) and one she bought herself, but I showed it to her.
she shoots but like FB she rarely posts anything. I dont believe she ever post on this site.
She does like her Raspberry Ruger SR22.

 

[Member 34319]

There are no liberal 2nd amendment supporters. Not even all conservitives are supporters. Has nothing to do with gender. My wife and daughter can be further right than I am (hard to believe). There is a spectrum, the further left you go the closer you get to being a communist but the second amendment is a good place to draw the line between right and left (or good and evil)

This type of thinking is why most people hate talking about politics.

Most things empowering women and women's rights are considered to be liberal. Or progressive. So most women that lead those lives are of the liberal mentality.

Just because the live like that, doesn't mean they can't be a gun owner or pro two A.

Also, just because you are pro two A doesn't make you a right wing extremist.

This whole "chose a side" thing is really bad politics.

 

[Certaindeaf]

.Most things empowering women and women's rights are considered to be liberal..

Many would say that capitalism empowers women, not liberal government.

 

[Argonaut]

This type of thinking is why most people hate talking about politics.

Most things empowering women and women's rights are considered to be liberal. Or progressive. So most women that lead those lives are of the liberal mentality.

Just because the live like that, doesn't mean they can't be a gun owner or pro two A.

Also, just because you are pro two A doesn't make you a right wing extremist.

This whole "chose a side" thing is really bad politics.

That is BS........do you know what the first state was to give women the vote? It wasn't some Democratic leaning eastern socialist state.......it was Wyoming. Just like the people that freed the slaves......Republicans, and the first states to recognize equal property rights were all western conservitives. You are spewing myths falsely promoted by the left wing. Conservitives have always done a better job promoting people equally including women. Look at Republican vs Democratic administrations....have you ever heard of Sara Palin, Condileezza Rice, or how about Nikki Haley or have you ever heard of Jeane Kirkpatrick? Not only are they women (and minorities) they are effective and good at there job unlike the puppets appointed by Democrats as eyewash......like Janet Reno.

 

[Member 34319]

I'm not saying those that empower women weren't republican.

I'm saying that women that promote furthering women's rights, tend to be liberal.

I don't have any explanation as to why, but they do.

Perhaps it is the propaganda at work, maybe something else.

Just my simple observation.

This is my observation to why less women are active among firearms.

 

[rick benjamin]

This thread is a day late and a dollar short.
Because you're wrong, no matter what you say or do.

 

[Certaindeaf]

This thread is a day late and a dollar short.
Because you're wrong, no matter what you say or do.

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