How To Get Women Into The Gun Concept

This has been a hot topic of conversation for several months now, making national news of the record breaking number of women purchasing guns and getting concealed carry permits.  There has also been an increase in the number of women seeking training in general self-defense tactics. 

Still there remains an “antigun” biases with a large population of women.  Some refer to it as the Suzy Homemaker Issue.  Women have achieved being equals in our culture, but many still hold on to the thought process that the gun is the symbol of male violence and therefore something they want nothing to do with, even something they allow themselves to fear.  It is a topic discussed by Susan Brown Miller in her book Against our Will.  I acknowledge that there was a time and place in our history that that may have been true.  But in today’s modern progressive society especially where a woman may very well be the head of her own household, the gun is a tool just like any other.  It is not about male or female, it is about empowerment.  As women we take on the role of Mother Bear to protect our cubs.  We don’t have claws or teeth as does a real mother bear, so we need to get them artificially… guns, knives, kubatans, pepper spray, stun guns… these are all forms of claws and teeth we use to protect ourselves and our loved ones. 

What I ask of all women is that you give yourself every opportunity to learn, grow and thrive in all ways possible.  Learning to handle firearms for sport shooting or otherwise is a very empowering adventure and it changes your perception of “self”.  It is very important for women to have positive female role models in the firearms industry.  I strongly encourage you when seeking out a firearms training course, that you look for one that has a female role model on staff rather than an overall male environment.  Especially if you are new and feeling timid.  Knowing that there is someone like you teaching from a similar perspective will ease the experience. 

It might not be for you, it might turn out to be the most exciting experience you have ever had, but it will spark a feeling inside you of YES I CAN.  Take that and use it in your life.  Learn… Grow… Thrive!

Resources for Women in the Firearms Industry

·         Kathy Jackson- The cornered cat

·         Gila Hayes- Effective Defense, The woman the plan and the gun, Personal defense for woman

·         Paxton Quigley- Armed and Female