Studies show that when a woman owns a firearm, it is far more likely to be used against her than by

[riversedge]

Gun-Rights Advocates Claim Owning a Gun Makes a Woman Safer. The Research Says They’re Wrong.

https://www.thetrace.org/2016/05/gun-ownership-makes-women-safer-debunked/

Studies show that when a woman owns a firearm, it is far more likely to be used against her than by her.

by Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes

·May 2, 2016

Gun-rights advocates are seeking to win new support for their agenda by promoting, with increasingly strident rhetoric, the notion that women are safest when they are armed.

“All of America’s women, you aren’t free if you aren’t free to defend yourself,” National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre declared in a fiery speech in March. Marion Hammer, a former NRA president who wields tremendous political influence in Florida, accused opponents of a guns-on-campus bill of “engaging in a war on women” last August.

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has brought the notion into the 2016 campaign. “If you’re a single mom living in a tough neighborhood,” he said on “Good Morning America” recently, “the Second Amendment protects your right, that if someone comes through the window trying to harm your kids … You have a right to be armed to protect your family.”


Gun marketers, too, have pushed women to arm themselves. There are now whole stores set up to sell pink-hued firearms and accessories.

By at least one measure, the message seems to be persuasive: 56 percent of female gun owners believe that having a gun makes the home a safer place, according to a recent survey conducted by Marie Claire. (Among women in general, 20 percent hold that view.)

But the available evidence does not support the conclusion that guns offer women increased protection. Myriad studies show that the NRA and its allies grossly misrepresent the actual dangers women face. It is people they know, not strangers, who pose the greatest threat. There is also strong, data-based evidence that shows owning a gun, rather than making women safer, actually puts them at significantly greater risk of violent injury and death................................

[FakeNoose]

1. When a woman has a gun in her home

...she's making it far easier for her children to get their hands on a weapon.

She's also making it easier for the man in her life (husband or boyfriend) to use the gun on her.

Tragedies can happen to any family. Don't increase your chances by bringing a weapon into your house.

[Hoyt]

2. "That stuff happens to other gun owners, not me. I'm a responsible gun owner."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2973731/Three-year-old-Texas-boy-pulls-gun-purse-sitting-shelf-shoots-head.html

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/05/mother-charged-after-young-boy-finds-gun-shoots-himself.html

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2017-04-03/4-year-old-shoots-shelf-with-mothers-gun-mother-arrested


Christ, there are a bunch of stories like this. Gunners don't care, as long as they have their guns close by.