New book: "Chicks with Guns"

[MagnumDweeb]

Women for better or worse are the cornerstone/lynch pin of our society. Think of Prohibition, Children's Rights not to have to work in dangerous conditions, the Civil Rights ordeal. If you get women on board, if you show that there are sane women out there of all creeds, classes, and backgrounds harmlessly enjoying guns for recreation and self-defense. You start to win the culture war. If we win the culture war. We win our rights, we protect our rights, and we stand to take back more of our rights.

For instance my fiancee is from Massachusetts originally. She didn't know much about guns and was fearful about them. Now she loves guns, she loves my Ruger P345 .45 ACP(and she can actually shoot it fairly well), she wants CWP, and she wishes Florida was an Open Carry state.

Women, gays, blacks, Muslims, Jews, etc.. are our allies. The more we get, the fewer the Bradys and Antis have.

 

[Zebraranger]

Chicks with guns.

 

[Gryffydd]

If we win the culture war. We win our rights, we protect our rights, and we stand to take back more of our rights.

Perfectly put. Thank you.

Seems to me we should be thrilled when "these people" "discover" America. How can that not be a good thing? And how is it not even better when they share their discovery with others?

 

[FROGO207]

Never met a female firearms enthusiast that I did not admire 100%. I spend a good amount of my spare time trying to add to this sector of the population. I just love a female that is a new firearms convert.

 

[parsimonious_instead]

Sam,

I think you really nailed it. I'm from New York and although I hate our gun laws, I love my home state, and I don't like it when fellow New Yorkers bash the so-called "flyover states" but I also don't like how I'm sometimes lumped in with the urban/suburbanites who are practically born with a (D) stamped on their foreheads.

The book blurb sounds patronizing, but if Chicks With Guns is done even 80% as well as Kyle Cassidy's Armed America, I'd call it a success. THAT book is well put together and quite respectful of its subject matter.

Hey... why not compromise? You don't have to buy it, just crack it open at your local library or bookshop and leaf through a few pages.

 

[1858remington]

The only way to make the book better is chicks with guns on motorcycles.

there's nothing sexier than a woman with a gun.

 

[parsimonious_instead]

The only way to make the book better is chicks with guns on motorcycles.

there's nothing sexier than a woman with a gun.

Sometimes, the presentation is a bit cheap and tawdry which I don't like. And the photographer/art directors often don't tell the models how to hold the weapons properly with regard to muzzle and/or trigger discipline.

 

[beatledog7]

I was in a seminar a few years ago (in the DC area) and was teamed for a short time with a 40-ish lady from New York City who did a lot of business on the west coast but who, I kid you not, could not remember ever having seen a live cow! Talk about flyover isolation!

Long story short, I'm sure she has by now.

 

[parsimonious_instead]

I was in a seminar a few years ago (in the DC area) and was teamed for a short time with a 40-ish lady from New York City who did a lot of business on the west coast but who, I kid you not, could not remember ever having seen a live cow! Talk about flyover isolation!

Long story short, I'm sure she has by now.

Many Manhattanites go to Westchester, Putnam and Dutchess counties and beyond to "autumn leaf peep," pick apples or ski in Vermont.

I'm sure they see plenty of farmland and livestock.

 

[feedthehogs]

It seems the current trend for the past 3 or 4 years has been an interest in firearms. Sons of Guns, Top Shot, American Guns and the such has given a broader audience to guns, albeit not always in the best light, and I think this writer really could care a less one way or another but is just trying to cash in on the current trend.

The book seems tastefully done and unless someone finds out the proceeds go to the Brady Center or George Soros or any anti gun lobby, it should make a nice coffee table book and conversation piece.

Capitalism, its whats for breakfast.

 

[FourTeeFive]

Nice to see this done with respect and class. A very positive move to help break the less informed person's perception of gun owners.

 

[Alex23]

Hillbilly your posts actually made me laugh.

The pictures look ok. Newsflash - Women and Kids do shoot. Don't pretend like it's something shocking, it just is not.

But please don't tell me that Women shooting guns is somehow some kind of bizarre event that warrants special treatment. That's the soft despotism of low expectations. Oh, they're women, women are meant to be pretty and bake cakes and make babies right? (says the enlightened journalist). They're not meant to like *guns*

Maybe they are meant to be like that. Mine can do all that and can also drill a round through a fly's ass at 200 meters.

In short I reject as bigoted and stupid the entire premise for this book.

Have a nice day now.

 

[Poper]

(Does this usually involve bright lights in the sky, time loss, a feeling of paralysis, ... probing?)

Well, that was high road.

Poper

 

[timhernandez]

Looks interesting... I was looking at the pics, try to find the female version of the Gun Store Ranger.... all tacti-cooled out... didnt see one.

 

[zfk55]

Real Chicks with real firearms.

It doesn't take a bikini for the real deal.

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/10/chicks-with-guns?pid=1271

 

[AirForceShooter]

It's a thing of beauty.

The woman handgun hunter is really hot

AFS

 

[303tom]

Pretty cool !

 

[hso]

Thanks for the Wired link!

It is reassuring to read that the author is receiving a lot of attention for showing real women who are real shooters instead of vilifying them or depicting them as some arrested development knuckledragger's objectified fantasy.

 

[zfk55]

Thanks for putting it where it belonged!
D'Oh!

 

[mortablunt]

I'll order the book when I get my next paycheck and figure out my budget.