Conceal and carry laws fuel surge in female gun ownership

  Although crime rates are down, retailers here and across country report greater numbers of women are buying firearms.By MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS        The Kansas City StarSix times, she tugged the revolver’s trigger, and six times the bullets went home, puncturing chest, throat and then the gut.On paper, of course.    Danielle Hunt smiled as she left...

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Why Carry a Gun?

Why Carry a Gun? My old grandpa said to me ‘Son, there comes a time in every man’s life when he stops bustin’ knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and usually it’s when he becomes too old to take an butt whoopin.’ I don’t carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed. I don’t carry a gun to scare people. I...

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South Carolina Sheriff says, ‘Women – You Need to Protect Yourself’

By Joshua Rhett Miller;  Published November 01, 2011  | FoxNews.com A South Carolina sheriff is making the extraordinary suggestion that local women arm themselves following the attempted rape of a woman at a local park, saying, “you need to protect yourself.” Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright, the county’s top law enforcement officer since 2005,...

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Name one accessory that grandmothers, moms, girls, wealthy socialites, middle-class females and low-income women might be likely to own — and cherish — all across America.

Pop quiz: Name one accessory that grandmothers, moms, girls, wealthy socialites, middle-class females and low-income women might be likely to own — and cherish — all across America. If you answered “a gun,” you’d be correct. Based on polling research and gun-sale statistics, an estimated 15 million to 20 million women in the United States own their own firearms....

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“The Gun Is Civilization”

By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret.) Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s...

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How many more will die in ‘gun-free’ zones before the media start asking why?

By: Vin Suprynowicz; assistant editorial page editor of the Review-Journal and author of the novel “The Black Arrow.”   Police have identified Robert A. Hawkins, 19, as the assailant who killed eight people with a semi-automatic rifle (not an assault rifle) at the Westroads Mall in Omaha Dec. 5, 2007. Chalk up eight more deaths to “gun...

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