Posted April 25, 2016 12:10 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

NRA's Women on Target Program
NRA’s Women on Target Program
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “Was will das Weib?” That’s how Sigmund Freud put the question “What does woman want?” There may still be other wants mysterious to man, but the answer is growing clearer, year by year within the world of firearms, shooting sports and self-defense.

Women want what everyone needs: safety and security, love and fellowship, and self-realization.

(See What ‘Right to Feel Safe’?) Historically, their identities have emphasized social and relational roles above self-realization, with the presumption that their safety and security came under the protection of men (and usually from other men).

Especially during the past 100 years, we’ve seen the emancipation of women from these limited expectations. Feminism, in its best sense, has liberated women from their position as sheltered homemakers to be able to participate in any aspect of the world they choose.

How sad then that women can care about their own and their families’ safety but feel uncomfortable taking on the role of defenders themselves.

But that is changing, just as it has for Americans in general during the last quarter century, as …Read the Rest

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