Women From Every State Descend On D.C. To Advocate For Gun Rights

By Tom Knighton

The right to keep and bear arms is a basic human right. Over the years, though, it’s often been thought of as a very masculine thing. Guys love their guns, trucks, and college football down here in the South, after all.

Women? Well, women had their own things.

That’s not the case anymore, and that’s ultimately a good thing. While most homicides are men, a lot of those homicides are people engaged in criminal activity. They’re being killed in either self-defense or by other criminals for various bad-guy reasons. Women, however, are tempting targets for a lot of those criminals. Since, on average, they’re physically weaker than their attackers, they’re at a severe disadvantage if that happens.

Guns even the odds.

However, gun rights for both men and women are under assault in this country. Anti-gunners are still highly focused on guns being a masculine thing, which means women descending on D.C. to talk about gun rights is probably a very good thing for all of us.

The initiative, known as The DC Project, is a nonpartisan, grassroots movement that organizes women to share with lawmakers why they choose to own and carry firearms. Ages ranged from 11 to 76, and included …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms