Women’s Firearms Training Includes More Than How to Shoot a Gun

By Jenn Jacques

It’s not the firepower, it’s about female empowerment.

More women are stepping up to embrace their right to keep and bear arms and gun ranges and firearms instructors are hoping to teach them more than just how to shoot and carry a gun. Personal safety advocate Jody Salerno of Upper St. Clair, PA, whose impressive credentials include National Rifle Association-certified firearms instructor, range officer, and spokeswoman for the Girl and a Gun Shooting League, aims to arm her female students with more than just an understanding of firearms.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports:

“Knowing they can shoot safely and accurately is part of it,” Jody said. “But having some training in situational awareness, being comfortable having their firearm with them, knowing how to defend themselves, I think, gives women a sense of confidence and self-assuredness that they carry with them all the time.”

“Empowering women is my passion. We talk about different motivations for personal security [and] situational awareness. Realtors who are in empty houses with strangers need to think about tactical positioning. College kids walking around with earbuds and a cell phone not paying attention have no idea they’re being [observed] — the way they walk, their …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms