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Gunloons Pretend Gun Ownership Up Among Women

Posted on the 05 August 2013 by Mikeb302000
So, I'm reading MikeB's excellent post re the TTAG Survey and I'm seeing the usual gunloon excuse for science and mathematics as to why gunloons believe gun ownership among women is waaay up:

Gunloons Pretend Gun Ownership Up Among Women

What women wouldn't wish to be portrayed like this?


We're all lying when we talk about the increasing number of women in the gun owning community. I'm lying when I describe how over the past few years, half of the women at my church went out and got carry permits. I'm lying about the black, female law students that asked me to teach them to shoot, and then became gun owners. I'm lying about the increasing number of women I see as customers at gun shows instead of as uninterested companions.
Nice touch, note how gun ownership is increasing among black, educated, church-going women. Of course, Tennessean is just making stuff up which is a hallmark of gunloon scholarship.
Once more, let's go to the hard science.
The country’s changing demographics may also play a role. While the rate of gun ownership among women has remained relatively constant over the years at about 10 percent, which is less than one-third of the rate among men today, more women are heading households without men, another possible contributor to the decline in household gun ownership. Women living in households where there were guns that were not their own declined to a fifth in 2012 down from a third in 1980.

As much as gunloons wish to portray gun ownership asexploding among women--it's simply untrue.

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