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Glad you're here. We need more women.
I'm plotting a female take over of the world but it's slow going because
the boys have all the guns. -- Barbara, on a firearms web forum
If you're going to dry fire, you should always have on hand a can of paint
the same color as the wall, and some spackle. -- Jim Cirillo
"Only fast women shoot."
~ Queen Victoria
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Aim at a high mark and you will hit it. No, not the first time, nor the
second and maybe not the third. But keep on aiming and keep on shooting
for only practice will make you perfect. Finally, you'll hit the Bull's-Eye
of Success. ~ Ann Phoebe
Mosey (Annie Oakley)
I've written a fair amount on firearms, and I'm usually careful to point
out that a gun is morally neutral, as are knives, swords, sticks, stones,
etc. How a person uses an object gives it a moral value for that act,
and that act alone. An object just is. --
Sunni Maravillosa
As a card-carrying member of the liberal media, producing this piece was
an eye opening experience. I have to admit that I saw guns as inherently
evil, violence begets violence, and so on. I have learned, however, that
in trained hands, just the presence of a gun can be a real 'man stopper.'
I am sorry that women have had to resort to this, but wishing it wasn't
so won't make it any safer out there. -- Jill Feldstein
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure. -- Marianne Williamson
Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything
but human. -- Robin Morgan
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into
powerlessness. -- Erica Jong
Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised.
There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man
would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too. --Will Rogers
Best quote I ever heard was from my wife when I presented her with a brand
new Beretta Tomcat. She looked it over and then said, "I don't want
this. The hole in the end is not big enough. I want one with a big hole
in the end." -- grampster on
The High Road
I'm five foot two. Hunnert and twenty pounds. Carried a Colt 1991A1 without
anyone but my hubbie knowing it was there. The Mother of invention may
be necessity, but the Grandmama of concealed carry is a good imagination
and sufficiently baggy clothing. – Elizabeth Petersen on
www.thefiringline.com
I have always believed that a true gentleman provides covering fire while
a lady is reloading. –
Tamara
Lincoln Was Right
You may hit some of your targets most of the time
And hit most of your targets some of the time
But you can’t hit all of your targets every time all of the time.
No matter how great your skill and how hard you try,
Sooner or later you’ll let one go by.
~ poem written by Ad Topperwein
for his wife, Plinky Topperwein
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing
to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must do
the thing which you think you cannot do. ~
Eleanor Roosevelt
And the little girl had approached the bed no nearer than thirty feet
when she pulled out a pistol and shot the wolf dead; for even in a cap
and nightgown a wolf looks no more like your grandmother than Calvin Coolidge
looks like the Metro-Goldwyn lion. Moral: Little girls are not so easy
to fool nowadays as they used to be. -- James Thurber
So the man (we are not making this up) shot the washer five times with
a .25-caliber revolver. We know what you're thinking. You're thinking:
''What a MORON! Bullets that small are only going to annoy a major appliance,
possibly causing it to go berserk and threaten innocent people!'' Good
point. We ourselves have seen a washing machine, with no provocation,
shake its way violently halfway across a room. – Dave Barry
Nearly every woman I've interviewed says finding a suitable holster falls
somewhere between challenging and impossible. --
Gila Hayes
There's nothing wrong with shooting so long as the right people get shot.
-- Dirty Harry Calahan
"God intended woman to be outside as well as men, and they do not
know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house with
a novel."
~ Annie Oakley
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There are precious few horror films that couldn't be cut well short by
a single loaded 12 ga and someone with the sense to use it. -- K.R. Murphy
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether
you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are,
you aren't. -- Margaret Thatcher
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is
the tigress and lioness in you -- which tends to defend when attacked.
-- Margaret Thatcher
The best protection any woman can have . . . is courage. -- Elizabeth
Cady Stanton
It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which
end to poke into the enemy. -- Terry Pratchett
As we used to teach in the spook business, carry a 25 if it makes you
feel good, but do not ever load it. If you load it you may shoot it. If
you shoot it you may hit somebody, and if you hit somebody - and he finds
out about it - he may be very angry with you. --
Jeff Cooper
Is there anything wrong with a woman preferring the dignity of an armed
citizen? I don't like to be coddled and I don't like to be treated like
a minor child. So I waive immunity and claim my right -- I go armed. --
"Longcourt Phyllis" in Beyond This Horizon by Robert Heinlein
A gun isn't supposed to be comfortable; it's supposed to be comforting.
-- Clint Smith
Well, it's true. I am fast. But I also can't hit shit, especially
when I'm shooting against real people. So I need all the bullets I can
get. -- "Bret Maverick" (James Garner)
We hear of an unfortunate woman who, during an nighttime asthma attack,
confused the small handgun she kept under her pillow with an asthma inhaler
and proceeded to relieve her symptoms. It was not a fatal mistake, partly
because she used a .25 ACP, which everyone knows is not sufficient to
clear sinuses. --
Jeff Cooper
It is, in fact, possible to be politically progressive and vigorously
pro-gun, just as it is possible to be politically conservative and determinedly
pro-choice. Yet most people, whether scholars or laypersons, like to equate
gun owning with conservatism, and feminism with liberalism. The realities
are far more complex. Gun owners, male and female, represent an array
of political and social perspectives. So, of course, do feminists. --
Mary Zeiss Stange and Carol K. Oyster
My goal is to be a surprisingly aggressive
little old lady. – Diane Walls
Don't go stupid places. Don't hang out with stupid people. Don't do stupid
things. -- John Farnam
If I won't protect myself, what right do I have to expect another
person to risk his or her life for mine? --
Sunni Maravillosa
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man,
but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. -- Susan
B. Anthony
Shooting someone intimidates him. The better you shoot him the more he
is intimidated. – Walt Rauch
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
-- Lois Wyse
Powerlessness and silence go together. -- Margaret Atwood
Who's paranoid: the person who wants to be able to defend himself against
the few bad apples in society, or the person who wants to render everybody
harmless? -- Marko Kloos
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman
as an anomaly. -- Margaret Atwood
And always remember: It's not the victim's fault. If you're attacked,
it may be important for your future self protection to figure out what
-- if anything -- you could have done to prevent it, but even if you find
something you could have done better, the attack was not your fault. --
Nancy Jane Moore
Some of life's positive lessons are not learned in positive ways. – Steve
Chaney
Mr. Jones, has it ever occurred to you, the world being what it is, that
women sometimes prefer not to appear too bright? -- "Ellie," in Starman
Jones by Robert Heinlein
I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a
friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State,
to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose
I would know how to use the gun. ~
Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which
is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit
and abolish women? – Martin Luther
The pen may be stronger than the sword... but I'd rather have a sword
in a dark alley. -- Andrew Warnick
Waiting around for your prince is chancy -- he might not ever show up.
And even if he does, he might not be able to protect you. Even worse,
the guy who can do the best job of taking care of you may not be the one
who has your heart. Learn to take care of yourself. Then you can choose
your prince on your own terms -- or choose to do without one at all. --
Nancy Jane Moore
The vote, I thought, means nothing to women.
We should be armed. -- Edna O'Brien
My own gun ownership seems matter-of-fact to me, as I am sure it does
to most women. Do we marvel that we own and operate cars? Blenders? Roth
IRAs? Of course not! -- Peggy Tartaro
Women who own firearms come in all shapes and sizes, ages, and backgrounds.
With the exception of those who grew up in active gun-owning families...
it takes considerable effort to make the decision to be a gun owner, to
acquire a firearm and learn to use it. Most of these women tell me that
the hard part was not to learn to hold the gun, or to load it, fire it,
or even clean it, but do decide to do all those things. Having made the
decision, they are often left bewildered by the images of themselves in
popular culture. -- Peggy Tartaro
I'm secure enough in my self-esteem that I know I cannot handle a 150-pound
guy coming at me, but I can handle a firearm to keep that man away from
me. -- Maria Heil
A criminal attack is always the fault of the attacker. The purpose of
self defense is to limit your vulnerability to criminals, not to make
you responsible for their bad actions. --
Nancy Jane Moore
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I am a rape survivor, and a rape attempt survivor. The
difference is, the second time, I had a gun.
-- Evelyn Logan
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The most dangerous action a woman can take when faced with a criminal
is to resist with her fists: That tends to annoy violent criminals, and
the woman will very likely be seriously injured. But a woman who takes
the advice of Handgun Control Inc. and passively submits is 2.5 times
more likely to be injured than a woman who resists with a gun. So if you
don't want to lie back and enjoy it, get a gun. -- Ann Coulter
Let us, for a moment, take the sex-education [proponents] at their word:
If you teach a child how to use a condom, you're promoting safety -- not
usage. why, then, doesn't the same logic apply to guns? -- Michelle Malkin
We live in a world where more and more women are unaccompanied at odd
hours, or they are vulnerable in dangerous places — a world where restraining
orders are often ineffective and the police cannot be counted upon to
arrive in time, if at all. In such a world, women must be able to protect
themselves. In terms of both deterrence and lethal force, guns are among
the most effective tools available for self-defense. -- Mary Zeiss Stange,
"Guns, like abortion, are a matter of choice", posted 5/5/04
The most important factor affecting how children deal with guns is how
they are taught about them. A study of 675 Rochester, New York ninth and
tenth graders contrasted children who had been socialized into gun use
by their family with children who had been socialized into gun use by
peers. For the children whose families had taught them about lawful gun
use, the children were at no greater risk of becoming involved in crime,
gangs, or drugs than children with no exposure to guns. But the children
who were taught about guns by their peers were at high risk of all types
of crime and improper behavior, including gun crime. -- Alan J. Lizotte
& James M. Tesoriero, "Patterns of Adolescent Firearms Ownership and Use,"
(Albany: Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, State University
of New York, 1991), Rochester Youth Development Study, Working Paper no.
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The thing to remember about women is that they’re
a lot smarter than men and they don’t play fair. -- Clint Eastwood
Without wanting to get into other areas, let's acknowledge that the most
people who believee that a 3- or 5-day national waiting period for firearms
purchases is perfectly reasonable also oppose a 24-hour waiting period
for abortions as a blatantly unconstitutional infringement of a constitutional
right. The same people who support the absolute discretion of unelected
officials to prevent an individual from purchasing, owning or carrying
a firearm, knowing that the poor, women, members of racial and ethnic
minority groups, and those holding unpopular political opinions are much
more likely to denied than are others, also tend to support judicial intervention
to assure that the free market doesn't produce inferior educational or
economic outcomes for these same people. The same people who proudly quote
Martin Luther King, Jr, in asserting that "a right delayed is a right
denied," claim that waiting periods, one a month limits and other such
laws are not an infringement on the right to keep and bear arms (even
though they may deny such a right exists), but merely "reasonable" regulation.
-- Ken Maurer
Self defense is the last frontier of feminism. And it is the
solution -- if one truly exists -- to rape and other forms of violence
against women. Politicizing women's pain has been a costly diversion from
the hard work that is necessary to make women safe. -- Wendy McElroy
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This above all, to refuse to be a victim.
-- Margaret Atwood
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There is no argument: women should be able to walk down streets alone
at night and be safe. Just as they should be able leave their apartments
and car doors unlocked. Yet women who bolt their doors every night often
refuse to learn self-defense because they don't believe they should have
to. Because they should be able to feel safe, they refuse to take steps
that would so dramatically acknowledge how unsafe they truly are. -- Wendy
McElroy
While on the one hand, through current literature women are imbued with
independence, equality, and power, on the other hand, no credence is ever
given to the very real fact that women are, and always will be, physically
unequal to men and therefore physically vulnerable...the fact is that
even after being granted all the rights which she so richly deserves,
a woman still has a woman's anatomy. -- Carolyn J. Hursch in The Trouble
with Rape
Somewhere in America today, a woman is going to operate a doorknob, lock
a deadbolt, operate an alarm remote, and operate a door handle. She will
then operate an ignition switch and a seatbelt latch, manipulate clutch
and gas and brake pedals while simultaneously rowing a gear selector and
working a turn indicator switch. Arriving at her destination, she will
manipulate all these controls again in reverse order, walk into the gun
store, and be told by some bright spark with a barely-room-temperature
IQ: "These automatic pistols have too many complicated controls on 'em,
honey; whatchoo need's a revolver." --
Tamara