Female gun ownership is rising

[branford]

2. Female firearm ownership is indeed rising.

However, if your implication in posting a story about a single female defendant in a firearm-related crime is that the rate of firearm crime or accidents perpetrated by woman is actually increasing, the story certainly makes no such supposition.

Nevertheless, if you care to provide reliable data that supports the conclusion that increasing female firearm ownership is linked to increasing gun crime or accidents, whether involving women or not, or that limiting women's access to firearms will actually lower the relevant rates, I, and I assume many others here on DU, would be more than happy to review your primary sources and engage in an actual discussion. Such a debate might be most illuminating.

Of course, we would then invariably need to discuss the issue of defensive uses of firearms by women, and whether such rate is increasing along with their increasing ownership (as well as the increasing use of firearms by women in sport, hunting and other lawful activities).

In fact, we could easily widen our discussion to include an analysis of the Obama administration's entire CDC-directed study, "Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence," that doesn't exactly provide support to much of the gun control agenda and highlights large rates of defensive firearm use, or even the Obama-administration's National Institute of Justice's, "Summary of Select Firearm Prevention Strategies," which basically demonstrated that virtually all recent gun control proposals are effectively worthless.