The Trace would have us believe that the rise in female gun ownership is a myth.
(Editor’s note:This article was syndicated with the permission of Larry Keane, the author of the piece. Keane is the senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.)
Ordinarily, we do not respond to quasi-journalistic electronic emanations from The Trace, which, as we have previously noted, is the wholly owned propaganda megaphone of the Michael Bloomberg-funded anti-gun politburo of organizations. Be assured, we do not plan to make this a regular practice.
However, after we finally stopped laughing at the headline and the prose that followed, we decided that a response was warranted to “The Myth of the Rise in Female Gun Ownership.” Here’s why. It is a staple of gun control politics to work to diminish both the size and the ever increasing diversity of the firearm-owning American citizenry. The Trace provides just the latest example.
Their tactic is transparent and their preferred go-to source is the same General Social Survey that, as we pointed out last, year chronically, undercounts guns owners due to its own methodological limitations in contradiction to other research sources from Gallup polls to FBI background checks to NSSF-commissioned studies. All provide evidence that law-abiding Americans are embracing gun ownership at a much higher rate than the suspect GSS indicates.
But that wouldn’t serve the collective political agenda of the Bloomberg groups, would it? So for good measure the Trace also assails NSSF’s “Women Gun Owners: Purchasing Perceptions and Participation,” for citing a report asking firearms retailers to whom they are selling. Surprise, there are more women coming in as customers.
So, we would like to thank The Trace for linking to our report and hope that it gets a wider reading as a result, because if the currently confirmation biased can get beyond their confirmed biases they may learn some inconvenient truths. Whether they can or can’t, or will or won’t, however, we will stand by the well-explained findings in our report that The Trace so clearly cannot and will not accept.
Finally, in addition to having to believe a flawed data source and attacking NSSF for a survey with clear and generally accepted methodology but unwanted results, The Trace also asks its readers to discount CBS News, Fox News, Ad Age and dozens of local reporters nationwide (collectively, a “credulous press”) who have actually gone to firearms retailers and ranges to report that they see evidence of more and more women buying guns and taking up target shooting as a recreational activity.
In effect, The Trace is asking anyone who will actually do the legwork, or the research, the famous Marx Brothers question from the movie “Duck Soup” when Chico disguised as Groucho asks, “Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
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Editor’s note part II: I have to agree with Larry. The Internet is filled with reports talking about the rise in female gun ownership. Just Google it or search it on Youtube and you’ll find a bunch of videos like the one below:
Bloomberg is nothing more than a Lying P.O.S. with a God complex, he actually thinks that he has the God-given right to tell people what to eat, drink, and what they should do about gun-control even when he knows what he is saying is a total LIE, he’s just as full of shit as the Magazines and papers he puts out. Time to boycott all of his BS publications put him out of business.
Let’s get this out of the way: it’s not a clip, it’s a magazine! Whatever, back to the real story. Hoorah for all the women gun owners. Remember when half the households had a revolver in the kitchen drawer because they were under $10 and no paperwork involved. Noone ever thought of blaming the guns for crimes then. Let’s return to the times of common sense and our American heritage.