More Women in Shooting Sports

The numbers are increasing...

It's not just women in Colorado outdoors that are enjoying shooting sports! The Denver Post reported, "Greater numbers of women join shooting, hunting ranks..." For more on this, read the numerous links by searching the topic on http://www.google/. "It's fun", and there are classes taught by police investigators, detectives, and other experience people. One of the more frequent posts on any related forum is the husband or wife that has not accepted, or is afraid of firearms.

Why would women be turned off to the subject?

Could this be driven by the media or Hollywood? This is people not educating children about firearms, but just scaring them by telling them guns are bad? Let's see, children should be taught fear by their parents rather than learning to think for themselves? Try to get around that one, if you're a parent.

Have you met a teenage girl/boy competition shooter? Ever attended a shooting clinic for kids? There's an example of adults working with our youth. In that venue, our children learn are taught while practicing safety, and responsibility of firearms (while being around a few of the millions of guns floating around our population.)

Our experience or education shape our own thoughts and actions, yes! Let's hope our friends aren't using fear to teach kids anything about guns or loud barking dogs. Both are worthy of understanding and honest approach (or avoidance). Be afraid if you have to, however, please don't instill the same in others that you care about...