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To: derllak; rintense; JillValentine

I haven't seen any taunting. How about y'all?


28 posted on 08/13/2006 12:37:58 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

Nope. If anything, guys fawn over chicks with guns.


29 posted on 08/13/2006 12:45:45 PM PDT by rintense
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To: Larry Lucido

I haven't either1 I think it's great that more women are getting serious about gun ownership and I don't think most men are shallow enough to feel threatened by this.


31 posted on 08/13/2006 1:19:03 PM PDT by derllak
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To: Larry Lucido
I haven't seen any taunting. How about y'all?

I used to take my daughter to the county range after she became old enough to be allowed to shoot there. No one taunted her as best I can remember, but even if they had I think the taunts would have stopped when they saw the tight little groups she could shoot offhand at 25 yards with her .38 revolver.

I started teaching her and her brother to shoot in a rural field near our home with a .22 revolver and a .22 rifle when she was about 10 years old and he was about 5 or 6. Later on she moved up to shooting my .45 revolver and a 20 gauge pump shotgun. Now she's 45 YO and can shoot better than me or her brother any day of the week with any type of firearm that any of us own. It's no big deal to shoot better than me and my 69 YO eyes, but there's nothing wrong with my son's eyesight and she can outshoot him as well.

Now I have a 9 YO grand-daughter who shoots a .22 pistol, and a 4 YO grand-son who can hardly wait to get started. My g-grandfather taught my grandfather to shoot with a muzzle loading rifle his father brought home from the War Between the States, he taught my father, my father taught me, and I taught my kids. Now it's their turn to teach and I'm loving watching them do it. I just wish I had the old muzzle loader to hang over the fireplace, but I guess it was turned into scrap iron many decades ago.

Please excuse my rambling on, that's just something us old proud grandpas are prone to do ya know.

33 posted on 08/13/2006 1:37:13 PM PDT by epow
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To: Larry Lucido

Taunting? At the range? Never. Everyone there is always polite and courteous.

Now if you're talking about taunting online, that's a different story. Although most conservative men are intelligent and admire women with guns, there are a few serious jerks out there. I had an exchange with one right here on FR a few days ago, in fact.


38 posted on 08/13/2006 3:32:38 PM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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