The latest Gallup Poll on guns says that 47 percent of Americans now have guns, more than any time since 1993, and women are buying in increasing numbers. Twenty-three percent of women report that they are gun owners, that is up from 13 percent in 2005.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/02/06/seen-at-11-new-research-shows-gun-purchases-by-women-on-the-rise/
That is an impressive statistic. Not all American women have bought the cool aide of ‘government is a woman's friend and protector from bad patriarchal white men’ This statistic is an indication of the widening social cleavages in the US. The Mahdi was elected and reelected by blacks, Hispanics , people under 30 and single women. Each of these groups are not invested in the nation but feel entitled or expect a grievance payoff or have been corrupted by the poisonous society. What is emerging really is a struggle between traditional and mostly white middle class America and the parasites.
And yet, Obama gets Elected and Reelected while the Democrats keep control of the Senate and whittle down the Republican Majority in the House.