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To: dansangel
The really sad thing is: she's of Olympic potential - she was pulling 1" shot groups at 8 meters with a Ruger .22, and 2.5" groups at 8m with an M1911 on her first afternoon, her performance actually shut down all other activity at the range, everyone there was awed... but, she's Dutch, and when she moved back to Holland she could no longer practice.
Thank you, Socialism.
What a criminal waste of an amazing talent.
23 posted on 04/15/2003 5:38:37 AM PDT by demosthenes the elder (If *I* can afford $5/month to support FR: SO CAN YOU)
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To: demosthenes the elder
Barstool blow-hardism.

To assert that women are more naturally gifted with firearms is to engage in barstool blow-hardism, a patronizing attempt to win female admiration for your barstool "insight." I don't care if you've based your "insight" on having taught 10,000 men and women to shoot. Unless you methodically, carefully, and objectively documented each instance, your opinion is largely worthless--driven and filtered more by emotional considerations, not factual ones.

Until and unless you produce an objective study proving otherwise, the most sound assertion to make is that there is no difference between the marksmanship of men and women firing a particular caliber at a firing range (or in combat; the environment is important). This is a sound inference because good shooting technique is not so dependent on brawn and upper-body strength.

Particular women can be phenomenal shots. I have known a few. But I have known far more men who are phenomenal shots. Does this warrant an inference that men are naturally more gifted than women as marksmen? No, and I wouldn't try to make that claim either.

41 posted on 04/15/2003 6:49:51 AM PDT by Kevin Curry
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To: demosthenes the elder
Thank you, Socialism. What a criminal waste of an amazing talent.

Absolutely. That's why we have to keep working hard to make sure the same thing doesn't happen here.

With so many socialist demonrats in place in our government, it's a very real threat!

50 posted on 04/15/2003 7:24:20 AM PDT by dansangel (America - love it, support it, or LEAVE IT!)
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