{"id":114,"date":"2002-05-25T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-25T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=114"},"modified":"2002-05-25T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-25T13:08:00","slug":"women-with-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Women With Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Rummel<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/handbasket.blogspot.com\/2002_05_12_handbasket_archive.html#76467847\"><br \/>\nasks<\/a> why men keep teaching women to shoot, despite the fact<br \/>\nthat they tend to outdo us at this manly pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>As a man who makes something of a hobby of teaching woman to shoot, I can answer in two ways:<\/p>\n<p>One: Women need to learn to shoot more than men do.  Men<br \/>\nhave a 2:1 advantage in upper-body strength over women.   Most<br \/>\ncriminal assailants are men.  While we Y-chromosome types have a fair<br \/>\nchance of fighting the average assailant off without technological help,<br \/>\nwomen do not.  I teach women to shoot on the principle that the<br \/>\nonly good rapist is a dead one.<\/p>\n<p>Two: A pretty woman with a gun in her hand is way sexier than<br \/>\none without.  Why this is I don&#8217;t know, but I do know that I am far<br \/>\nfrom the only male with this reaction.  There was that legendary video<br \/>\nof bikini-clad models firing automatic weapons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Which reason is more important?  Let&#8217;s just observe that all<br \/>\ninteresting behavior is overdetermined and leave it at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Rummel asks why men keep teaching women to shoot, despite the fact that they tend to outdo us at this manly pursuit. As a man who makes something of a hobby of teaching woman to shoot, I can answer in two ways: One: Women need to learn to shoot more than men do. Men&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=114\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Women With Guns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}