{"id":115,"date":"2002-05-25T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-25T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=115"},"modified":"2010-06-15T01:32:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T06:32:49","slug":"women-with-guns-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"Women With Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Rummel <a href=\"http:\/\/handbasket.blogspot.com\/2002_05_12_handbasket_archive.html#76467847\" asks<\/a> why men keep teaching women to shoot, despite the fact that they tend to outdo us at this manly pursuit.<\/a><\/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 have a 2:1 advantage in upper-body strength over women.   Most criminal assailants are men.  While we Y-chromosome types have a fair chance of fighting the average assailant off without technological help, women do not.  I teach women to shoot on the principle that the only good rapist is a dead one.<\/p>\n<p>Two: A pretty woman with a gun in her hand is way sexier than one without.  Why this is I don&#8217;t know, but I do know that I am far from the only male with this reaction.  There was that legendary video of bikini-clad models firing automatic weapons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Which reason is more important?  Let&#8217;s just observe that all  interesting behavior is overdetermined and leave it at that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Rummel<\/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-115","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\/115","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=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}