{"id":5716,"date":"2009-10-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2009-10-28T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T14:42:10","slug":"real-feminism-real-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5716","title":{"rendered":"Real Feminism, Real Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing tells a would-be rapist “reconsider your ways” like blowing his head off.<\/p>\n

And in and around Chicago – where generations of gun control have led to the biggest criminal quagmire in America – women are increasingly saying “baloney<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

Local gun shop owners say they’re seeing an increase in the number of women shoppers right now. The reasons, they say, are many, including the downturn in the economy and violence on the street.<\/p>\n

According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, about 48 percent of people taking their first handgun seminars this year happen to be women. CBS 2’s Pamela Jones reports on the growing trend.<\/p>\n

“It’s very dangerous out there. I mean, there’s people getting robbed here and there,” said Josie Santiago. “It’s just for protection.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s one of the reasons that I’m not worried about gun control making a big comeback, no matter what <\/em>the President really believes on the subject; when women start shooting as enthusiastically as guys do, then gun control is doomed on at least a national level.<\/p>\n

The city of Chicago itself?\u00a0 Well, that might take some work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing tells a would-be rapist “reconsider your ways” like blowing his head off. And in and around Chicago – where generations of gun control have led to the biggest criminal quagmire in America – women are increasingly saying “baloney“: Local gun shop owners say they’re seeing an increase in the number of women shoppers right […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5720,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions\/5720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}