Guns trump women in political correctness

Isn’t it odd that really successful women —Margaret Thatcher comes to mind—are NOT acclaimed by feminists if they are conservative? It shows that the real agenda of feminists is only incidentally pro-women. It is really just another flavour of Leftism. It uses women. It does not champion them.

The pistol-packing grandma about to be inducted into the Florida Women’s Hall of Fame is the most controversial appointment since its inception 22 years ago. Why? Because Marion Hammer, a squat senior citizen with a soft Southern twang, was the first — and only — female president of the National Rifle Association.

Gun control advocates and women’s rights groups are outraged at the selection of Hammer, one of three women Gov. Jeb Bush tapped this year to join writer Zora Neale Hurston, tennis star Chris Evert, former state Education Commissioner Betty Castor and Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings among others “who have made significant improvement of life for women and for all citizens of Florida,” according to the Hall of Fame’s Web site.

Hammer, who said she never tells anyone how many guns she owns because “it’s nobody’s business,” remains nonplussed. “Isn’t that a hoot?” she chuckled when told that the National Organization for Women and others plan to protest her nomination on Monday, the day before the induction ceremony takes place in the Capitol. “Women who are out there trying to promote advancement for women, protesting the recognition of a woman who has broken many glass ceilings,” Hammer said. “That’s just a hoot.”

But women’s rights proponents aren’t laughing, and neither are gun control activists who call her a “threat to public safety.” “Marion Hammer has been a strident advocate for weapons that kill and maim, even assault weapons,” said Linda Miklowitz, the outgoing president of the Florida chapter of NOW. “She’s an embarrassment to the Women’s Hall of Fame.” Breaking glass ceilings isn’t enough, Miklowitz said, “if it’s for negative reasons.”

Hammer is a Tallahassee lobbyist who works for the NRA and the Unified Sportsmen of Florida. She also lobbies pro bono for children with learning disabilities, the result of her experiences with her grandson who has severe dyslexia, and she was appointed by former Senate President John McKay to sit on a task force for scholarships for disabled children task…

Attorney General Charlie Crist, who is expected to run for governor in 2006, nominated Hammer and said he doesn’t see what all the fuss is all about. “She might be controversial to some people, but not to me,” Crist said, adding she is a “freedom fighter who has expanded the freedoms” of Floridians by her advocacy for the Second Amendment. The women who selected Hammer and nine others out of about 80 nominations said Hammer’s political philosophy did not enter into their decision…

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Posted by jonjayray on Monday, March 14, 2005 at 04:00 AM in Feminism
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Posted by Svigor on March 14, 2005, 05:45 PM | #

Like blacks, feminists are consistent useful idiots for Leftism.

“Feminists” put the lie to everything they say with their support of gun control; there is nothing more empowering and liberating than a firearm. There is no greater deterrent to predatory male sexuality than the handgun.

John you are of course correct that Leftists show with this hierarchy (gun control > women) that they ultimately don’t give a rat’s hairy one about women. These consistent inconsistencies are the key to understanding the true aims of any ideology, and Leftism is rife with them.

I think feminists are probably the group least attached to Leftism, and could be splintered off with the least effort.

Posted by Robert Sealey on March 15, 2005, 07:16 PM | #

This article gives a useful insight into the mentality of the Left. Their three favorite groups are women, ethnic minorities and gays and there is little doubt all three would benefit from the wider availability of firearms for self-defense.

I’ve not heard of any empirical studies on this, but it seems safe to assume a would-be rapist would have his ardor cooled somewhat should he find himself peering up the barrel of a loaded .357 magnum revolver. Happily, some women seem to be aware of this: http://www.2asisters.org/ In the January/February 2005 issue of American Handgunner magazine, the journalist John Connor describes how his wife put to flight some extremely dubious characters simply by showing the concealed handgun she was legally entitled to carry. Elsewhere, the home page of the Pink Pistols (http://www.pinkpistols.org) puts it succinctly: “Armed Gays Don’t Get Bashed”. And would James Byrd – a black man dragged to his death behind a pick-up truck by white supremacists in Texas in 1998 – have suffered such a horrific death had he availed himself of the right, available to all Texas residents, to carry a gun.

Indeed, gun control’s dirty little secret is much of it is racially-motivated. In the United States the first gun laws were passed in the early nineteenth century by the southern states, where there were concerns about slaves getting hold of firearms and rebelling. For those interested, there’s lots more here. (http://www.guncite.com/journals/cd-reg.html)

However, all of the above is trumped by the supreme belief of the left: that the Government can solve all our problems. They will doubtless concede the vast majority of gun-owners are law-abiding and a threat to no-one. But they will also argue people should just give-up their guns and trust their security to the police and other agencies of the State.

This completely ignores the fact that some of the most violent places in the United States have the toughest gun laws. DC and Chicago vie with each other to be the murder capital of the US, but both places banned handguns over twenty years ago. In the United Kingdom, the private possession of handguns was banned in 1998 and rifles and shotguns are both extremely heavily regulated. The government there boasts Britain has some of the toughest gun laws in the world. Unfortunately, this has not stopped an epidemic of gun violence. In one case, a gang of youths sprayed a group of rivals with a machine gun.

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