YOU GO, GIRL: More Than the âAssault Weaponsâ SCOTUS Case, THIS is What Terrifies the Gun Control Industry Most of All.
âIn recent years, women made up almost half of all new gun owners, a striking shift from the historical norm, when women accounted for about 24 percent of gun owners,â Rosanna Smart and Andrew R. Morral of the RAND Corporation recently wrote. âAfter more than a decade of stable gun ownership, womenâs ownership rose starkly between 2018 and 2021, going from 10 percent of adult women owning guns in 2018 to 15 percent in 2021, then up again slightly to 16 percent by 2024.â
They add that the big surge in womenâs gun ownership has occurred since 2018 and, almost without exception, is seen across the board without regard to race, age, income, party identification, or education. Men, too, have bought guns amidst record firearms sales boosted by the chaos of 2020, though not to the same transformative extent as women. As broad demand for the means of self-defense has put the lie to the already overstated argument that gun ownership was a passing fixation of rural white men, women have rushed to take advantage of the empowering technology.
Firearms are the great equalizer.