If guns were stylish again?

As long as they were not allowed to have any ammo on that certain time of the month, I would be fine with it.

Guns would be available in a wider range of colours but mostly pink.

How about social aspects?
Would women start taking on an arrogant attitude?
How would businesses change?
Would men become obsequient?
Would crime increase, or decrease?

I think it would be fine. I’ve seen times when traditional male/female roles were blurred. Example: A Jimmy Buffet concert. EVERYONE is walking around smoking cigars. Not something you typically see women doing, but there they were…old, young, married, single, men and women. Outside of seeming a bit new and unique, you quickly got used to seeing it. Now, are you talking about ONLY women carrying guns? Or it becoming a style for them to carry?

A society in which only women are allowed to tote guns? Men, plain old vanilla white men drive and dominate gun sales. It would be like restricting the ownership of lingerie exclusively to men.

Well, that would bring about a change then, wouldn’t it? Would men still be in the business of selling guns if only women carried them? Of course men could still hunt. That aspect of ownership would not change.

I find that I must absolutely agree with @SQUEEKY2 .

Lots of women do carry, in my state. I have sold guns, and fitness gear before. I found it interesting that almost all female MMA gear, is pink, or a variation of pink. But almost every woman that I helped find gloves, or wristwrap, or whatever hated the pink stuff.

In my gun department, we had multiple guns with pink camouflage, or pink grips. Again, women didn’t like them. We actually sold most pink camo guns to males. Most often reason given was that you wouldn’t lose your gun if you sat it down in the woods. Deer are color blind, so a pink camo still works on them.

In regards to women carrying guns.

I’m not a big fan. Statistics show females are reluctant to kill, even if being attacked. Men simply overpower them, and take their guns. This is my main reason for not supporting teachers being armed.

It’s also why mace is so popular, and recommended for females.

Carrying a gun, in the open, is a very serious, and dangerous thing to do. You are essentially adding the possibility of making every scenario exponentially more dangerous. You raise the stakes in any defense situation, to life or death for anyone involved.

I always carried a knife as a teenager (still do.) One night, I was at a party in a house I’d never been to. A lot of people were coming and going. A car pulled up, and two guys got out. One of them immediately pulled out a knife and threatened me. I pulled out my knife, and threatened them back. Now… As the situation was unfolding, I realized that I had turned a bad situation into a possible knife fight. I was 19 years old, and about to fight two much older/harder men, and one of them had a knife. My stupid pulling out of my knife escalated things to a sort of arms race. A friend of mine pulled a gun, and we all just barely avoided someone getting killed…

I never pulled my knife in a bad situation again, and I never carried any weapons as a bouncer, although I could have. I learned that weapons just make things worse. I also realize that almost anything around me, can be used as a weapon. I kept a big metal chair by the door of my venues. If someone pulled a knife, I pulled my chair. It saved my ass plenty, and got the job done.

Safety.

My father has two very small.pistols. he is usually carrying one in public. I can’ttell you how many times we found one in the dryer… They are so small that he frequently loses them. Once, a friend of mine saw one on the counter and picked it up when we were kids. He thought it was a novelty lighter. He almost discharged it, trying to “light” it.

Guns everywhere is a bad idea. Regardless of what gender the owners are…

The firing of a hidden zip gun would give a whole new meaning to vaginal discharge.

How about if women are allowed to wear concealed stun devices such that if any unwanted groping occurs, the masher finds himself sprawled on the floor?

If a society really wanted to prevent violence by arming people, it seems to me like a good idea to restrict that to women, due to the lack of pointless-aggression-fueling testosterone etc.

I’d certainly be more interested in women’s fashion accessories if they were weapons rather than shoes and purses.

Welcome to North Carolina, when I go to the supermarket two out of five times there is someone with an open carry on their hip. I know of many many people that have conceal carry permits, they almost always have a gun on their person.

Glock and Ruger are favorites.

@Willie, are these carriers all women?

Women did pack heat back in the day. You had your rough and tumble types who carried a rifle, or strapped on a shooter like men, but ladies in ribbons and lace carried muff pistols. Those were fancy, and designed specifically to appeal to ladies.

Both men and women. Most of the conceal carries are women. One hss a Glock 380 pocket pistol, owner is a “salt and pepper haired” retired school teacher. I know because sometimes travel together for volunteer project in town, she has a lock box for the gun when we go into restricted zones and buildings.

Does it make you feel nervous, or safer?
Do you feel she would use it in an emergency, or might it be more of a security blanket for her?
I am interested in hearing more of your take on this.

I’m afraid of getting killed by “friendly fire” because some of the gun owners are bozos.
And they would start shooting without having a real target, “just popping caps!”

My friend has scored in the 90’s at the practice range and is level headed !

It’s fairly common in my area to carry, kind of rural area. Seems to be fine. Women seem no different to me and you’d never know unless it got to the point you messed with these ladies.

One drives in the dark overnights in a dangerous area and hasnt fired. These are usually the kind of strong women predators avoid anyway.

@across Its always been this way in rural America, most of us learned gun safety and how to shoot before age 10. So no more or less safe now than 20 years ago.

I was 10 when a representative from the NRA came to my school and did a long tutorial. He covered a lot of information, and at the end, we all received membership cards.
He couldn’t allow us to fire any weapons in the gymnasium, but he brought a straw target and some bows, also covering how to hold and fire those. I was picked to “give it a shot.” BULLSEYE!
Lots of the boys I knew were hunting before then. My cousins did. There were ten siblings. Hunting and fishing were pretty important to them.

I think if there were an open carry law, for women only, it would change the social dynamic dramatically.
Just look above, where fear was expressed over carrying during “that time”.
Would women show greater restraint than men have? Would hormones lead to the occasional bloodbath?
How about during labor? “I said give me an epidural, NOW!”

It is something we can laugh about when it is only being talked about, but what if it really happened?
I know this, when I am out and about in my wheelchair, I would definitely have a big iron strapped across my chest. And I would draw on a-holes who stop within crosswalks.