GUNS FOR DEFENSE A DIVERSION-CHANGE THE CULTURE

For decades, firearms companies have told women that we need guns for protection and safety. And I hate this. I feel it is an acceptance of male violence — that it is energy and effort misdirected to treat a symptom instead of addressing the real problem and finding a solution. These advertisements seem to assume that the danger comes from outside of the home. And that it is the woman’s job to stop instead of society’s job to prevent.  But this is a diversion from the reality that in the U.S.  militaristic, jock culture, hyper macho society, where women are simply objects to be used.  38% of American women have been rape and or assault victims.

In the rust belt and Old Confederacy the Patriarchy rules.  Women are supposed to be inferior to men --put on a pedestal and sort of worshipped (if they're virgins) but sort of shadow men.  This is reinforced by primitive Christianity which tells wives to obey their husbands; put up with macho bullshit.  Wife abuse is rampant in the U.S.  

It is the sick culture of the U.S. that needs to be fixed and focusing of firearms is simply a diversion.