According to a recent letter to the editor in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the NRA “sells no guns” and “has been a friend of Congress and the courts to help write the laws to put the gun violators behind bars.” It’s nice to see that at least one person buys the NRA’s whopper that it serves Ma and Pa gun owners and promotes gun safety. Of course, they are Ma and Pa gun owners who want unlimited numbers of AKs and ARs and believe that a registry and mandatory gun training are government confiscation plots.

The truth is, since 2005, between $20 million and $52.6 million of the NRA’s funding has come from its Ring of Freedom sponsors which include Beretta USA Corporation, Smith & Wesson and other well known manufacturers. Why would an organization serving Ma and Pa gun owners lobby against one-gun-a-month purchase restrictions or laws against gun trafficking? Because, just like its food counterpart the American Beverage Association, the NRA seeks a volume business. It needs to find new people to own guns and sell more guns to existing owners, a prospect that is all the harder because the weapons don’t wear out.

One market the NRA has tried to churn for years is women. If women would just become gun lovers and fanatics like men, gun manufacturers would double their sales and commissions to the NRA like Crimson Trace, Taurus and Sturm Rugar. Enter NRA Women, a web site sponsored by–any guesses?–Smith & Wesson. Trying to make guns a woman thing, there are lifestyle suggestions, tips, personal profiles, an Armed and Fabulous feature and a Refuse to Be a Victim section. “To all the brave women who have defended themselves with a firearm and those who Refuse to Be a Victim, we will tell your story,” the section says.

If only women would protect themselves against the men the NRA arms the NRA would solve its George Zimmerman problem of appearing to arm unbalanced bullies who kill and abuse. If women would arm themselves too, it would be a fairer fight–like a cockfight where both roosters have razors attached to their legs. It’s not too different from the school problem. If school teachers would just arm themselves, the NRA would not have to always hear how James Holmes, Jared Loughner, Seung-Hui Cho and the other young shooters were legal gun owners and how easy it is to get a gun or ten. Because the teachers would fight back.

Of course the problem is when women do arm themselves things often go horribly wrong. In October, police believe a woman in Warren County, Mississippi was killed with her own gun at her residence. Also in October, a woman was shot with her own gun at her residence near Louisville, said a Bullitt County Sheriff’s detective. And then there was professional boxer Christy Salters Martin who was also shot with her own gun. Salters says the idea of women protecting themselves is a myth because, “Too many times, their male counterpart or spouse will be able to overpower them and take that gun away.” Martin was stabbed and shot by her husband after she attempted to leave him.

Of course stories abound also of men shot with their own guns, overpowered or caught by surprise. Either way, only an organization funded by gun manufacturers and pledged to boost sales would declare the answer to gun violence is more guns.

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