Mars Needs Women

Last night I popped a Rob Zombie CD into the laptop and listened to "Mars Needs Women, Angry Red Women" and it has stuck with me.  Made me think of the old couples therapy book "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus."  Then I watched "Boondock Saints" again.

The gun control movement seeks to tell women that they need to be protected.  The gun control movement tells us that we really can't fight back.  The government tells us not to take matters into our own hands (even a 911 operator wouldn't tell a 19 year old mother to shoot the bastard, just "do what she had to do" as if mincing words made a difference).  It is almost as if we really are from different planets, call it "Planet Reality" and "Planet Wishful Thinking."

I'm a big fan of strong female characters.  The list keeps growing.  Xena and Buffy had good runs on TV.  Angelina Jolie played "SALT" and Zoe Saldanada in "Columbiana."  If a little girl wants to be an international spy she doesn't have to look to being an accessory on James Bond's arm anymore, she can be one all on her own.  Breda shut down her blog because she feels her mission is over to empower the women she knows.  These qualify as "very good things" in my mind.

As much as the gun control advocates say that the rise of female shooters is a "fluke" or "bad data" it doesn't change the fact that there are a lot more pink available in the gun world than there used to be.  Love or hate Charter Arms I found the the "Pink Lady" 38 snubby that my wife carries to be reliable and actually pleasant to shoot. 

When my wife and I got married she wouldn't touch a gun.  Now when I get home we are going to get her a rifle of her very own.  I think a Marlin 795 is a good starter gun, and if needs be I can modify the stock to fit her frame.  After she gets good with the 795 I'll see about building her an M4 clone if she is interested. 

You know why the media and liberals absolutely hated Sarah Palin? Because she doesn't need to be protected, because she advocates fighting back, because as feminine as "Caribou Barbie" is, she's still more man than most Democracts I know. It is almost as if were are being separated into two seperate species, one where we maintain our dignity and rights, and one where the iPod People have convinced everyone to buy Apple, drive Subarus (Volvo and Volkswagon also acceptable) and serve as sheeple to their masters. We really are on different planets, a planet based in "reality", and a planet based in "how things should be" according to liberal utopian ideology.


Getting back to Rob Zombie, "Planet Reality" needs women.  Not necessarily angry red women, but women who are either shooters, or supportive of shooters.  So I'm absolutely tickled pink that more and more women are stepping up and reclaiming their strength.  Not in some sort of poetry reading kumbayah drum circle BS, but reclaiming their strength in the gun shops, ranges, and sporting fields of America.  Now if we could just get more gun store clerks to treat women like actual customers....