Will Making Guns Sexy Help The NRA Sell To Women?

In The Young Turks on YouTube by Hlarson0 Comments

 

“Ladies, are you feeling conflicted and dissatisfied in your relationships with guns? On the one hand, you’re flattered by all the attention you’re getting from the gun industry. You love when the gun lobby shares its fantasies with you, whispering sweet nothings into your ear about the ways guns make women safer. Sure, you know that the availability of guns actually correlates directly with female homicide. That women in the U.S. are 11 times more likely to be murdered with guns than women in other high-income countries. That the presence of a gun in domestic violence situations increases the risk of homicide for women by 500 percent. And that 38 percent fewer women are shot to death by intimate partners in states that require background checks.” *

In this clip The Young Turks’ Ana Kasparian (http://twitter.com/anakasparian) and Cenk Uygur (http://twitter.com/cenkuygur) discuss whether a bra holster is such a good idea and how the NRA’s marketing campaign reflects complete cynicism about the cycle of violence.

* For more, read the Raw Story article here: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/15/five-sexy-products-that-let-ladies-conceal-their-guns-and-show-off-their-bodies/

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