Several corners have been discussing the issue of women in combat situations since the rescue of Pfc. Jessica Lynch. I won’t resurrect that debate here, but here is an article about something indirectly related: guns and women. An excerpt:

Some politicians began to actively encourage women to protect themselves by owning guns. When a serial killer was loose in Baton Rouge in the summer of 2002, Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster advised women “you have a right to get a [concealed] gun permit. … if you know how [to use a gun] and you have a situation with some fruitcake running around, like they’ve got right now, it sure can save you a lot of grief.”

Foster received the predictable backlash of outrage from gun control advocates who suddenly sounded sexist. Holley Galland Haymaker from the anti-gun group Louisiana Ceasefire argued: “Maybe if you’re a big, white guy who hunts all the time, it might do some good. For a woman who is surprise attacked, having a gun is only giving them [the attacker] another way to kill you.”

I will ignore the racist implications of this remark and simply ask, “Why would a white guy who hunts be more competent with a gun than a woman who is trained to use it?”