Why gun control is really a gender issue

[CHIMO]

Mavis Moore was 4 years old the first time she faced the barrel of a long gun. A neighbour pointed his .22 at the girl and her mother when they stopped by to pick up a newspaper in their small Saskatchewan town.

Sixty-eight years later, Moore remembers dropping one blue angora mitten in the snow as the man stood above them on his steps.

“You can't imagine what it's like, this adult man having a gun on you and threatening to kill you and your mother,” she says.

Moore's mother picked up her child — and the mitten — and left. She never said anything to anyone, fearing the violence would escalate. It was the first time Moore was at risk from a man pointing a gun, but not the last.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/gunregistry/article/863178--why-gun-control-is-really-a-gender-issue?bn=1


Mavis Moore, 72, from Saskatoon, was an avid hunter in her day and is pro-registry and pro-gun control.

Copy of the Program Evaluation.
http://ywcacanada.ca/data/research_docs/00000119.pdf

[Spazito]

1. Good article...

It makes an excellent point re the gender issue.

[laundry_queen]

2. Excellent article

I have never thought of it from a gender issue before, but it makes a lot of sense.

[EmilyKent]

3. Neither rural/urban nor gender methinks.

More like a sanity/insanity question.

[HEyHEY]

4. Sounds like the fact a man pointed a gun at her BOTH times

is incidental. Seems like the first guy was going to point a gun at anyone and the second was the kind of thing that happens all the time.

However, I don't see how having the registry or not will do anything to quell domestic violence, though it's good that it allows the police to check if there's a gun in the house.