Women With Guns
<p>James Rummel <a href="http://handbasket.blogspot.com/2002_05_12_handbasket_archive.html#76467847" asks</a> why men keep teaching women to shoot, despite the fact that they tend to outdo us at this manly pursuit.</a></p>
<p>As a man who makes something of a hobby of teaching woman to shoot, I can answer in two ways:</p>
<p>One: Women need to learn to shoot more than men do.  Men have a 2:1 advantage in upper-body strength over women.   Most criminal assailants are men.  While we Y-chromosome types have a fair chance of fighting the average assailant off without technological help, women do not.  I teach women to shoot on the principle that the only good rapist is a dead one.</p>
<p>Two: A pretty woman with a gun in her hand is way sexier than one without.  Why this is I don&#8217;t know, but I do know that I am far from the only male with this reaction.  There was that legendary video of bikini-clad models firing automatic weapons&#8230;</p>
<p>Which reason is more important?  Let&#8217;s just observe that all  interesting behavior is overdetermined and leave it at that.</p>
