My daughter gets the magazine SEVENTEEN. I was pleasantly surprised to see in the current issue (November, 09) an article entitled: GIRLS & GUNS.
The first page of the article showed a girl in her late teens, with a target range behind her, an NRA tag dangling from her belt, and a pistol in her hand. She was quoted extensively as it gave a nice story about her shooting background. Now, of course, there were the anti-gun arguments included in the article for balance, but overall the article was VERY POSITIVE and leaning strongly Pro-Gun.
The article consisted of the stories of about a half dozen girls, ONLY ONE STORY was negative and talked about how the girl's friend was killed in school by another girl who stole a gun from home and murdered her friend. All the other stories talked about positive aspects of guns in their lives, about having a gun for protection, about how shooting guns is empowering, etc. The end of the article had a small PRO-CON bit with 2 girls, each taking opposite views about guns. But as I state, the article was a very good one for gun owners, probably leaning 75% pro-gun balanced with 25% anti-gun.
I could not find a link to the story on the internet, but figured people would still like to know about a positive story anyway
The first page of the article showed a girl in her late teens, with a target range behind her, an NRA tag dangling from her belt, and a pistol in her hand. She was quoted extensively as it gave a nice story about her shooting background. Now, of course, there were the anti-gun arguments included in the article for balance, but overall the article was VERY POSITIVE and leaning strongly Pro-Gun.
The article consisted of the stories of about a half dozen girls, ONLY ONE STORY was negative and talked about how the girl's friend was killed in school by another girl who stole a gun from home and murdered her friend. All the other stories talked about positive aspects of guns in their lives, about having a gun for protection, about how shooting guns is empowering, etc. The end of the article had a small PRO-CON bit with 2 girls, each taking opposite views about guns. But as I state, the article was a very good one for gun owners, probably leaning 75% pro-gun balanced with 25% anti-gun.
I could not find a link to the story on the internet, but figured people would still like to know about a positive story anyway