older seem to be more and more common today one in five americans own at least one firearm a phenomenon which didn't exist thirty years ago. and i'm not a girl that's for a big and to joe way i have a few pieces but i don't wear a lot of it and that what we do together as a family is collect cans and target shade. the right to carry a gun is supported by the second amendment of the constitution established in seventeen one thousand one by james madison after the war of independence. free circulation of guns was one of the first flows put in place by the revolutionaries . even if the time of war has ended for many americans carrying a firearm remains and in a right as important as freedom of religion or expression. and carry on and on time. and not the same problem or at a time. paradoxically while crime levels have lowered

since two thousand and five the sale of guns keeps on rising. the subject divides american society with the pro arms on one side and i'm tired arms on the other. consequently each state has their own legislation for regulating the sale and carrying of guns the twenty seven states in red on the map have lenient laws the twenty three grey ones are more repressive america is divided into. more and more american women think that being armed is the same as being free. single woman retiree's for them buying a pistol is as natural as doing the washing some are real enthusiastic. i have been saving up and i have sacrificed something else to be able to have the money to get the gun that i want what is their motivation and why are they scared any time i hear there can be some type of interest. but i happen to have

a fire how do the lobbying powers behind arms manufacturers rally their cause. that's so popular with women is for the latest because it's been. all over america we have met women who hold the right to bear arms. on a deserted street with a wild west feel to it we find ourselves in the heart of texas. why oh ranch two hundred kilometers away from the nearest town the women who get off this bus are housewives business women and even grandmothers all are members of diva wow . a club for those craving a life outdoors. that's their goal to have fun with other like minded women at the weekend and they don't come

unprepared clothes hats jewelry and leopard prints everywhere you look. here's my guy and. a rifle. today this is key to enjoying the weekend and by old world one i got a. captain fancy protective covers twenty two gauge shotgun and in their designer handbags are their pistols. and daisies and ask them if they do yes. denise is a fifty three year old housewife she is a regular amongst the davis today she has volunteered to welcome the new participants. well our organization is the largest women's only out there are going to zation the world and so what we do is we think if we can interface women to the outdoors they will bring their children so that's why we come in here in the n.f.l. they really had a great time we were shooting and they can take it home and then introduce their children when they can pick up the sport. we just don't want to run our country

we've lost two generations of shooting and we have picked up the banner so that didn't happen again. hunting or target shooting is a cement a tradition in american folklore back in the times of the old wild west when the country was still a vast and hostile wilderness the settlers armed themselves with shotguns as they discovered the promised land little by little they are in their freedom in their own way these women are doing the same here today. and again or i've got several shotguns rifles pistols. on this trip i brought when you get to twenty eight. been a member of this group for seven years and i enjoy the camaraderie and joy shooting and to get away from my husband i've been a stay at home mom for twenty some odd years after my daughters left alone i had to find something that i enjoyed doing for myself and that's what brought to me.

in the space of a weekend these model mothers are transformed into real hunters free from family obligations they intend to pass on their knowledge and hobbies to their children you are your own. for your daughter she's got a little pink baby and we go out to shoot little clay rocks at the farm. she loves the house she was born a day that the day she was born she became a david david trigger. are these guns normally reserved for shooting birds or clay discs able to be used in other circumstances. susan is forty nine and a fashion designer. i've never been put in a situation where i had to make a choice to shoot a human or not. so i can't answer yes or no but i can say i believe that i would

protect i think that my instincts would take over and if i had something that i could protect myself or my children or with i think that i would i think as we go back to our instincts to protect defending oneself is a contentious topic. as for these women learning how to shoot and gaining self confidence is not just a game for a fifty year old banker it's also a question of survival. ok frank you tell me about that i was in a parking lot i was with a girlfriend unlock the car to let her out to her car and a gun was held right to my head with two guys and a guy came around the other side knocked her back in the car. and they asked for all our jewelry and i told him he went get him. and he hit me in the face invested my nose and sort of not me. cuckoo and they stole all their

jewelry so after that. i decided i would never be helpless again i would never be sure that i would be afraid and not be able to defend myself . to finish off the day judy hosts a meeting with the divas by the pool she has planned to get up steam special weapons for clothes and accessories. being at the forefront of fashion whilst armed to the teeth but still staying feminine under all circumstances. it's another way to get women passionate about firearms. it's very sexy to be able to wear your gun on your person and with the new styles that you can conceal your gun

and your closes just makes it even easier to take it wherever you need to go and casey would your man showing that it's when you don't think that you have a gun on you. and attaches to your for all you know if you have the middle of your bra so the concept was it that you flash them and then you can get your gun out very quickly so that's where the concept of flash bang came from clothes how bikes or browse for hiding guns you'd almost think we were in a spy film however in the united states of america these products for women are profit. business on the internet this mother to be has developed a gun holster that she is marketing and writing him off a paper and precincts you know he did it with you because you know whenever you try and get away from here and it's like really high up. there. in this other video a woman shows us a wide range of cases for carrying weapons discreetly. and the powerful lobby

groups who defend the right of each citizen to bear arms understand about to attract women to their cause they have to change their style on their sites or swimsuits t. shirts and even baby clothes all marked with their logo buying these products is adhering to the ideology. it's a winning strategy as observed by laura browder university professor and expert when it comes to female gun carriers. you know women's involvement with guns really started up again in the one nine hundred eighty s. when the gun industry realized that handgun sales were flat and that hunters were dying off and not being replaced and so they began marketing once again to women and women's gun magazines started to be published in the media got interested because it was such a great story and as gun magazines aimed at women began to be published and

ads aimed at women began to be published. books also came out here's one five. paxton quickly who is the cover girl actually on this magazine and this book was called armed and female it sold zillions of copies and was a media sensation because paxton quickly suggested that if women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns and learn how to use them because. the police weren't going to be there to protect them husbands weren't going to protect them in fact husbands might be the ones trying to rape them and they needed to protect themselves. reinforcing ideas in women's magazines spreading the idea that a strong woman is an armed woman and the results speak for themselves since nine hundred ninety gun sales amongst women have risen by twenty percent now pistols revolvers and rifles form an integral part of the american shopping basket.

it is really important for the gun industry that every member of the family own a gun. and that guns are seen as something that promotes family values you know not something that's associated with violence and crime. so the n.r.a. so magazine woman's outlook has a cover that says thanks mom and here's the mom with her kids and everyone in the family has a gun. this is one of my absolute favorite covers of women and guns magazine it's the suburban mom with the shopping cart and the toddler in the cart we've all seen this image a thousand times but she's at the gun store and she's shopping for ammo. and of course guns make the great holiday present here is the christmas tree and the little girl with what's probably her first gun. and already.

put it on your bill maher but a lot of these college face i think sometimes people. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. negotiations continue but that does not stop the blame game from reaching we are told iran in the western powers thrown the virtually an agreement regarding to end this nuclear program then the talks stalled into the familiar stalemate the enemies

of diplomacy appears to have the upper hand is more the only option left. party dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. time to read the irish government has been sending letters to the young unemployed citizens of violence and jesting that they leave town go overseas scatter scran pounces get out of our statistical sites get dealt get out of here joy good don't

want to see your poor lonely face. no mo. bugger because we've traded you for some ghost ships of death fraud and the collateral call has come in. behind the mica scene propaganda of the biggest pro arms lobbyists such as the national rifle association. since eight hundred seventy one the n.r.a. upholds the open. trait of firearms it boasts four million members twenty five percent of them are female thanks to their financial power plays a major role in american politics. from one thousand nine hundred eighty to two thousand and three it has been chaired by. a star from the golden age of hollywood's dream spokesman for the. big stuff. and. something that gives me more common.

today the. conditional support of another star. like. other celebrities publicly proclaim their support of arms trading. among bruce willis clint eastwood. and the stars aren't necessarily members of the n.r.a. . in the media. it's the radical discourse. we tried to get an interview with but they didn't want to talk on camera. eventually.

agreed to meet us. three hundred thousand members. communications. video which he posts on the internet. all throughout the spring of two thousand and eleven bloomberg sponsored a cross-country tour in his efforts to impose extreme restrictions upon second amendment rights four times as. many americans die negligently at the hands of doctors that are killed by farms i'm not saying that we should do away with doctors it just means we live in a dangerous world people drown more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms and yet there's not a crusade to ban peanut butter and jelly sandwiches it just means that that we need to be very responsible and very careful with dangerous objects and what you have to

look at is how many lives are saved by guns there's a lot of self-defense with firearms that takes place that breaks down to about four thousand times to seven thousand times a day. pratt is adamant guns save more lives than they killed. and nothing seems to be able to loosen the grip of the powerful lobbies and the arms manufacturers. in two thousand and five a new law was passed in florida with the n.r.a. so influential support stand your ground. it allows anyone under threats to use their far arm and even kill if they are deemed to be in real danger at home or in public. this law legitimizing self-defense has been passed in twenty five states with some variations under different guises such as shoot first . being attacked at home and having the ability to defend yourself in

a life threatening situation is not unlikely last january a news story captured america's attention and served to strengthen the lobby stances oklahoma is one of the twenty five states that permits self-defense through the use of firearms. american. action are hearing on the night of the thirty first of december two thousand and eleven sarah mckinley a young eighteen year old woman calls the police some. one is trying to break into her house. the young woman locks herself in the bathroom with her three month. in such an emergency the police tell her that she can shoot the intruder under the stand your ground law. for those who support the bearing of arms in the us the

story of sarah mckinley is an example to. each year two hundred thirty thousand women on average in the street. sometimes victims of domestic violence twelve hundred women were killed by their husbands and twenty ten. some might say that having the right to defend oneself is simply a question of survival. the u.s. is the country with the most armed civilians out of mexico and brazil buying a gun here is simply a formality more and more it's women who feel the need to arm themselves amanda lives in south dakota today she is on her way to a gun store in the u.s. there are eighty thousand of them almost as many as the number of pharmacists amanda is a secretary she is twenty eight with two kids an average american with no wild stories two years ago this young mother bought her first gun realizing a lifelong dream. i have been saving up for

a long time and i have sacrificed some things to be able to have the money to get the gun that i want and things that i have given up is probably like. you know like stuff that i would normally buy for myself probably like purses and i don't really big in texas or reason things but i don't spend that much on those things because buying guns and ammo and all that for recreation it's quite a bit of money hello should be right now if i'm looking for like a colt forty five kind of gun or a thirty thirty with a lever action. immediately. she now owns three guns and today she is going to buy a fourth year i think this is the one that i want to go with ok i think i'm going to go with this one this is within my budget pledges that it's five hundred fifty nine dollars. the young woman chooses the heim gum

a stove. it's true for. the formalities involve a background check. once completed by the client the vendor sends the details by fax to offices in washington who will oversee the declaration by the client. anyone with a criminal record or being treated for serious mental. health issues is forbidden from purchasing. to present himself. and i work hard so i think i deserve it. verification takes five minutes. i think you get me. in a quarter of an hour amanda has bought a gun and can take it home. in this store there are hundreds of different guns for every different taste. the objective of the arms industry is to seduce men and women. we have

a good female clientele here let me show you some of the guns that they're interested in and that's been popular with women is obviously more for the latest because it's pink the love it and can't wait to have it to ensure that their children are safe women are willing to take any measure taking this into consideration companies have developed weapons for children smaller than those for adults but just as deadly let's have a look at some guns for kids. these small twenty two rifles are popular for parents to buy their children some of them as young as four or five years old. so obviously scaled down and small for a child. or. young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink won whether the young lady likes pink or not because this way her brother won't take it. there are weapons for the entire family. gun culture is

not a term without meaning in the us especially in rural areas. we're headed to texas a pro-gun stronghold the streets of the small town of kerrville hearken back to the wild west men and women are all carrying guns on their person as if it was natural . but if you tell it. good for them that they can actually we're proud that our hero and saw the time he shot he did something i mean you're saying we've got you on what we think and say jeffrey. let me. ask you this now. have you ever had to see someone protect yourself in the street and yet. not yet. such a safety issue. so our ride of freedom of the united states has been.

carrying a gun is commonplace in some states like texas. but given the overbearing presence of the arms trade throughout the area how could it be otherwise. of the two hundred eighty million guns in circulation in the u.s. a search warrant fought in a gun store. heading to thomasville in the state of georgia we've gone to a gun show a real arms fair. how are you going to fight each year five thousand gun shows enter towns for three days in a carnival spirit. entry is free provided you carefully holster away your weapons to avoid any accidents. you know everybody's safe as i stood in front of a spread on tables are pistol shots even assault rifles can be bought as easily as find a vacuum cleaner. in the aisles many women of color alone with friends or

family with husbands or even children in. the stands or all complied by recognized vendors and individuals. such onesie like that it just comes on and. i'm done shows anyone can come. and sell their own weapons that are on display and with no verification there was no famous background check. it's estimated that twelve thousand guns will be sold in these three days. george because the old us is a professor of journalism. he lived in france for thirty five years and has been interested in the issues surrounding gun culture in the u.s. for a long time. we showed him some extracts from our film. the

strong getting towards these people and once again it's the fear factor. when the definitely the target of the gun lobby for sure the reason women are buying weapons is a combination of the gun lobby. and. macchiavelli and politicians who are trying to install fear in people who did follow. the trying to get votes because they have an agenda and that agenda is actually. fever big. on june sixteenth one thousand forty one we had a graduation party at school and the war broke out.

the shops were always full of goods. in september leningrad was blocked. one day mom went and saw that all the shelves were empty. in november the two warehouses it was the main storage place for all. the food in the city people would be eating the earth because it had small traces of sugar in it i tried to eat it as well but i couldn't. look at the it was incredibly heavy bombing. it was a direct trade on that very shelter and everyone was buried underneath. all of them would dead.

a few. economic ups and downs in the final column month day the london new york sang i and the rest of life it's going to take it will be everything on me. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman i killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results you get innocent people to confess to police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques

are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse and they were often they could get what they wanted they could say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. it's a. pleasure to have you with us you're on our team today i roll researcher. i'm.

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