it's funny there are approximately over two hundred eighty million licensed firearms in the united states of america female owner 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 all begun to joey 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 laws put in place by the revolutionaries. even if the time of war has ended for many americans carrying a firearm remains an inalienable right as important as freedom of religion or expression. turning around and on time. and much the same problem or at a time. probably. 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 the 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 gray ones are more repressive america is divided into. more and more

american women think that being armed is the same as being free. single women mothers 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 son things to be able to have the money to get the gun that i want what is their motivation why are they scared any time here there can be some type of intrusion but i happen to have a fire out of the lobby and powers behind arms manufacturers rally because. it's so popular with women is for the latest because it's pink. all over america we have met women who up 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. there's my god and. a rifle today this is key to enjoying the weekend one time i got a good. captain fancy protective covers twenty two gauge shotgun and in their designer handbags are their pistols. and daisies that. let me see yes.

denise is a fifty three year old housewife she is a regular amongst the divas today she has volunteered to welcome the new participants. well our organization is the largest women's only there are organizations world and so what we do is we think if we can introduce 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 to pick up the sport because 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 and. 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 its twenty gauge and a twenty eight. being a member of this group for seven years and i enjoy the camaraderie enjoy shooting and to get away from my husband i've been a stay at home mom for twenty some odd years after my daughter is 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 that you are your own. but for your daughter she's got a little pink and we go out to shoot little clay rocks at the bar. and she loves.

she was born in the day she was born she became a david david there. 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 as a contentious topic. as for these women learning how to shoot and gaining self confidence is not just a game for marlin a fifty year old banker it's also

a question of survival home. ok frankie tell me about that i was in a parking lot. was with a girlfriend unlocked 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 too sure that i would be afraid and not be able to defend myself. on. 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 a 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 shelling that is 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 some precincts you know he did it. you know whenever you got into the way they are 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. packs in 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 and. 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. some magazines 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 the image of 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. or a. crosstalk

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a different perspective give me one stock tip i'll never i'll give you the information you make the decision don't worry about it i'll bring you the said work of the mind it's a revolution of ideas and consciousness. the system. probably would be described does angry i think i'm a strong. leader single. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy which. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the quote for work of our government and across the citadel we've been hijacked why handful of transnational corporations will profit by destroying what our founding fathers but once i'm tom are gone and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in

the world we go beyond identifying the problem to try rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing the camera ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. behind the magazine 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 trade of firearms it boasts four million members twenty five percent of whom are female thanks to their financial power the n.r.a. plays a major role in american politics. from one thousand nine hundred eighty to two thousand and three it have been chaired by actor charlton heston a star from the golden age of hollywood's a dream spokesman for the n.r.a. . secret stuff reside and would stop to

steal. something that gives the most common or most uncommon treatment. today the n.r.a. can also count on the unconditional support of another star chuck norris i am talking. or a black belt patriot or some thug breaks into my home i can use my roundhouse kick for a look down the barrel of my guy. other celebrities publicly proclaim their support of open arms trading. among them are bruce willis clint eastwood and eva longoria and although the stars aren't necessarily members of the n.r.a. their views are reported in the media a seductive image that hides the radical discourse. we tried to get an interview with the n.r.a. but they didn't want to talk on camera. eventually one pro arms lobbyist agreed to

meet us the gun owners of america association in virginia made up of three hundred thousand members. erica pratt is the man responsible for communications he records pro arms videos weekly which he then posts on the internet like this expose so to the tired age 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 than are killed by farmers 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. arms manufacturers. in two thousand and five a new law was passed in florida with influential support stand your ground. it allows anyone under threats to use their farm and even kill if they are deemed to be in real danger at home or in public. legitimising 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. oklahoma is one of the twenty five states the permits self-defense through the use of firearms . to run my camera again. i'm going to go back. on the night of the thirty first of december two thousand and eleven sarah mckinley a young eighteen year old woman calls the police someone is trying to break into her house. the young woman locks herself in the bathroom with her three month old baby and a rifle. everything . 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 all. each year two hundred thirty thousand women on average are sold in the street or at home. they are also 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. 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 a number of pharmacies amanda is the secretary she is twenty eight with two kids and the average american with no wild stories two years ago this young mother

bought her first go realizing a lifelong dream. i have been saving up for a long time and i have sacrificed something to be able to have the money to get the gun that i want and the 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 am 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. 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's going to buy a fourth gear 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 so much is it it's five hundred fifty nine dollars. the young woman chooses the harm done.

it's a struggle for. the formal to use 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. and. with a criminal record or being treated for serious mental health issues is forbidden from purchasing. to present himself. i think i work hard so i think i deserve it. verification takes five minutes. till i get to this. 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 you 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 one whether the young lady like spank 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 you know if people think it's good for them that they can actually we're proud daughter and hero and thought i knew he had his name behind me here say we make up your mind we think and say please. let me. ask you this now. have you ever had to see someone to protect yourself in the street yet. not yet. said ok so he shoots them. so

our right 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 us a third warrant fought in a gun store. heading to thomasville in the state of georgia we've gone to a gun show a real arms fire. 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 are about as safe as i stood in front of a spread on tables are pistol shotguns even assault rifles that can be bought as easily

as find a complainer. in the aisles many women of color alone with friends or family with husbands or even children. the stands are all complied by recognized vendors and individuals. sludge on easy like that it just comes on. a gun 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 us 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 them while in the trying to get votes because they have an agenda that agenda is actually. favor big business.

and big. mind. and bank all that. money and i think that's like a politician right. there just like prat. there's a new game we like to play you see a game with no added sovereignty you jamie to above that puts me on my knees you call it master and servant we call alex and simon with this sort of independents who need servitude alex why be yet another nation on the chain gang when you can be the first on the block chain.

i marinate join me on thirteen get impartial and financial reporting commentary for news and much much. only on combust and on. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question for. it's

a classic. over by. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy correct all books. will. never go on i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on while we go beyond identifying the problem trying to fix rational debate a real discussion critical issues facing america about ready to join the movement then welcome to the big picture. launch on arbonne in washington d.c. here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture.