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    | OH: More than ever, women are getting concealed carry permits Submitted by: 
			
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    | Nationwide, more and more women are getting firearms.
 
 According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, 80 percent of gun retailers saw an increase in women between 2011 and 2012. The number of women who owned guns spiked to 23 percent in 2011, compared to 13 percent in a 2005 Gallup poll, according to Natalie Foster’s website, “The Girl’s Guide to Guns.”
 
 A store clerk at the Jefferson Golden Dawn’s Sporting Goods department said the same trend can be seen in Ashtabula County.
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     Millwright66
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    | Wonderful news !  Every woman that carries or is  (unfortunately forced)  to use a firearm to defend herself/hers has a "deterring halo effect" on other criminals targeting women. |  
 
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                      | We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest.  We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again.  Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time.  The first problem is to slow down production and sales.  Next is to get registration.  The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal.  — Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53 |  |  |