<div>Liberals are always preaching about how sexism is &#8220;inherently part of our legal system.&#8221; Then, they oppose open carry. This is truly ironic, because women would benefit the most from allowing open carry. For starters, can you imagine someone trying to attack a woman who is blatantly carrying a gun? It&#8217;s hard to imagine someone picking a girl with a gun on her waistband out as a good target. It&#8217;s a deterrent.</div>
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<div>Aside from that, let&#8217;s look at the practicality of concealed carry for women. It&#8217;s difficult. Many men are able to simply stick a small handgun in their pants pocket and that&#8217;s that. Have you ever seen the pockets on women&#8217;s jeans? I can&#8217;t even fit my cell phone or wallet in there. Unless a woman wants to wear cargo pants everywhere, pocket-carry isn&#8217;t an option.</div>
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<div>There&#8217;s a reason women carry their things in a purse instead of in their pockets. A purse, however, is a bad place to carry a concealed weapon. Women will understand why immediately- things shift around in purses. If a purse is big enough to carry a gun and everything else that woman needs, it&#8217;s big enough for the gun to get buried in. Generally, if you need a gun to defend your life, you need that gun NOW- not thirty seconds later when you dig it out of the bottom of a handbag. If a potential attacker is following you down the street, you might have time to rummage for a second and be poised to draw. But if a rapist jumps out at you from behind a corner, you can&#8217;t afford the distraction nor the time.</div>
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<div>That leaves holsters. Smaller women might have a hard time finding one that fits well in the first place, and once again, standard women&#8217;s clothing makes it rather difficult to conceal a weapon. Mens jeans are generally loose fitting and leave room for a gun to be holstered inside the waistband. If a woman, wearing women&#8217;s pants, tried that, you&#8217;d see a gun-shaped bulge sticking out of her butt and we can hardly call that gun &#8220;concealed.&#8221;</div>
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<div>Some women have better success concealing on the lower back or around the waist under a loose-fitting blouse, but that doesn&#8217;t always work. Unless the shirt is several sizes too big, you&#8217;ll most likely still be able to see a bulge. For a woman trying to maintain a professional appearance, walking around in a shirt that&#8217;s far too big on her isn&#8217;t an option, and it also severely limits the types of clothing she can wear at all. As a smaller woman, it hardly matters whether I&#8217;m wearing loose or tight-fitted shirts. A typical 9mm covers half my lower back and it&#8217;s going to stick out no matter what. The one way I&#8217;ve had success concealing a gun is by holstering it to my leg under a loose A-line skirt, but I can&#8217;t wear a skirt or dress every day.</div>
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<div>The obvious solution is to permit people to openly carry their weapons in states that still require carried handguns to be hidden from view. In fact, you&#8217;d think liberals who are terrified of guns would want to know who has a gun so they could steer clear. It would also keep gun owners, and anyone in their vicinity, safer- no one&#8217;s going to want to try anything when they can see that the good guys have guns. And few people would try to attack a visibly armed woman.</div>
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