Misogynistic Gun Extremists Increasingly Harass Women In Favor of Gun Safety.

I respond to graveyard-rhythm and other reblogs below.

Via  feministing,I found thisMother Jones report:

Ever since the Sandy Hook massacre, a small but vocal faction of the gun rights movement has been targeting women who speak up on the issue—whether to propose tighter regulations, educate about the dangers to children, or simply to sell guns with innovative security features. The vicious and often sexually degrading attacks have evolved far beyond online trolling, culminating in severe bullying, harassment, invasion of privacy, and physical aggression. Though vitriol flows from both sides in the gun debate, these menacing tactics have begun to alarm even some entrenched pro-gun conservatives.

This is sadly not surprising, given how women are treated when voicing political opinions, especially if those opinions are liberal/progressive/feminist/threaten a certain masculinity. Nevertheless, this is really troubling. The Sandy Hook elementary school “truther” “movement” belongs in the same context – they even call grieving mothers to tell them their child never existed.

I’m sure this is just a smaller faction of gun enthusiasts.At this point it is only fair to stress that the majority of Americans, including gun enthusiastic members of the NRA, support increased gun control meassures.Still, even this small group is dangerous and already doing damage.

graveyard-rhythm responded:

Actually, it’s been proven that most gun owners don’t support gun control. Also, those two? Exercised bad gun safety and shouldn’t have done what they did. Also, point of note, “Moms Demand Action” have been caught time after time, lying about several encounters and events. Sandy Hook was a tragedy, but grouping idiots and conspiracy theorists in with legitimate people, that’s kind of crazy, isn’t it?

Finally? To hell with the NRA. They’re a bunch of fear mongering idiots.

I’m specifically not lumping in reasonable gun enthusiasts in with the extremist harassers and the conspiracy idiots in one group. The latter two belong to/come from similar contexts. That’s why I linked to a (for me) reasonable study and especially keep stressing that it’s a “small faction”, a “small group” of gun owners/enthusiasts. A small, vocal, and potentially dangerous group, but a small group.

Also, because others have brought this up when reblogging: Death threats/harassment against pro-gun people are wrong and terrible, too. I don’t “report” them, because this is a personal non-professional blog that represents my interests.