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Gun Ownership Steadily Increasing Among US Women
Voice of America
03 Jul 2021, 16:05 GMT+10
ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA - In 2020, Americans battled a pandemic, social injustice and a contested election - conflicts that led many people to become gun owners.
And, consistent with a slow trend over the past decade, more of those gun owners are women.
Beth Privette, who helps run the Women Arm Yourselves Safety program in Brevard, North Carolina, said she added two classes to her calendar in 2020 because there was such a need for it. In the last year and a half, we ve seen quite an uptick, she told VOA.
Port Huron Times Herald
Paul Schroeder was the type of man who never met a stranger, you felt like you knew him your whole life. He loved God and loved to laugh, often laughing until he choked, his stepdaughter Januce Potter said.
“He would laugh his whole heart out,” she said.
But when the Port Huron man caught COVID-19 in November, he struggled to breathe, let alone laugh.
He went into the hospital on Nov. 15 and died Dec. 8 after fighting a hard battle against the virus, according to his obituary.
“We wanted people to know this disease took our dad,” Potter said. “That was really hard.”