The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, September 24, 1999, Image 3

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Page 3 • Friday, September 24, 1999
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he first time Meggan Brad-
berry fired a gun, she was in
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“The power of the shotgun was
_^Ring,” Bradherry said. “When
Bshotgun shell explodes, it
'itazes me that the spread of the *
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a 7^Hhat.”
Bomen around campus are dec-
tating the stereotype of women as
■weaker sex.” One manifesta-
>n of these falling stereotypes is
'"'WpBhilitv of women to effectively
’"■le a firearm. And these
^.|men do not fit the “manly”
‘ jreotype, either.
Atriv> Bradberry, a junior animal sci-
k major, decided to learn how to
hoot a handgun after a male friend
y^SBested they go bird-hunting.
“I’ve always grown up in a hunt-
r ^ gbackground,” Bradberry said.
l iave mV hunter’s certificate,
after my friend suggested it, 1
^^Iled my parents and said I wanted
ilearn to shoot.”
Jradberry said her parents, both
(Ivhom own firearms and hunt,
^■e excited about the idea of her
falling to shoot.
^My mom got all excited,” Brad-
y said. “She’s a better shot than
ly dad and has great aim. She goes
T-hunting with my dad and
' ^-•irijngs back more than he does. ”
r^Bccording to statistics from the
-ryfomen’s Shooting Sports Founda-
* i\|teon (WSSF), the number of female
hunters has increased 15 percent be-
teen 1989 and 1997 and currently
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represent 11 percent of the overall
hunting population.
Melissa Hvizdos, a sophomore
political science major and a mem
ber of the Corps of Cadets, said she
learned to shoot for future safety.
“I’ve always been interested in
learning to shoot,” Hvizdos said. “I
want to know how to handle a gun
so when I move out in the future,
later in life. I’ll be able to protect
myself. ”
Daniel Powell, a sophomore
mechanical engineering major,
said, from a male perspective, he
feels it is important for women to
learn to shoot.
“I say more power to them,” Pow
ell said. “It’s a good skill to know. It’s
the same as learning to use tools to
fix a car; you don’t always need it,
but sometime it’s useful.”
From the female perspective,
Hvizdos said men have more re-!
spect for a woman who can de
fend herself.
“Being in the Corps especially, I
think anyone who can defend her
self physically and is tough under
neath is accepted,” Hvizdos said.
“Their [cadet’s! perspective changes
when they know you’re not weak.
They have more respect and can
somcttmes.be intimidated.”
iTvizdos said when she learned to
shoot, the men who taught her were
very positive and motivating.
Bradberry said men sometimes
seem condescending to women
who step out of conventional
bounds.
see Guns on Page 5.
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