Women with guns: The next threat to the Democratic Party

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"Women have a tendency ... to not only feel but behave much more confidently when they know they are not only able to provide food for the table but also be able to protect ourselves."

Protecting the constitutional right to bear arms has driven women like her to vote for political candidates who are Second Amendment advocates.

"It was the leading reason that I voted for Donald Trump last November," Croney says. "He gave voice to a strong support of Second Amendment rights when he released his picks for the Supreme Court during the campaign [and] he followed that up, true to his word, with his pick of Neil Gorsuch."

A losing issue for Democrats

The increase of women buying guns is relatively recent. Women for years could be counted to support gun control. But the gender divide is fading.

It changes the perception of why anyone, male or female, buys a gun, and it has had an impact on local and national politics.

"As the number of women gun-owners rises, so has the number of women conveying doubts over the virtues of gun control," Cable said.

The gender gap on guns has been huge in the past. But a Pew survey showed that between 2008 and 2012, the percentage of women supporting gun rights rose by nine points.

"As more and more women are connecting gun ownership and self-defense with empowerment, their views on gun control have shifted," said Brad Todd, founding partner of OnMessage.

"I think this is an indication of where Democrats have failed to understand the self-defense aspect of the Second Amendment.

"For a party that invests so much time in intellectually driving the gender gap," he said, "this is something they have completely missed, especially when you get outside the densest urban areas."

And it shows, not just in the presidential election's results but in down-ballot races in many states: As women's pro-gun views have increased, local Democratic seats, especially those where office holders or candidates were required to back the national party's line on guns, have evaporated.

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The Democrats overall strategy of taking away personal freedoms, and liberties, and giving the control over to GOVERNMENT is backfiring on them. More, and more women, and first time gun owners are realizing government can neither protect, nor take care of them. They want the freedom to choose self protection, and self reliance. I think it is great that women are buying guns, and getting training. It will help our cause immensely.