Talk:Second Amendment Sisters

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I'm going to take off the Neutrality tag because the talk page is empty, until someone give a reason for it it doesn't need to be here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.166.244.193 (talk) 02:33, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

need sources

Need some neutral sources describing this group, the article seems taken mostly from the group's website, or their promotional materials, hard to tell. There is coverage in the book: Information and American democracy: technology in the evolution of political power By Bruce Allen Bimber Published by Cambridge University Press, 2003 Page 169 and 170 ISBN 9780521804929[1]. SaltyBoatr (talk) 14:48, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I came so close to nominating this thing for deletion, but I found this one, decent source - and it's over 10 years old! Honestly - over five years with a "refimprove" tag?

• Mehren, Elizabeth (January 8, 2003). "Campus Feminism With a Twist -- and a .22". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2015. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

It's crazy that this group gets linked to from so many other articles. It's notability is less than negligible.

--Lightbreather (talk) 02:41, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

Preserve unsourced (for over five years now)

The lone source I found didn't support most of what was in the article. Here it is, preserved.

Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. (SAS) is a non-partisan women's advocacy group in the United States dedicated to the protection of gun rights, specifically for the purpose of self defense. It is an all-volunteer 501(c)(4) non-profit organization based in Texas, with chapters nationwide.

According to a 2003 Los Angeles Times times article, SAS was founded in December 1999 by five women who were "outraged" by the Million Mom March. Using the Internet, these women and a handful of other volunteers staged a counter-rally in Washington, DC, on Mother's Day, May 13, 2000. In the months preceding these events, the media regularly called upon SAS to represent the equal counterpoint to the Million Mom March in print, radio and television, including a two hour televised Good Morning America town hall meeting from the White House on the Saturday before. On March 18, 2008, SAS organized the rally in support of Dick Anthony Heller's right to keep an operable handgun for self-protection in his home subject of the United States Supreme Court hearing of DC v. Heller in Washington, DC.

SAS interprets the Second Amendment as recognizing the pre-existing natural right of individuals to bear arms as tools of self-defense, and promotes gun safety and marksmanship among their members. They focus on community outreach, women's firearm shoots, women's personal safety training, and political advocacy. Citing FBI crime statistics, they assert firearms are the only reasonable means of self-protection, especially for women, people of short stature, people with disabilities, and the elderly.

Second Amendment Sisters had a column in Gun Week. The group's slogan is "Self defense is a basic human right."

--Lightbreather (talk) 02:58, 31 January 2015 (UTC)

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