(Cowritten by Kathryn Laughon, Associate professor of nursing at the University of Virginia) In an effort to draw support from women, the NRA is attempting to position guns as a women's issue, asserting that females should be "armed and fabulous." Past president of the NRA, Sandra Froman, recently told a group of University of Virginia law students that because women are smaller and weaker than men, they need guns for personal safety. Guns, Froman implied, are the latest way to assert your feminism.