No, you missed the point that a world class athlete, Julie Goloski, is offering for sale a copy of the exact piece of sports equipment she wins with in international competition. and a portion of the sales will be donated to Breast Cancer research. This should be about as controversial as Lance Armstrong raffling off his Tour de France bike for cancer research.

more facts

Total # of women who die from Breast cancer in 2005
41,116
http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/statistics/

Total gunshot deaths in women, all causes, including suicide (2006)
4,050 this includes 2,149 firearm suicides and 1,901 firearm homicides.
http://tinyurl.com/yjxft6e

so basically, guns are involved in less than one tenth the number of annual deaths of women than breast cancer.

for some sort of comparison as to rarity of death by violence of all types,
http://tinyurl.com/yzyydzx

this shows how homicide deaths OF ALL CAUSES in women are ranked 15th, after heart disease, chronic respiratory disease, unintentional injury, diabetes, suicide, hypertension, and even Parkinson’s Disease.

so basically, this whole thing can break down to PR Watch shrieking “EEEK a GUN!!!111eleventy!!

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Actually, according to the CDC report the author of that post linked to, that’s not true. Guns were the leading tool used. But about 48% of women that are murdered are killed by someone with a firearm.

I actually posted a similar comment and didn’t think to copy it before clicking “post”. I finished with something like “since heart disease is the leading killer of women, I suppose you’d be just as angry if fast food chains supported breast cancer awareness as well”.

The leading causes of death for women are heart disease, cancer and then stroke. Not guns. In fact, guns are not a “cause” of death in women at all. Homicide is a CAUSE of death.

Did you mean to say that guns are used in the majority of homicides of which women are the victim? Ok then, that’s true. But why stop with gun manufacturers? Since in the overwhelming majority of homicides in which women are the victim, the perpetrator is a man, you should probably just reject any donations or support by men for the breast cancer cause as cynical nonsense. After all, men are the leading killers of women—regardless of method—so how could they possibly have an interest in supporting breast cancer research and treatment? That is literally how silly your “point” is.

And men are the majority of homicide victims, not women, and most of those men are killed with guns. If a gun maker donated money to testicular or prostate cancer research, nobody would be making the same ridiculous criticism you’re making here. They would appreciate the donation.

“This is … roughly the equivalent of a cigarette maker selling a special pink cigarette for women, and then donating a tiny percentage of the profits from it to a women’s lung cancer fund.”

No, it’s not even remotely equivalent. That analogy would only make sense if guns caused breast cancer.