The relationship of man and weapon was intimate and lifelong. Every Comanche learned to fight and hunt. If you weren t waging war, you were preparing for war. It was the duty of every member of the tribe to be ready, just in case. In modern America, women seem to have turned against their own men over the gun issue, judging by the polls and the Million Mom March.
Indian women have a different mindset.
It was the women who taught Comanche boys how to use their weapons. Long before anyone ever heard of Xena the Warrior Princess, a woman called the adiva, or governess ran the Comanche training camps. Americans nowadays seem to be forgetting what it means to be a warrior. They don t value preparedness. They think the government will always be there to defend them from enemies and criminals.