Women can hold a fixed position, and can shoot a rifle/shotgun while doing so, but in a TEOTWAKI situation they are most useful for bearing children, since females are the reproductive bottleneck of homo sapiens.
I will actually push back here and tell you that most women cannot properly operate and reload a .556 or 7.62 rifle and are laughably incapable of shooting anything other than birdshot out of a 12 gauge. I know you can find me some southern queen who can, but I guarantee you she's in the top 1% of women.
Women can hold a fixed position, and can shoot a rifle/shotgun while doing so, but in a TEOTWAKI situation they are most useful for bearing children, since females are the reproductive bottleneck of homo sapiens.
I will actually push back here and tell you that most women cannot properly operate and reload a .556 or 7.62 rifle and are laughably incapable of shooting anything other than birdshot out of a 12 gauge. I know you can find me some southern queen who can, but I guarantee you she's in the top 1% of women.
Y'all aren't really arguing. "Women" can and "most women" can't. "Men" can operate a mortar. Most men don't know how.