Posted on 05/09/2018 12:18:47 PM PDT by Liberty7732
New York City and other leftist cities and states are making it almost impossible for a woman to purchase even the most minimal of defensive measures — leaving them exposed and at the mercy of violent, stronger male criminals with no way to even the odds.
This may not be the intent, but the recoiling of leftists at allowing Americans to own anything that might resemble a weapon is creating the perverse result that women have a hard time finding any defensive tools.
This is where the nonsense notion of keeping all “weaponry” out of the hands of law-abiding citizens has gone — and it is led there by the overwrought reactions to guns.
A friend whose daughter recently graduated from college in New York and moved into the City, realized she was not in a very good neighborhood. She wanted to find some way of protecting herself, so she tried to order online some mace or pepper spray — anything of that nature — and was told they cannot deliver to New York City. Mace is illegal period. Pepper spray is not totally illegal, but New York makes such items very difficult to get through myriad regulations.
There are few things as inherently defensive in nature as pepper spray. Yet it turns out there are several states that have the same types of laws in place, including Illinois, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Wisconsin and New Jersey. This list also includes cities such as Baltimore, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia — all of which have high rates of violent crimes being committed by men and yet leave their women in challenging situations to protect themselves.
Because again, pepper spray is not only inherently defensive, it is largely purchased and carried by women for self-defense. And yet the loudest paragons of the #MeToo movement put up major roadblocks for women to obtain such basic self-defense.
So this talented, pretty young woman moving to NYC is completely at the mercy of men (armed or not) bent on evil, and on the response time of police — once they are called. Like so many other women in all these cities and states, she too easily can find herself at the mercy of powerful criminals, and her own government deprives her of the reasonable ability to defend herself.
There are many examples of vulnerable women in these cities turning to wasp spray and other items for defense, despite the bulky size of those canisters. That’s how desperate they are to be able to defend themselves. Of course by reporting this, places like New York may decide that only licensed pest control professionals can buy and operate wasp spray.
Even if you grant the best of intentions by the Democratic lawmakers running these states and cities, it’s almost as though they purposely ignore the most obvious weapon most men have on women: superior size and strength. If every weapon of every kind were magically removed from planet, most men would still have the ability to physically take advantage of most women at any time.
The leftist retort to this is the police. Well that thin blue line that stands between the bad guys and the rest of us is imperative and most of them do yeoman’s work. But they are definitionally not for individual self-defense unless there is a cop for each person. They are by necessity reactive. It’s what 911 is for. You call, they respond.
So the police cannot be the self-defense that women need, meaning most women are left defenseless in these cities and states.
The equalizers for women have always been weapons, from guns to mace to pepper spray. Yet these equalizers are either banned or made very difficult to obtain.
These items are not protected by the Second Amendment, so they can be — constitutionally, if foolishly — banned or made very difficult to obtain. Guns cannot be banned. But they can be made so difficult to obtain that they are practically speaking banned — for law-abiding residents.
That will be Part II: One man’s ultimately fruitless journey into the endless bowels of obtaining a gun permit in New York City.
Democrats hate all women.
Followed to their logical conclusion, all Leftist Policy inevitably leads to the rape and murder of White Women.
Every single one.
Unfortunately, he is right.
Technically, mace and pepper spray are not militia weapons.
But light machine guns are - and we can’t have them.
Anyone who wants you unarmed wants you harmed.
They want you to be hurt, killed and whatever. They want you to be eaten by a bear, gang raped and crippled.
“There are many examples of vulnerable women in these cities turning to wasp spray and other items for defense, despite the bulky size of those canisters.”
Using insecticides other than for intended use is a violation of Federal Law. Every insecticide label carries the following warning:
“It is a violation of Federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its labeling.”
Many insecticides are deadly to humans in high enough concentrations. Of course it will take a while to kill a human cockroach, and they’ll probably live to sue the victim.
The Demorats need to ban guns. One can’t deprive Harvey Weinstien of his fun against Rossanna Arquette and Rose McGowan. Not to mention the right of Weinstein’s critic Schneiderman to punch and strangle his ...big itches, Can you imagine a woman pulling out a gun on the New York Atty. General? Who do these ho’s think they are? Americans with constitutional rights? Perish the thought.
God created men, and Samuel Colt made them equal.
The simple fact is that men have substantially greater upper-body strength than women, and are almost always better practiced at how to utilize that advantage. If you return the world to the pre-firearms state (if such was even possible), then you will also necessarily return it to a state in which women are very much at the mercy of men - and the larger and more aggressive the man, the more at his mercy they will be. That simply CANNOT be what women want, so logic would dictate...
...oh, yeah, that’s right. Never put logic and (most) women in the same thought. Also, I made the mistake of thinking that I knew what women want...FFS, they don’t even know THEMSELVES what they want - or if they do, they change their minds somewhere between 15 seconds and 30 minutes later.
Yeah, nevermind.
Check your male privilege.
‘Cockroach’ spray should be OK, then, right?
Oh, yeah, I’m sure that they’re all just like Demi Moore in that absurd movie, G.I. Jane.
For sure, I wouldn’t want to get into a fight with SOME women...but, as a rule, they’ll get in a good shot or two, and then get knocked into the next county by some abusive guy...especially if guns suddenly ceased to exist and said abusive guy had much less to worry about.
Well, looking at the behavior of their politicians, they are just trying to remove any barriers to the full enjoyment of their favorite recreational pastimes.
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