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Colorado Dem To Rape Survivor At Gun Hearing: “Statistics Aren’t On Your Side”
Dana Loesch Radio ^ | March 5, 2013 | Dana Loesch

Posted on 03/05/2013 6:41:51 AM PST by george76

During the hearing for the state’s proposed college campus gun ban, rape survivor Amanda Collins bravely shared her story of survival.

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who explained how she wished she’d had a firearm to defend herself from her rapist. Said Collins:

“As I live with the memory, weighted with the question of my life: ‘What would have been different if I had been carrying the weapon I was licensed to carry that night?’ I would like to leave you with a question: ‘How does rendering me defenseless protect you against a violent crime?’”

Hudak conflated martial arts with firearm defense without realizing that one of these tactics requires close contact with an attacker, a physical deflection. Hudak’s prejudiced characterization of women and firearms is reminiscent of Colorado Rep. Joe Salazar’s sexist remark that women were simply too hysterical to own firearms.

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Hudak’s argument that a woman could be disarmed and her firearm used on her flies in the face of FBI crime statistics and presupposes that the woman won’t fire and/or is incapable of properly using a firearm. See, Amanda Collins was overpowered, disarmed, and left to be a victim. By Nevada lawmakers. Not her rapist. Just what Hudak said would happen, though not exactly.

Quite a dangerous thing to disarm women and create more rape victims based on a dangerous, baseless assumption.

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To: A Navy Vet

Yep, just keep repeating that mantra.

Bang! (mantra) Bang! (mantra) Bang! (etc)


61 posted on 03/05/2013 12:43:11 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Casie

the left is using pure marketing and advertising companies.

we are arguing reason and logic.

the left is using madison avenue psychologic to sell.


62 posted on 03/05/2013 1:32:09 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: A Navy Vet

when a politician says something this boneheaded, I wonder if this is because he attacked someone in the past OR

he figures if he attacks someone in the future he needs a disarmed woman.


63 posted on 03/05/2013 1:44:34 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Girlene
I just want to say, statistics are not on your side, even if you had had a gun. You said that you were a martial arts student, I mean person, experience in taekwondo, and yet because this individual was so large and was able to overcome you even with your skills, and chances are that if you had had a gun, then he would have been able to get than from you and possibly use it against you …”

What's that one rule of self protection: "If a perp is going to kill you with your own gun it will be by beating you to death with it because you would have already emptied it into said perp."

64 posted on 03/05/2013 3:55:52 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: A Navy Vet; Neil E. Wright; Travis McGee

Navy:

All well and good, and it’s great that you have aplan.

But it doesn’t help you when you’re out in “the world” and away from home; the point of my comment was that no matter what these liberal d-bags try to pass, you need to be armed and prepared to do the vulgar brawl to protect your life.

Which goes to my other point - if you’re not, you’re endangering your family in the event you get killed.

If we’re to call ourselves Free People, we should behave, live, and act like Free People, regardless of what the liberal fascisti try to do.


65 posted on 03/05/2013 4:19:18 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: hattend

Yep.


66 posted on 03/05/2013 7:11:27 PM PST by Girlene
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