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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Yep, just keep repeating that mantra.
Bang! (mantra) Bang! (mantra) Bang! (etc)
the left is using pure marketing and advertising companies.
we are arguing reason and logic.
the left is using madison avenue psychologic to sell.
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.
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."
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.
Yep.
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