Posted on 03/07/2013 4:14:59 PM PST by raptor22
Gun Control: As the Colorado legislature considers a ban on campus concealed carry, a woman testifying how she was raped in a "safe zone" 50 feet from a police station is told that armed defense is useless.
It didn't receive quite as much media coverage as Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke's plea for free contraceptives before Congress but on Monday a young woman named Amanda Collins mustered the courage to testify before a Colorado legislative committee on that state's proposed gun ban legislation.
Collins was raped at gunpoint in a University of Nevada-Reno parking garage in October 2007. Nevada law prohibited her from carrying a gun on the campus, but her attacker had one. She was raped 50 feet away from the campus police department office. Her attacker was James Biela, a serial rapist who raped two other women and murdered another.
He attacked her at gunpoint in a gun-free zone. At the time of the attack, Collins had a concealed weapons permit but not her firearm due to university policies prohibiting carrying concealed weapons on campus. Just such a gun-free zone policy is why the Aurora, Colo., shooter chose the theater he did.
As she ended her compelling testimony, she asked the committee, "How does rendering me defenseless protect you against a violent crime?"
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This Coloradan has been thinking long and hard about Texas.
Here’s a point often missed by many. More women can better use an adjustable butt stock on an AR-15, because more often, they require a shorter length of pull. Women are more cheated out of effective self-defense by so-called assault weapons bans. Semi-automatic defense rifles with pistol grips, BTW, have a shorter length of pull than hunting rifles (shorter reach to the hand guard).
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“She’d have to pay a rapist and even then...”
The rapist would claim emotional trauma and sue.
Absolutely. I am sure this gun control crap will have a big backlash.
"November 6, 2012 General election candidates:
Democratic Party (United States) Evie Hudak: 35,664
Republican Party Lang Sias: 35,080
Libertarian Party Lloyd A. Sweeny: 5,104 "
Another villain in all this is, now Senate President, John Morse.
2010 election results:
John Morse (D) 13,866
Owen Hill (R) 13,526
Douglas W. Randall (L) 1,320
Being mostly a libertarian myself, it's rather painful to me to notice that but for the Libertarian candidates, both Hudak and Morse would likely have lost.
I'm still a libertarian, but there are purists who let perfection be the enemy of the good enough -- both ended up losing, and what we were left with was just bad.
Not if she had shot him first.
And that would have ended his serial rape spree and saved the taxpayers plenty of money.
The senator is a moron I sure hope his security personal are not armed.
She's a moron. Martial arts only work if you are in physical contact with the attacker. Firearms work from a distance. Good point about ending his career.
It’s been a long week.
Not to mention proudly posting comments on threads without reading them for seven years and counting.
:)
Nah. Sometimes even when I read it, I more skim it and miss pertinent details.
We’ll just leave it that politician = moron unless otherwise stated.
Except for the nit that use of firearms is a martial art.
What would you expect from a Democrat?
Logic?
She is a commie Rat traitor.
Yes...Thank you all you stupid Libertarians....
Take two morning after pills and put some ice on it in the morning.
The Democrats’ War on Women continues.
Yeah, that’s what everyone thinks when they hear the term ‘martial arts.’ /s
We should thank the CO GOPe too for being the Progressive-Lite Party.
“We are your government; we are here to help you.”
We brought a body bag that is just your size.
So are the people in his district that voted for this waste of air...
I would have just as much contempt for them as I do for this thing...
But hey, they made their bed, now ya gotta lie in it...Deal with it...Don’t come cryin’ to the rest of us if it doesn’t work out...
Way to go Libertarians!!! /sarc
Should have thought this one through instead of firing up and smoking that last bowl...
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