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To: Red in Blue PA

“From your handle, sounds as though you live in LA. If you are attacked at gunpoint, but because living in LA you cannot defend yourself with a gun and a concealed weapons permit, we could always say, “ah well, he had it coming for living there”. “

I’ve made plenty of bad decisions and paid a pretty heavy price most of the time. And yes I do live in LA. But the difference is that if I went down to south LA (gangland central) and hung out there on a Friday night in the hood and got robbed at gun point, beat up and shot what would people here on this board say? Probably something to the effect of “what the heck was that idiot thinking?”. There would not be much sympathy for me. Same with her, you don’t go down to the hood and not expect something bad to happen. That’s what she did and that’s what happens when you do that. So yes I see how it works, do you?


415 posted on 02/16/2011 5:52:33 PM PST by trapped_in_LA
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To: trapped_in_LA

We have to be realistic in dealing with other parts of the world. In much of the world, women are treated very differently than they are in more “civilized” dare I say, parts of the world.

And the other main point is that we were sending reporters into a mob; into a revolution in progress. Even some men reporters were roughed up and attacked in different ways.

Unfortunately, women are especially prone to sexual assaults, and in a mob situation in a place which has no real respect for women, she was in a very unsafe place.


423 posted on 02/16/2011 8:47:59 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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