[TheWastelander]

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http://www.salon.com/2015/02/28/if_only_...mpus_rape/

GOP’s bizarre, lethal solution to the campus rape crisis
Republican lawmakers are trying to loosen gun regulations in schools across the country. It's a recipe for disaster

ANDREA FLYNN, NEXT NEW DEAL

Two years ago, Republican leaders released a post-mortem analysis of the 2012 election in an effort to better understand how they lost the single woman’s vote by 36 percent. The 100-page report recommended that GOP lawmakers do a better job listening to female voters, remind them of the party’s “historical role in advancing the women’s rights movement,” and fight against the “so-called War on Women.” Look no further than recent GOP-led efforts to expand gun rights on college campuses under the guise of preventing campus sexual assault as evidence that conservative lawmakers have failed to take their own advice.

Today, lawmakers in at least 14 states are pushing forward measures that would loosen gun regulations on college campuses. In the last few days a number of them have seized upon the growing public outcry over campus sexual assault to argue that carrying a gun would prevent women from being raped. (So far they’ve been silent on how we might prevent young men – who, of course, would also be allowed to carry a gun – from attempting to rape women in the first place.)

Republican Assemblywoman Michele Fiore of Nevada recently told The New York Times: “If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them. The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.” (Really? Hot little girls?) And as the Times highlighted, Florida Representative Dennis Baxley jumped on the “stop campus rape” bandwagon recently when he successfully lobbied for a bill that would allow students to carry loaded, concealed weapons. “If you’ve got a person that’s raped because you wouldn’t let them carry a firearm to defend themselves, I think you’re responsible,” he said.

Let’s be clear. People aren’t raped because they aren’t carrying firearms. They are raped because someone rapes them. What a sinister new twist on victim blaming. As if anything positive could come from adding loaded weapons to the already toxic mix of drugs, alcohol, masculine group think, and the rape culture endemic in college sports and Greek life on campuses around the country.

Feminist typists love to take things out of context and/or deliberately misconstrue them. In what world does Dennis Baxley telling fellow representatives and college administrators that someone being raped, because they prohibited them from carrying a firearm, constitute victim-blaming? This reminds me of that Twitter cunt Roosh highlighted who said "would you bang?" is a threat.

A commenter over at the Truth About Guns, johnb, also made a good point that should be thrown in their faces: "If Greek life & sports are part of rape culture then why did you contribute to the problem by going to a school that has them Andrea Flynn?"

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These lawmakers have appropriated the battle cry of students who are demanding more accountability from academic institutions to prevent and respond to campus sexual assault. It’s a vain attempt to advance their own conservative agenda of liberalizing gun laws. This is an NRA agenda, not a women’s rights agenda. According to Everytown for Gun Safety, each of the lawmakers who have supported such legislation has received an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA). They have enjoyed endorsements from the NRA during election years and some – including Fiore and Baxley – received campaign contributions from the organization.

These lawmakers are pointing to the demands of a handful of women who have survived sexual assault and are advocating for liberalized campus gun laws. The experiences of these students are real and deserve to be heard and considered as we debate how to make campuses safer. We must also recognize that these students are outliers. Surveys have shown that nearly 80 percent of college students say they would not feel safe if guns were allowed on campus, and according to the Times, 86 percent of women said they were opposed to having weapons on campus. And for good reason.

I'm willing to bet a few of those women were actually raped. Instead of whining about how we should "teach men not to rape" and carrying a mattress around, they're bravely getting out there in the face of a media who will try to destroy them for being pro-gun and saying they might've been able to prevent what happened to them had they been armed. This requires a level of personal sacrifice, going against the mainstream, and risk of ostracization that would keep fakers hiding in their hugboxes.

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Research shows that guns do not make women safer. In fact, just the opposite is true. Over the past 25 years, guns have accounted for more intimate partner homicides than all other weapons combined. In states that that require a background check for every handgun sale, 38 percent fewer women are shot to death by intimate partners. The presence of a gun in a domestic violence situation increases the risk of homicide for women by 500 percent. And women in the United States are 11 times more likely than women from other high-income countries to be murdered with a gun. Guns on college campuses would only make these statistics worse.

If the GOP wants to show they care about women – or at the very least care about their votes – this is just one of the realities they need to acknowledge. And they need to listen to the experiences of all women who have experienced sexual assault – like those who have created the powerful Know Your IX campaign – not just those who will help advance their NRA-sponsored agenda.

Listen and believe! The fact they want to combat regret sex with lawsuits and bureaucratic tyranny is proof positive that it's all a bunch of anti-male bullshit and politics, not an actual threat. If 1-in-5 women were actually being raped at school the government would turn every college campus into a heavily-monitored armed camp to try to stop it.

What a joke these people are.