Posted on 01/27/2014 7:49:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Women should be allowed to carry concealed firearms on college campuses. Instead, President Obama favors Gun Free Zones, which endanger women’s health.
One in five female college students are sexually assaulted or raped according to a new report issued last week by the White House Council on Women and Girls. Declaring that sexual assault “affects every one of us,” Obama picked up his pen and signed a piece of paper (a “memorandum”) calling for the creation of a campus rape response task force.
Sure, this token effort could help Obama’s party appeal to female voters during a midterm election year. Or, Obama’s memorandum could give 2016 Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton (shhhhh, nobody knows!) something to strut about as she tours the country promoting her “No Ceilings” project to bring abuses against women “out of the shadows.”
But what real good will a memorandum or initiative do if it doesn’t include arming women? Young women are sexually assaulted on college campuses in part because college campuses are “Gun Free Zones.”
An unscrupulous college student who is looking for a one night stand can easily take advantage of a drunk or high college student at a party. He knows that her sober friends or DD (designated driver) won’t be armed or able to protect her if he can get her alone for ten minutes.
Alternatively, a non-student sex offender could prowl college campuses looking for easy, unarmed targets. This is exactly what happened to Amanda Collins, a concealed carry permit holder, who was raped at gunpoint in a Gun Free Zone. Collins is a living testimony to the fact that Obama’s gun control policy renders women defenseless and more susceptible to sexual assault and rape. She told Fox News, “I was legislated into being a victim.”
During her senior year of college at the University of Nevada Reno in October of 2007, Collins was walking back to her vehicle in a parking garage after a night class. She told Fox News that she was: “less than 100 feet away from the campus police office” and parked on same level of the parking lot where the police parked their cruisers. Even so, the police were not close enough to help Collins that night; she needed her own gun.
Collins’ attacker specifically went to a place where he knew young women would be unarmed, much like the shooter Adam Landza did in the Newtown tragedy. So, while Collins was permitted to carry and trained in self-defense with a firearm, she was unable to carry her firearm where she needed it the most, her college campus.
According to the White House’s recent report, the men who commit sexual assault often take more than one victim. The report referenced a study showing that among the male college students who admitted to attempted rape, 63 percent confessed to an average of six rapes. While only 7 percent of college males admitted to attempted rape, the majority were serial offenders. This subset of serially violent men is clearly bereft of morals or respect for the law. Thus, they will only be stopped by a threat stronger than a law scrolled on a piece of paper. Serial sex offenders need the threat of lethal force.
Whether the perpetrators of sexual assault are college students or not, they appear to be mentally unstable men who have a thirst for committing repeat violence. For example, the man who attacked Collins raped her at gunpoint and then continued to hurt more women: he kidnapped and raped a second woman and then raped and murdered a third woman.
When Fox’s Megyn Kelly asked Collins: “Why do you believe that if you had a firearm on you at that time that you may have prevented the rape?” Collins responded: “To be honest, with the way I was grabbed [from behind and then her attacker placed a gun to her temple], I don’t think I would have been able to prevent my attack from starting but … had I had been carrying that night … I know at some point during my attack I would have been able to stop my attack in progress.”
Collins testified against CO Bill (HB 1226) that would have banned concealed carry weapons—even by permit holders—on public college campuses including stadiums or arenas used by public campuses. During the her testimony, CO State Sen. Evie Hudak (D) told Collins: “…statistics are not on your side, even if you had had a gun…for every one woman who used a handgun to kill someone in self-defense, eighty-three were murdered by them.”
Collins responded: “Respectfully, Senator, you weren’t there. I know without a doubt in my mind, at some point I would have been able to stop my attack by using my firearm. He already had a weapon of his own. He didn’t need mine.”
It’s time for liberals like Obama who feign to help women fight against sexual abuse to start defending women’s God-given, Second Amendment right to bear arms and carry concealed. Abolish Gun Free Zones and support conceal carry permits on campus and we’ll have fewer sexual assaults.
Split second decisions should be based on a life time of study.
Hell no.
All part of the REAL war on women by Democrats.
Of course, given that 73% of rapists (like most criminals) are Democrats or would vote Democrat if given the chance, perhaps the Democrats are just playing to their base.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/31/Study-Most-Convicts-Vote-Democrat
Should my bride model if for the forum????
That was my first though as well.
But upon consideration, I'm all for it.
Once we've established that women have the absolute right to have the means to defend themselves, it's only a baby step to enfranchise men!
Ooooo! I missed a couple steps. Thanks!
Ah. The Flashbang holster.
My Wife has one, but prefers to carry in her Old Faithful hip OWB holster.
The Flashbang was just too much of a pain for her to use.
She carries the Springfield XDs in .45 ACP.
purely for scientific research purposes...
“Women, but not men. That’s kinda stupid”
I’m a woman and exceptions like these make me crazy. In my concealed weapons class we were told that men basically have to be near death before they can defend themselves but women have a wide margin since they are weaker than their attacker.
Any person, male or female, should have the right to defend themselves without worrying how close to death they actually are.
Yes, the flashbang. I’m thinking this holster is more of an image thing…..you know, something hot about a good looking woman who packs……
Hence the name flash-bang…..
I'd like to see the source of those numbers, complete with said statistical analysis as to how it was so robust as to justify two significant figures.
I have ‘arrived’ at the age where my self flotation devices make for good ‘hiding’ spots for carrying a velcro type wrap around belt and holster.
At present I am able to carry under my ‘left useless mass’ with no one being the wiser, the butt basically stays under the pocket and with pad and pen in pocket, very nicely concealed AND unbutton one button and you are at the piece almost immediately..
And with the SR 38sp hammerless, absolutely NO snags while drawing.
Of course if I were to wear a ‘Bro’ it wouldn’t fit as snug.
Still… it amounts to the same thing.
The murder rate in DC is 59/100,000. Across the river in Virginia it is 1.6/100,000.
I believe that was exactly the point. When the rapists couldn’t tell an easy victim from an armed one, the rate dropped.
Oh great! Then once a month, all guys run scared!!
this is bullsh1t.
self defense rights are not about gender-privileges.
we can also point that men get into more altercations than women, therefore, men ought to be armed to be able to defend themselves from attack.
either everyone carries or nobody does.
i don’t want to be disarmed with a bunch of scared, inexperienced over-reacting women pulling out guns with very light trigger safeties.
for some that’s most or all of the month.
there are plenty of guys who qualify. older. disabled. dealing with an injury. legally blind without glasses. small. if they are outnumbered. if they are ambushed/attacked by surprise.
all of these are disparity of force issues. that allow a victim to use potentially greater force than what their attacker may have/may have used.
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