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The Right to Bear Arms ... on Campus
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Doing Things on Time
Apparently people are bad at estimating how long things will take and then getting them done. We might want to stop calling it a disorder and just…
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Managed Retreat
I'm pleased to see someone else admitting that not all cities can stay where they are. This article gives several examples of how cities could adapt…
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Conformity
Here's an article about conformity and evil. Now, we know that most humans are contextual and that evil spreads readily. But it leaves out…
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Doing Things on Time
Apparently people are bad at estimating how long things will take and then getting them done. We might want to stop calling it a disorder and just…
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Managed Retreat
I'm pleased to see someone else admitting that not all cities can stay where they are. This article gives several examples of how cities could adapt…
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Conformity
Here's an article about conformity and evil. Now, we know that most humans are contextual and that evil spreads readily. But it leaves out…
Re: No...
March 22 2011, 01:58:44 UTC 10 years ago
Guns are not a good defense against rape. Considering that even when a rape has been videotaped and the tape played for a jury, the rapists generally get off (after the jury has seen that the victim was unconscious, protesting, etc.),- how the HELL does anyone claim that women would not be prosecuted for senseless violence against a man if she shot him because he was ABOUT to rape her? when they don't even believe that a videotape of a rape counts as evidence of rape?
So: shooting a potential rapist may prevent you from getting raped- but it will mean you will be criminally prosecuted for aggravated assault up to murder.
And if you shoot him AFTER he raped you- well, that's just vengeance IF it can be proved you were raped; the rape doesn't matter, because after it's over you should report it to the cops so they can put you through the wringer and fail to do anything at all to the rapist. If you do anything yourself you're a vigilante, and the cops et al. take a very dim view of anyone encroaching on their prerogatives, even (especially?) when they have no intention to do anything at all about it themselves.
I am not at all sure that being legally prosecuted (and potentially imprisoned) for criminal aggravated assault through murder is actually preferable to being raped. And these are the actual choices women have here.
Well...
March 22 2011, 03:05:41 UTC 10 years ago
That's exactly the point: actual choices women have. If campus bans guns but is full of men who think of women as walking vaginas, that removes one of a woman's choices in self-defense. Some women choose not to fight. Some women choose to fight, by hand or with mace or with a gun or with a brick. It should be HER CHOICE.
The fact that society often blames women for being raped, or punishes them for actions that distinguish them from doormats, is a separate issue. It does not incline me to disarm women.
Re: Well...
March 22 2011, 03:36:26 UTC 10 years ago
As i said, I'm applying for a gun license.
My issue is that a lot of people say that the solution to rape is arming women- and that might be true IF society took dangers that women face seriously, and did not penalize them for objecting to them. This is not now true. While the occasional aggressor may take pause if he realizes he could me maimed or killed- I think a LOT more women will pause rather than shoot first because they realize that society takes aggression against men very seriously indeed, and rape, domestic battery, etc. not seriously at all- meaning that self-defense on her part will be severely penalized. For the guy, if she doesn't maim or kill him, he knows that nothing else bad will happen.
Aggression against women is low-risk for men. Self-defense against men is high-risk for women. As long as that's the case, I don't see how anyone in conscience can argue that women ought to shoot men who attack them. OK, good to have the option rather than not having it- but it's not really a practical option.