Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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The Right to Bear Arms ... on Campus

I like the right to bear arms.  I will grudgingly agree that some places, such as bars, are places where guns probably shouldn't be.  This bill proposes allowing guns on college campuses.  I think that's a great idea.  It would make school shootings briefer, because one of the armed students or teachers might manage to take out the shooter.  And it might help discourage rape, too.
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ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

March 22 2011, 03:05:41 UTC 10 years ago

>> And these are the actual choices women have here.<<

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.
cissa

Re: Well...

cissa

March 22 2011, 03:36:26 UTC 10 years ago

OK, I'll grant you that it should be our prerogative to choose- considering that we might have a split second or so to make a choice that either way might kill us or cause the rest of our lives to be trashed.

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.

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