In Gifford’s world, dating women could forfeit your 2nd Amendment rights:
On September 12, TIME magazine ran a column by gun control proponent Gabby Giffords, in which she argued that gun control must be expanded for women’s sake.
Giffords’ starts the column by revisiting the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) under Bill Clinton. She says that law has been good–“annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by more than half” since its passage–but she does not think it goes far enough.
She wants a more stringent VAWA, one that expands gun control beyond marriage and into dating relationships. This would include new gun control laws for boyfriends, “partners,” etc. And as Breitbart News reported on July 30, it would mean new gun laws for stalkers.
Giffords says these “glaring loopholes” need to be closed for women’s sake now.
On August 14, 2013, Breitbart News cited statistics from Chicago to show that gun control laws do not necessarily make the vulnerable less vulnerable. In 2011, there were 441 murders in Chicago, 10 percent of which were women. In 2012 there were 512 murders, and again, 10 percent of those were women. That’s nearly 100 women gun downed in two years in one of the most strictly governed gun control cities in the world.
On top of this, The New York Times cited approximately “1,400” sexual assaults in Chicago in 2010 alone.
Gun control did not spare these women from violence, nor did it spare them death in 100 cases, but it certainly did empower those with criminal intent.
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Source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/13/Gabby-Giffords-Gun-Control-For-Women-s-Sake-Now
Liberals are such hypocrites, all the time they’re telling us that women are equal to men, as strong as men, that they belong in the military, in armed combat (we agree there), that anything a man can do a woman can do it better… Yet as you see here, women need to be “protect it.” They’re too useless to protect themselves like a man does, with a gun. At least that’s the view Giffords is promoting.
And by the way, how come every time we hear “domestic violence” is always about men beating women.
Men can be victims to, you know.
“… she used to regularly scream at me and hit me, but when I needed stitches in my head after she had attacked me with a knife while drunk, I had to leave.” (Anon)
“I told my colleagues that I had scratched myself during the night due to a change in washing powder – actually it was my wife who did it, but I couldn’t tell them that.” (Anon)
“After Betty had threatened me with a knife on more than one occasion, and I’d successfully ducked missiles, she finally got her aim right one morning and hit me with a bowl about one centimetre from my eye. I turned up to work that morning with blood-stained clothing and had to explain my fragile situation.”
Source: http://www.hiddenhurt.co.uk/male_victims_of_domestic_violence.html
Source: http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/help-for-battered-men
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Wife-beater husband bludgeoned to death by father-in-law in India
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Sorry Giffords, laws like VAWA don’t protect anyone. A gun is protection, even a knife or a baseball bat is protection (although not as great as a gun). Women don’t need stupid laws or stupid gun-tootin’ gun control advocates like you, they need gun-friendly laws that allow them to do what the State can’t do, fight back.