Are ‘Zero Tolerance Zones’ The Alternative To Campus Carry?
USA Today seems to think so. And we all know that criminals obey zoning restrictions…
AWR Hawkins writes at Ammoland:
USA Today Wants Defenseless ‘Zero-Tolerance’, Not Campus Carry
Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- USA Today joined ranks with other anti-gun voices, saying women shouldn’t be allowed to carry guns on campus for self-defense.
USA Today specifically claimed that “zero-tolerance” polices are a better way to halt sexual assaults. They suggest this is so because allowing women to carry guns actually puts women in greater danger. They also suggest that opening the door to concealed carry holders opens the door to criminals carrying guns on campus.
In other words, criminals are currently leaving their guns at home, waiting for the gun-free policies to change before they bring firearms along for the commission for a crime.
USA Today echoed arguments presented by Salon, claiming that allowing women to carry guns on campus would only increase the danger women face. They cite anti-Second Amendment proponent Alexandra Brodsky who says, “Guns won’t stop campus rape violence. In fact, they will put more students at risk.”
To back up this claim, USA Today links to an Everytown for Gun Safety claim ( http://tiny.cc/xw9yux ) that the “mere presence” of gun in a situation where a women may be assaulted increases her chances of death by “500 percent.” They do not cite any figures to explain the risk of death or injury unarmed women face when an armed assailant kicks in the door to their residence or abducts them in a parking lot.
Comments
Rather than being allowed to defend ourselves, we should voluntarily live in prisons, because prisons are such safe places.
And again the gun-grabbers try to convince us that a woman raped, strangled, and left dead in an alley is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet hole.
And I have to wonder where Little Mikey Bloomberg’s people got that ludicrous “500 percent” figure. Pulled from a certain bodily orifice, no doubt.
“Gun free zones” on campuses should be relegated to small isolated, fenced in zones, much like the “free speech zones” that liberals favor. Then they can go in there and feel all warm and safe! (I would call them uteruses, but liberals have made those quite unsafe with their abortion enthusiasm and support…)
Wasn’t it the same ilk that suggests the best rape prevention strategy is for women to wet their pants when confronted by a rapist? How about women whip out a .45 and make the wanna be rapist wet his pants instead!