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Showing Original Post only (View all)Las Vegas Republican calls for ‘hot little girls’ to be armed to stop campus rapes [View all]
A Republican politician sponsoring legislation to allow guns on campuses has caused outrage by arguing rapists would be deterred if 'young, hot little...
A female Republican politician sponsoring legislation to allow guns on campuses has caused outrage by arguing that university rapists would be deterred "if these young, hot little girls had a firearm."
Michele Fiore, a conservative assemblywoman from Las Vegas, has introduced a bill allowing people with concealed weapons permits to carry firearms at universities in Nevada one of 10 states in the gun-friendly American West and South where such legislation has been tabled.
"If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them," she told The New York Times. "The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head."
Marilyn Kirkpatrick,the leader of the state's Democrat minority, said: "It is beyond unfortunate that Michele Fiore's response to sexual assault on our campuses is a Rambo-like mentality.To claim that sexual assault is only happening to 'young, hot little girls' and that arming people can alleviate this problem is a false narrative."
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/las-vegas-republican-calls-for-hot-little-girls-to-be-armed-to-stop-campus-rapes/
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Las Vegas Republican calls for ‘hot little girls’ to be armed to stop campus rapes [View all]
DonViejo
Feb 2015
OP
The mind boggles. Should toddlers be given guns to ward off pedophiles?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2015
#1
And yet, anyone seriously suggesting such a thing would be laughed out of the room
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#34
So you support the drug war, with its attending costs both in money and human lives.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#44
Unless all rapes involve "completely drunk" females your argument is specious (and sexist).
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#50
Ah, so you're arguing from the 'once is too much' for people being raped, but not
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Feb 2015
#51
I think alcohol prohibition was a glaring, first tier example of a ban that DID NOT work.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#41
exactly, they are arguing against all laws now. Because this topic has no context....
bettyellen
Feb 2015
#67
Well maybe you should do some research. Lawrence v. Texas, a fairly important SCOTUS decision.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#91
Yes, I should have gone ahead and made those exceptions plain early on
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Feb 2015
#96
Look, man. I've got alcoholism all over my family tree like a bad set of christmas lights.
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2015
#99
If the prohibition is lifted you don't really have much say in the matter.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#62
A meaningless pledge that has no legal enforcement. It's pathetically comical, actually.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#65
Just like the RWers that refuse to treat children, except you are paid in advance.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#68
When someone holds their prejudices higher than the inherent rights of innocent people and then
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#75
You're hiding behind accusations of lying but I'm curious to know how you imagine a paid alleged
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#80
Nobody is making you own a gun just as my using birth control doesn't diminish someone else's
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#82
You have neither the authority nor the ability to enforce your personal prejudices.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2015
#84
Why bother responding to the talk of idiots, just let them keep on talking.
Fred Sanders
Feb 2015
#5
Yep, her solution is to add another level of violence into the scenario. How pathetic, she is.
RKP5637
Feb 2015
#63
I don't think this bill would affect the spaces where the partying goes on: the bill
petronius
Feb 2015
#92
You do know that the police have no legal obligation to protect you, personally, right?
X_Digger
Feb 2015
#37
Most college rape is date or acquaintance rape. In other words it's a guy a woman is already
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#107
Of course you can disagree, but your argument isn't producing the results you want.
procon
Feb 2015
#110
Nope, I'm not. You are passive-aggressively defending the call for moar gunz
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#111
Exactly what I thought. What you wrote is simply an indirect support of guns. Nt
stevenleser
Feb 2015
#113
WTF! Guns, guns, guns are always the solution. Is that all they can some up with,
RKP5637
Feb 2015
#61
Just another right wing republican trying to force her gundamentalist religion on others.
stone space
Feb 2015
#73