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In reply to the discussion: Las Vegas Republican calls for ‘hot little girls’ to be armed to stop campus rapes [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)16. Actually, I think they're mostly drunk or drugged.
Rapes occurring on campuses aren't, by and large, 'strangers jumping out of bushes and grabbing women'. They're women being assaulted when they've been incapacitated with alcohol or other drugs, mostly. In which case 'being armed' isn't going to do a damn thing, except maybe let their weapons be stolen while they're unconscious.
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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