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Yeah, as a woman, I'd be real hesitant about taking a job out there, or any place thats more wild-west in nature (very few people and very lax regulation of any laws) and I'd sure as hell take gun tactical training before going, and always have a firearm on me.
You have to fly through New Zealand so I'm guessing no guns are allowed.
I'm sure guns are flying through no problem, just not in your handbag. Most likely in a checked bag and probably requiring a gun license.
But that narrative doesn't support the anti gun ideology. they want everyone disarmed so the strong can once again shuffle the weak in any direction they choose. it makes them so mad that they have to think twice about sexual assault or else they get blown away. its like a condom, those convincing you that you don't need one, means you really really need one.
edit: so mad 😎
triple digit mad lets fucking Goooooo! 🤣
Your downvotes mean you like women undefended and unprotected. that's kinda sorta a bunch fucked up. please find peace in your lives where you aren't afraid of guns because you just want to rape unopposed.
what's the slow down? Let's hit 4 digi mad!
Oh yes, how they shuffle the weak in the UK and Australia. Just weak people being shuffled around by the strong all over the place.
I'm really trying to use the UK and Australia as places where people have as much freedom as they do in the US but no guns. Or do you think they're totalitarian police states or something?
Maybe instead of arming women to stop men from raping them, we start teaching our men that masculinity does not equal sex and sex does not equal power?
We do teach that. Men (and women) who rape know raping is wrong and still do it anyway.
Well, again, women are not being raped right and left in the UK and Australia. So maybe that's not the only solution.
Please show me the difference between rape stats in the US and the UK. And don't tell me to look it up for myself, that's your job.
If UK and Australia have just as bad rape problems as the rest of the world and the rest of the world includes the U.S., where lots of women own guns, that doesn't sound like a solution.
Psycho
guns are much more likely to be used to commit sexual violence than stop sexual violence. this entire premise is fucked up.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/arms-control/gun-violence/
https://jaapl.org/content/early/2020/02/05/JAAPL.003929-20
https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/policy-areas/who-can-have-a-gun/domestic-violence-firearms/
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/guns-and-violence-against-women/
The impact of gun violence against women goes beyond fatal encounters. A 2016 study found that nearly 1 million women alive at that time had been shot by an intimate partner, and 4.5 million women had been threatened with a firearm.4 Firearms have long been used as a tool of power and control to instill fear and inflict abuse on women—with women of color, people in the LGBTQ community, and women with disabilities being disproportionately affected.5
https://everytownresearch.org/report/guns-and-violence-against-women-americas-uniquely-lethal-intimate-partner-violence-problem/
I get that you think you're some righteous crusader for women's safety but the more guns solution hasn't worked - there are more guns than people in the US; how many more guns do we need until you admit your hypothesis is wrong? What's the number, 500 million?
20 per person? Keep in mind, the more guns there are in the population, the more domestic abusers will use them to intimidate and violate their victims. So when do we get to safety through guns?
Make it make sense.
so if it's human nature to murder, we should make sure more people have access to easily available tools with which to murder people?
come on, you're half way there....
Uhhh, please clarify. How to make nature kill and why you say you are ill?
Who's mad again? Lol
Not the ranter in favor of dead children tho
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Here to derail any meaningful conversation on any topic and make it all about his pet political issue, he'll topple you with his signature move, The Forum Slide, where in one post he'll turn any discussion into a shit-flinging flame war where everyone will forget what they were originally talking about in the first place!
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Ah yes, the idea that mass shootings are aided by guns is just unthinkable
All those school knifings where 15 children leave in body bags -- they're just swept under the rug by the mAiNsTrEaM mEDiA
And don't you cite the like one or two of those that have ever happened back in 1931. We both know that psychopaths love the idea of killing a dozen people in a few seconds and the only way to do that is with guns or explosives.
Hmm, interesting how you accidentally pointed out that school shootings usually don't involve explosives. It's almost like banning has a non zero impact or something
They get mad when reality disagrees with them. Big mad. As in to say most of the time
LOL. no, it doesnt.
I agree. I'm glad to have one.
She specifically said “training”, which on its own immediately goes against whatever insane ideology you’re selling.