Here's an article that touches on the rape victim issue.
Obama to Rape Victim: You Probably Won't Be Able To Use a Gun To Stop Your Own Rape Anyway | Daily Wire
President Obama would rather disarm Americans than allow them to fight their rapists. That’s the takeaway message from a stunning exchange at Thursday night’s gun control townhall event on CNN. Kimberly Corban, a 2006 rape survivor, asked Obama why he wanted to crack down on guns when women can use guns to protect themselves from rapists:
After pattering on about his sympathy for Corban and his unearned and patronizing pride for her – no tears for her rape, notably – Obama denied that any of his actions would make it more difficult for her to obtain a weapon. He completely ignored that he, like other Democrats, fights concealed carry weapons permits at every turn. Then he got to his real point: women don’t deserve guns, because they are incapable of defending themselves:
So, just to be clear, the President of the United States told a rape victim that she doesn’t need a firearm in the home because she probably won’t be able to defend herself from a rapist anyway, and one of her kids might shoot himself.
There’s that famed Obama sensitivity at work!
First off, as the Centers for Disease Control has reported, “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals to more than 3 million per year, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.” Second, the chances of your child being killed in the home by a gun accidentally are about the same as the chances your child will drown in a bathtub. And Americans are approximately 51 times more likely to die of accidental poisoning than accidental shooting.
Beyond all of that, the morality of depriving a woman of her one shot to prevent her own rape because you doubt whether she is responsible enough to hide her gun from her toddler is mind-bogglingly patronizing and patriarchal. Obama can’t pretend sympathy for a rape victim, then suggest she shouldn’t even have a gun in the home, let alone in the street, to stop her own victimization.
The left’s myopic focus on guns rather than villains has costs. Those costs are borne by the victims of villains who target those who can’t defend themselves
Obama to Rape Victim: You Probably Won't Be Able To Use a Gun To Stop Your Own Rape Anyway | Daily Wire
President Obama would rather disarm Americans than allow them to fight their rapists. That’s the takeaway message from a stunning exchange at Thursday night’s gun control townhall event on CNN. Kimberly Corban, a 2006 rape survivor, asked Obama why he wanted to crack down on guns when women can use guns to protect themselves from rapists:
After pattering on about his sympathy for Corban and his unearned and patronizing pride for her – no tears for her rape, notably – Obama denied that any of his actions would make it more difficult for her to obtain a weapon. He completely ignored that he, like other Democrats, fights concealed carry weapons permits at every turn. Then he got to his real point: women don’t deserve guns, because they are incapable of defending themselves:
So, just to be clear, the President of the United States told a rape victim that she doesn’t need a firearm in the home because she probably won’t be able to defend herself from a rapist anyway, and one of her kids might shoot himself.
There’s that famed Obama sensitivity at work!
First off, as the Centers for Disease Control has reported, “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals to more than 3 million per year, in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.” Second, the chances of your child being killed in the home by a gun accidentally are about the same as the chances your child will drown in a bathtub. And Americans are approximately 51 times more likely to die of accidental poisoning than accidental shooting.
Beyond all of that, the morality of depriving a woman of her one shot to prevent her own rape because you doubt whether she is responsible enough to hide her gun from her toddler is mind-bogglingly patronizing and patriarchal. Obama can’t pretend sympathy for a rape victim, then suggest she shouldn’t even have a gun in the home, let alone in the street, to stop her own victimization.
The left’s myopic focus on guns rather than villains has costs. Those costs are borne by the victims of villains who target those who can’t defend themselves
