Fantasy VS Reality: Women Protecting Themselves With Guns, Feminists Call It Absurd

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

redstate
 July 16, 2016 by Brandon Morse

http://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2016/07/16/fantasy-vs-reality-women-protecting-guns-feminists-calling-absurd/

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The article references the following facts attributed to GOA:

https://www.gunowners.org/wv26.htm

First, a 1989 study (Furby, Journal of Interpersonal Violence) found that both male and female survey respondents judged a gun to be the most effective means that a potential rape victim could use to fend off the assault. Rape "experts" considered it a close second, after eye-gouging.

Second, raw data from the 1979-1985 installments of the Justice Department's annual National Crime Victim Survey show that when a woman resists a stranger rape with a gun, the probability of completion was 0.1 percent and of victim injury 0.0 percent, compared to 31 percent and 40 percent, respectively, for all stranger rapes (Kleck, Social Problems, 1990).

Third, a recent paper (Southwick, Journal of Criminal Justice, 2000) analyzed victim resistance to violent crimes generally, with robbery, aggravated assault and rape considered together. Women who resisted with a gun were 2.5 times more likely to escape without injury than those who did not resist and 4 times more likely to escape uninjured than those who resisted with any means other than a gun. Similarly, their property losses in a robbery were reduced more than six-fold and almost three-fold, respectively, compared to the other categories of resistance strategy.

Fourth, we have two studies in the last 20 years that directly address the outcomes of women who resist attempted rape with a weapon. (Lizotte, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1986; Kleck, Social Problems, 1990.) The former concludes, "Further, women who resist rape with a gun or knife dramatically decrease their probability of completion." (Lizotte did not analyze victim injuries apart from the rape itself.) The latter concludes that "resistance with a gun or knife is the most effective form of resistance for preventing completion of a rape"; this is accomplished "without creating any significant additional risk of other injury."

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But, of course liberals believe that the best way for a woman to defend herself is "vomiting and urinating" on herself.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/colorado-college-advises-students-to-urinate-vomit-to-stop-rapists/

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And in Sweden, the preferred method for a woman to defend herself is to arm herself with a wristband which read “don’t touch me” in Swedish.

“By wearing these wristbands, young women will be able to make a stand. No one should have to accept sexual molestation. So do not grope,"  Police Chief Dan Eliasson said, according to the press release.

 

[txradioguy]

I'm still trying to figure out how Feminists can talk about "Female empowerment"...but at the same time decry the very things that gives women power to protect themselves aganist an attacker.

The only thing I can come up with is that they need the self perpetuating cycle of victim hood to keep their grief racket going.