Rape Survivor Tells Congress Gun Control Left Her Helpless

By Tom Knighton

I’ve heard people sometimes call gun control regulations “victim-disarmament laws” and for very good reason. As we’ve said many times, bad guys don’t follow gun laws. If they did, they’d probably follow all the other laws as well and not be bad guys. It’s just a simple fact.

But gun laws do impact the good guys.

Right now, the House of Representatives is hearing testimony surrounding guns as they plan to ram through new gun control regulations regardless of what they hear in the testimony.

That doesn’t mean they won’t be forced to hear some unpleasant things, though. Like how gun control rendered a rape victim helpless.

Savannah Lindquist was one of the witnesses asked to testify and she was in the minority of speakers in asserting that gun control could leave crime victims helpless — just as she was when she was raped on a gun-free-zone campus in Virginia.

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Linquist, 24, shared that she believes gun control laws may not only benefit criminals but fail to stop mass shootings or save lives.

“I was living my dream,” Lindquist, 24, said. “I had just begun my senior year of college. I was at my dream school with my dream major. I loved my …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms