Gun Control Proponent: Women Too Weak to Carry Guns for Self-Defense

By Patriot Outdoor News

She said, “Women are not physically powerful like men are. A gun could easily be turned on the woman, and it is frequently.”

During the August 23 2015 airing of Third Rail on Al Jazeera, the executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, Leah Gunn Barrett, suggested women are too weak to be allowed to carry guns for self-defense on college campuses.

She made this suggestion in the face of Florida state Representative Rehwinkel Vasilinda (D-9th), although Vasilinda was the victim of “attempted rape” while in college – an “attempted rape” that she was able to stop by grabbing the gun her father had given her for self-defense.

Vasilinda made clear she wants to see Florida pass laws opening the door for women on campuses today to be similarly armed for self-defense.

Barrett responded to Vasilinda by claiming college campuses are “some of the safest places in the nation” and asking why we “would want to change that” by allowing law-abiding women to carry guns for self-defense. Barrett then made clear that she would never allow her daughter, who is a sophomore in college, to attend a school where women and other law-abiding citizens are allowed to carry guns for self-defense.

Vasilinda countered, explaining …read more

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