It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Detroit Rape Edition

By Robert Farago

Some readers claim “It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use” is morally equivalent to anti-gunners’ agitprop. The reverse of “waving the bloody shirt” (i.e., using firearms-related suicide and homicide to promote gun control). I don’t think so. Exploiting a horrific attack to try to deny peaceable Americans their Constitutionally protected right to armed self-defense is profoundly amoral. Highlighting an incident where innocent life might have been protected by force of arms reinforces the life-and-death importance of their natural or God-given right to self-defense. Which brings us to this particular affront to human dignity [via nydailynews.com] . . .

A group of men raped two women in separate but similar encounters in Detroit’s west side as their male companions were stripped of their clothing and personal belongings, before being forced to watch, local reports said.

One of the latest assaults involved six men who cornered a 21-year-old woman and 22-year-old man late Thursday and ordered them into a secluded alley by gunpoint.

The pair had been walking together when they encountered the suspects at about 10 p.m. in the 13000 block of West McNichols Road, according to authorities.

“The male victim was forced to watch …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns