Katie Pavlich News Editor, Townhall Feb 19, 2013 07:33 AM EST
As Leah reported yesterday, the Colorado State House passed four new gun control laws Monday. During debate about legislation eliminating concealed carry on campus, Colorado Democratic Rep. Joe Salazar argued that call boxes and whistles were sufficient enough to protect women from rape. Revealing Politics grabbed the video:
(video at link)
"There are some gender inequities on college campuses, this is true and universities have been faced with that situation for a long time. It's why we have call boxes, it’s why we have safe zones, that's why we have the whistles. Because you just don’t know who you’re gonna be shooting at. And you don’t know if you feel like you’re gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone’s been following you around or if you feel like you’re in trouble and when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop — pop a round at somebody.”
That's right ladies, this democratic man knows better than you when it comes to how you feel about maybe getting raped. You don't really know how you feel about that creep following you home after class and don't worry, a call box will save you. Also, the potential rapist will totally respect that you're in a "safe-zone" and leave you alone.
But Salazar's comments aren't far off the mark when it comes to liberal self defense policies on college campuses in Colorado. The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs has a similar policy for avoiding rape:
What To Do If You Are Attacked
These tips are designed to help you protect yourself on campus, in town, at your home, or while you travel. These are preventative tips and are designed to instruct you in crime prevention tactics.
Be realistic about your ability to protect yourself. Your instinct may be to scream, go ahead! It may startle your attacker and give you an opportunity to run away. Kick off your shoes if you have time and can't run in them. Don't take time to look back; just get away. If your life is in danger, passive resistance may be your best defense. Tell your attacker that you have a disease or are menstruating. Vomiting or urinating may also convince the attacker to leave you alone. Yelling, hitting or biting may give you a chance to escape, do it! Understand that some actions on your part might lead to more harm. Remember, every emergency situation is different. Only you can decide which action is most appropriate.
If your life is in danger, passive resistance may be your best defense.
I remember hearing a self-defense expert talking about women and their vulnerability years ago. He said one thing that stuck with me.
An attacker will try to move the woman from a location where others will notice the attack. This is the time when the woman needs to respond.
A second, more secluded location may be the site of her murder.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
You're right Palinista. That's exactly the opposite that defense training instructs. This message really isn't "you might not get killed " the message is "rapes not so bad, roll with it or at least pee youself".
Quote: Palinista wrote in post #3If your life is in danger, passive resistance may be your best defense.
I remember hearing a self-defense expert talking about women and their vulnerability years ago. He said one thing that stuck with me.
An attacker will try to move the woman from a location where others will notice the attack. This is the time when the woman needs to respond.
A second, more secluded location may be the site of her murder.
Exactly.
As I have told my wife, if someone tries to abduct her, she is to make that site her last stand and fight with everything she has to escape and/or kill the perp there.
If not, there will be two crime scenes, that of her kidnapping and then that of her rape and murder.
I remember Gov. Mike Foster telling the women to get their CCW's, a bat, self defense training when Derrick Todd Lee was busy abducting and murdering women a few years ago. He reminded us that we were free to defend ourselves and to not be a victim. We need more common sense leaders running things again.