http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/joe-salazar-rape-guns-colorado.php
Idiotic comments about rape and the current en vogue social issue are a bipartisan issue.
I...honestly think the politician being criticized here has a valid point.
Times when walking outside after dark when I feel like "oh fuck, I'm female, and alone, and there's a man over there looking at me": approximately 50% of all times I've gone outside after dark.
Times I've actually ran into trouble in the past four years: maybe 5%. None of which were rape, thank God, and only one of which involved actual grabbing rather than just verbal harassment from a drunk or whatever.
If someone gave me a gun with explicit instructions of "shoot anyone you feel threatened by" there would be a lot of dead bodies. By contrast, instructions of "shoot only if you are being raped" is pretty useless; by the time I have that figured out, I'd probably be pinned down by someone much stronger than I am, unable to use a gun. The one way in which I can see a gun being useful is as a threat; pulling it out and saying "back off or I'll shoot." Which...actually seems somewhat useful. Pepper Spray fills the same role though for "get out of my face you horny drunk", except that I feel like in the case of the gun half the people would assume it's an empty threat, whereas a girl pulling out pepper spray is almost never an empty threat.
