Thursday, January 31, 2013

Pro-Gun Advocate, Gayle Trotter's facts are wrong. She spoke at the Congressional Hearing.

Gayle said every woman would be safer with an Assault Weapon and/or a gun with a clip of 20 or 30 while caring for her babies.  People have looked at the records on gun violence and the facts say that the woman often is worse off when there is a gun involved.

A bit from the article:

But Trotter is wrong about women and guns, dangerously so. Far from making women safer, the presence of firearms in situations of domestic violence (which occur far more frequently than any other crime in the United States, Trotter’s “stranger danger” scenarios be damned) dramatically increases the likelihood a woman will be killed by her abuser. As Amanda Marcotte reported for Slate, the Violence Policy Center conducted research to quantify this point and found that 83 women were killed by an intimate partner for every woman who used a gun in self-defense. 

http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/01/it-should-come-as-no-suprise-that-facts.html

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