Wednesday, March 25, 2009

WaPo to Domestic Violence Victims: You Can't, Shouldn't Arm Yourselves with Guns

The legislation is most likely DOA in the Maryland House of Delegates -- where a similar bill was shot down in an 86-51 vote -- but the Washington Post is so frightened by a state Senate committee vote approving a measure to make it easier for domestic abuse victims to buy a gun that it thought it important to preach about how "Arming abuse victims is the wrong way to curb domestic violence."

According to a March 24 Post editorial, abused women are just too emotionally unstable to exercise their Second Amendment rights and probably

"have seen one Jodie Foster film too many"

if they think a gun can even the odds against a violent abuser.

[There's a reason they're called 'equalizers', and no one is harmed more by gun restriction laws than are women.]

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