Rape: The NRA’s Newest Marketing Tool

FloGold · May 24, 2013

Rape: The NRA’s Newest Marketing Tool

Recently the NRA and GOP have been pushing a media campaign centered around women, rape and the Second Amendment. While rape has been on the decline in the United States over the last 10 years, neither the NRA nor GOP backers have been able to produce data that even hints that this is due to firearm usage by would-be victims. Instead, they’ve used the decline in rape and the increase in firearms sales and concealed weapon laws to form their argument – but nothing in the form of actual data. This may be due to the GOP backed moratorium on firearm violence research funding for the CDC.
Interestingly the fervor for more guns to prevent rape and violence toward women comes from the same party that had to be arm-twisted into re-authorizing VAWA. Let’s not forget that some misinformed or misogynistic members of the GOP had the clarity to suggest that women cannot be impregnated by rape because they can “shut that whole thing down” and that they’re usually “asking for it” when it does happen. But now that it’s politically advantageous they’ve taken up the cause to protect the women of America from sexual violence.
Here are some facts: The US Bureau of Justice reported that from 2005-10, 78% of sexual violence involved an offender who was a family member, intimate partner, friend, or acquaintance. In the same time period only 11% of the offenders were armed with a weapon. Approximately 90% of the offenders were acting alone and almost 70% of the time the rape or assault occurred in the home of the victim or the home of a family member, partner, friend or acquaintance.
It’s very likely that there were firearms available in many of the locations where the violence took place, so the information on how many rapes are stopped by firearms being used against fathers, uncles, brothers, boyfriends, cousins, neighbors and husbands should be available. However, no conclusive evidence has been put forward.
It’s a shame that the NRA and the GOP need to use rape and violence against women in order to push the sales and agenda of the gun industry, especially in light of the horrific realities of rape and sexual assault. The right to own firearms isn’t going anywhere; they are a tool on the table of humankind, for better or worse, and they will remain in the toolbox of American society for the foreseeable future.
Rape CAN be dramatically reduced–through education and a significant change in how men in our society view and treat women though–not with more firearms.

Paroxetine Samurai · May 25, 2013

I didn't have to read TFA to figure out my response:

Hell... Even animals do it when they here anything from the NRA:

On the plus side: This could be the footbullet that takes those whackadoos down.

Anonymous · May 25, 2013

How can we use this?

Anonymous · May 25, 2013

Anonymous said: ↑

How can we use this?

Don't know. Still waiting for the NRA to say that guns could have stopped the Oklahoma Tornado.

Anonymous · May 30, 2013

http://wonkette.com/506980/noted-an...the-nra-surprisingly-cool-with-domestic-abuse

So for the past few weeks the normally uber-masculine folks who are associated with the gun lobby and the other various tangential steel-phallus worshiping groups have all been very concerned with rape, or at least one very specific form of rape. NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre spoke at CPAC last week (because wherever there is an open mic LaPierre will find it through a process of passive osmosis) to once again tell the fervent crowd about how the industry that floods his 401k with blood money is literally the only force that is securing the existence of our people and a future for white women and children. Specifically, LaPierre was very concerned about the hordes of spree rapists lying in wait throughout this country and only being kept at bay by women empowered through the dependable panacea of a concealed handgun permits.

All five of the Washington cases identified by The Times in which the woman who obtained the protective order was later killed were murder-suicides. In three cases, the woman wrote in her petition that her husband or ex-boyfriend possessed firearms. In none of the cases did the judges issue surrender orders.
In each of these cases women attempted to protect themselves through alerting the law to the fact that allowing their ex to have access to weapons amounted to handing gasoline and a box of matches to a paroled arsonist. And in each case the concerns of these victims were either ignored or entirely dismissed due to the legal miasma intentionally created by the NRA these exact situations. WHOOPS! Who could have ever have predicted this?

anonsoldier · May 30, 2013

Well that's pretty fucking twisted.

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