More Guns Equal Less Crime: Part MMMCCXLIII
By Mitch Berg
Ten years ago, Colorado Springs University had a bit of a sexual assault problem.
Back in 2003, they legalized concealed carry for permitted adults on campus.
And what do you suppose happened?
Since then, according to Students for Concealed Carry, the number of forcible and non-forcible sexual assaults dropped sharply, falling 90 percent from a high in 2002 to a new low in 2008.
“This is a big surprise” said nobody who follows this issue, ever.
While Colorado Democrat Joe Salazar suggested that women could not be trusted to carry guns on campus because they might not know when they’re being raped, a young woman who was raped on campus because she was not allowed to carry a firearm, despite having a permit, has said otherwise.
Read the whole thing. The rape survivor’s narrative digs at the idea of passive resistance, and even police presence, as legitimate deterrants to sexual assault.
April 1st, 2013 at 6:47 am
I think that I saw a video of this woman testifying in front of the communist, I mean Democrat, controlled CO legislature in opposition to their gun grab. Following the meme of her ignorant and sexist colleagues, one of the orcs, female Rep. Eva Hudak, told trivialized her testimony by lecturing her; telling her that the odds were against her being able to defend herself due to her size. Of course, said female rep looked like she might want to mix in a salad every now and then, so I ‘m sure that she was confident that she would be able to fend off any pervert that was desperate enough to attack her. On another note, even with the U.S. Olympic training center there, friends that live in CO Springs, tell me that the city has become a crime ridden cesspool. Places that used to be safe to walk in at night, now are not. Gotta love the continued libturd hypocrisy.
April 1st, 2013 at 9:12 am
CSU is generally “Colorado State University” in Fort Collins, Mitch. Somebody got confused there. “Ski U” (the U. of Colorado, which has a branch in Colorado Springs) fought concealed carry for years.But if the data are real, way cool.