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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Democratic lawmaker apologizes for suggesting women afraid of rape can’t be
trusted with guns
Democratic Colorado state Rep. Joe Salazar apologized Monday for suggesting
some women are so unjustifiably afraid of being raped that they are liable
to start shooting wildly.
Salazar, arguing in favor of disarming college students, said Friday on the
Colorado House floor that women fearing rape may suddenly and haphazardly ”
pop a round at somebody.”
“It’s why we have call boxes; it’s why we have safe zones; it’s why we
have the whistles — because you just don’t know who you’re gonna be
shooting at. And you don’t know if you feel like you’re gonna be raped, or
if you feel like someone’s been following you around or if you feel like
you’re in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun
and you pop … pop a round at somebody,” Salazar said.
“I’m sorry if I offended anyone,” Salazar said in the statement. ”That
was absolutely not my intention. We were having a public policy debate on
whether or not guns makes people safer on campus. I don’t believe they do.
That was the point I was trying to make. If anyone thinks I’m not sensitive
to the dangers women face, they’re wrong. I am a husband and father of two
beautiful girls, and I’ve spent the last decade defending women’s rights
as a civil rights attorney. Again, I’m deeply sorry if I offended anyone
with my comments.”
Despite Salazar’s support for giving women “the whistles,” his comment
that women are more likely to shoot and kill people because they fear being
raped has already sparked controversy in his home state.
Republican state Rep. Polly Lawrence, for example, responded with umbrage to
Salazar’s assertion “that women don’t know when we’re going to be raped
, that [women] can’t recognize when there’s an inherent danger.” |
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