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NRA Suggests Gun Ownership For Women Who Wear Spandex At Night
An article in the National Rifle Association's magazine suggested that several factors -- including being a woman who chooses to wear Spandex at night, having PTSD, or being dependent on drugs or alcohol -- increases a person's "Vulnerability Index," before suggesting that people can significantly reduce their vulnerability by buying a gun.
While events ratchet risk levels up or down, those changes are dwarfed by those wrought by the daily choices we make. For example:
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You're a woman carrying groceries to your car. In both hands. At night. Returning from the gym. In Spandex. You're on the phone. Hello? Hello?
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You're a woman carrying groceries to your car. In both hands. At night. Returning from the gym. In Spandex. You're on the phone. Hello? Hello?
The article also lists having PTSD or "nagging chemical dependencies such as nicotine, alcohol and drugs" as other factors that increase vulnerability. (Under federal law, people who are addicted to controlled substances are legally prohibited from buying guns.)
Unsurprisingly, the article places gun ownership at the top of the list during an exercise in reducing one's "Vulnerability Index," assigning firearm ownership -100 points, while being a daily exerciser earns -10 points, owning a dog -5 points, and living in a gated community -25 points.
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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/02/19/nra-suggests-gun-ownership-for-women-who-wear-s/208695
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Is this The Onion?
Talk about things that bounce off the old brainbox at oblique angles.... 
They have instructions or something so incredibly creepy it reminds me of another group of creepy crawlers 
Fuck the N.R.A!!!!!
Yeah!
