Reply #85: ah yes, abortion and firearms possession; veritable Granny Smiths and Macintoshes, eh? [View All]

Yes, women's reproductive choices are just so much like the possession of firearms, aren't they?

To a misogynist, maybe. Can't think of why anybody but a misogynist would even think of putting the two in the same basket.


http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2007/04/virginia_tech_women.html

Of all the lessons contained in the horror at Virginia Tech, the one least likely to be learned has to do with the deadly danger posed by the dismissive way we still view violence against women.

... In fact, these attitudes ignore past evidence of both "domestic disputes" and a more generalized misogyny as motives in mass killings. Multiple murders in homes and workplaces often begin with a man killing his wife or girlfriend. Mark Barton, who in 1999 shot nine people in an Atlanta office building, began the day by bludgeoning to death his children and his wife; six years earlier he had been a suspect in the death of his first wife and her mother, who were also beaten to death. In another high-profile case, the December 1989 mass shooting at Montreal's Ecole Polytechnique, Marc Lepine was after women, whom he hated, and had a list of feminists he wanted to kill. He murdered four men and 14 women, and wounded 10 more women. In September 2006, Duane Roger Morrison walked into Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colo., and took six female students hostage, killing one. And last October, Charles Carl Roberts IV took over an Amish schoolhouse, let the boys go, and killed five girls.

One warning sign in such cases is a history of stalking and harassment of women. ...

Yes, yes. Free access to firearms for woman-haters is just so much like women exercising their fundamental rights.

In case anyone's confused: free access to firearms MEANS free access to firearms for woman-haters. Duh.

Free access to abortion means free access to abortion for ... um, give me a minute here ... women, that's it. Women who use those abortions to rob and maim and terrorize, that's right. Guess it was moi who was confused.