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annabanana

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17. gotcha.. but how

Reply to Cleita (Reply #16)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:28 PM

Feb 2013

to get there? Especially when it is so deeply ingrained in the culture?

Think we have a "blame the victim" mentality here? ("She shouldn't have been out alone/dressed like that/at night" etc.)

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It just gets worse doesn't it? Cleita Feb 2013 #1

REALLY concealed carry, I guess.. . . n/t annabanana Feb 2013 #12

Really? I don't think concealed carry would constitute a militia. Cleita Feb 2013 #13

I'm just saying that in this case annabanana Feb 2013 #15

Well that would be a guerilla army, not a bad idea in certain circumstances, but I'm more in Cleita Feb 2013 #16

gotcha.. but how annabanana Feb 2013 #17

It will be up to these women to do it for themselves or for women in Cleita Feb 2013 #18

But no crazier than requiring older females to tblue37 Feb 2013 #2

That is exactly it etherealtruth Feb 2013 #4

+1 thanks (nt) enough Feb 2013 #7

+ 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 n/t MANative Feb 2013 #11

Yep gollygee Feb 2013 #14

Maybe if they had harsher penalties than those allowed Arkansas Granny Feb 2013 #3

peculiar how men are not required to wear any of this stuff nt msongs Feb 2013 #5

This is wrong on so many levels... riderinthestorm Feb 2013 #6

They are becoming the GOP Politicalboi Feb 2013 #8

Yes. Blaming perversion on victims. That sounds like the GOP. nt bluestate10 Feb 2013 #10

He's nuts. 840high Feb 2013 #9

OK. This right here is just really fucked up. smirkymonkey Feb 2013 #19