Reply #118: it's really very simple

[iverglas]

despite your spinning and twisting.

Women who are abused by intimate partners DO NOT NEED FIREARMS. Because the vast majority of women in that situation, for a whole multitude of reasons, are not going to use firearms on the abuser. And because firearms in the home are very often part of the organizing structure of intimate-partner abuse of women.

Women do kill their abusive partners -- in situations in which the pattern of abuse and its psychological effects on the women make their claim to have feared for their lives reasonable, even if there was no objective basis for that fear.

Women should not have to kill their abusive partners in order to escape the relationship. But many women really do see no alternative.

And one reason why women do not see leaving as an alternative is that they know that leaving itself puts them at greater risk. Firearms in the hands of the abusive partner put them at exponentially greater risk.


If a guy were to publicly offer up such a dismissive comment regarding the reasoning powers of women, he (rightfully) would be raked over the coals.

And if I were to pretend to believe that a sarcastic representation of ideas that the speaker herself plainly rejected actually represented what the speaker herself thought ... I'd be ashamed. Very ashamed.


Just as I'd be deeply, mortally ashamed if I were ever to try to exploit and manipulate any victimized group for my own selfish ends. You apparently have no such compunctions.