Failed Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis has a new issue besides late-term abortion — gun control — but she’s framing that too as a women’s issue in a piece she wrote for Cosmopolitan:
While gun safety may not seem like a feminist issue at first blush, it doesn’t take too much digging to see that women are uniquely vulnerable to and disproportionately the victims of gun violence. As former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (herself a survivor of gun violence) has eloquently said: “Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women. Criminals with guns. Abusers with guns. Stalkers with guns. That makes gun violence a women’s issue. For mothers, for families, for me and you.”
“Mama bear is fire-engine-red mad right now,” Davis writes. “And she’s not backing down.”
Wendy Davis on gun violence: "Women are uniquely vulnerable" https://t.co/uwt5DiumSj pic.twitter.com/8YUrDrUBoT
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 14, 2017
But if women are uniquely vulnerable, shouldn’t they, you know, arm themselves?
That's why they need guns, stupid. https://t.co/aqQmGdlCDu
— Mr. X (@stillglomar) November 14, 2017
Um…I know. That's why I'm a gun owner. https://t.co/9dboQ9ARJr
— Princess Consuela Banana-Hammock (@conkc2) November 14, 2017
Which is why we carry. It's not hard, Wendy. https://t.co/SamASpExCT
— Schadenfreudelish (@aggierican) November 14, 2017
That's why I have a gun and a husband with a gun and also thank god Greg Abbott as governor. https://t.co/7qf8EXs1SJ
— Punished Gesserit (@twigright) November 14, 2017
Ladies, might I suggest the same solution that I discovered when I realized my particular vulnerability? GET??A??GUN??…&learn how to use it #TheGreatEqualizer https://t.co/xQkqbwqoC1
— Kira (@RealKiraDavis) November 14, 2017
This sounds like an argument for the second amendment. https://t.co/5ozLipSTk1
— Dan (@danieltobin) November 14, 2017
Obviously she means women are uniquely vulnerable and therefore should carry and train to defend themselves. Because it would be cruel to disarm the vulnerable. https://t.co/7x1zbjuwrf
— Jonathan Levin (@JNLevin) November 14, 2017
"Women are vulnerable, so let's make it harder for them to defend themselves" https://t.co/iWpsmouEVv
— Heimish Conservative (@HeimishCon) November 14, 2017
And she actually thinks this is an ANTI-gun argument. https://t.co/d4Byoq1v98
— Jim Treacher, which is admittedly a dumb pseudonym (@jtLOL) November 14, 2017
I'm glad to see she's finally promoting female firearm ownership. https://t.co/aC65JdKEu8
— Michael Belcher (@elduderinomike1) November 14, 2017
Wait, women are uniquely vulnerable….so let's ban guns? Did it ever occur to her that women can better protect themselves with guns? https://t.co/pLMdqUvOeK
— F. Jeffery (@Natsecjeff) November 14, 2017
Indeed. Which is why they need to equal the odds when a stronger/bigger man tries to attack them. https://t.co/Nw7hDRc4lP
— Anthony Abides (@AnthonyAbides) November 14, 2017
Guns equalize the power between men and women. Stop making women helpless. https://t.co/81B78cQAm4
— Chad Felix Greene (@chadfelixg) November 14, 2017
And about those stats …
"disproportionately the victims of gun violence"
in what world? https://t.co/4NZvC67kmA
— subtweetive streak (@kellyrued) November 14, 2017
This is a lie. https://t.co/1LlsrsW7bK
— Azathoth (@ArkhamRealty) November 14, 2017
This is completely inaccurate on many levels, most notably statistical, which is publicly available information #ignorant https://t.co/ge9AZB0pq9
— Zach Hanover (@zhanover) November 14, 2017
Women are uniquely protected by gun ownership. And most victims of gun violence are men. https://t.co/HHN7PVNbmi
— Queen of AnCapistan (@syd_viciously) November 14, 2017
85% of gun violence victims in this country are men. https://t.co/QDhzd5OyDK
— neontaster (@neontaster) November 14, 2017
This article says women are disproportionate victims of gun violence. Let's look at that. Fbi murder stats 2015:
-10608 men murdered
-2818 women murdered
-9616 gun deaths.All of those women could've been killed by guns and men would still be 2.5x more likely to die from guns https://t.co/9inyzAbwtJ
— Satan (@IAmReallySatan) November 14, 2017
She's literally completely wrong. Women are far less likely to be victims of gun violence (and homicides) than men are. Why can people not acknowledge certain things are actually worse for men than women? https://t.co/zEHoqDpkMN
— Taqqiya Purveyor (@notwokieleaks) November 14, 2017
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Sandra Bullock to star in Wendy Davis movie no one asked for https://t.co/7lFxhH81v0
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) November 10, 2017
