Attorney Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women’s Forum headed to Capitol Hill this morning to hitch up her skirt and fight like a girl for women’s right to defend themselves and their families. Speaking at the senate’s gun-grabbing hearing, Trotter explained that “guns make women safer” and “are the great equalizer during a violent confrontation.”
Bonus: Trotter sent progressives into a pearl-clutching tizzy.
https://twitter.com/evanmc_s/statuses/296654798944600066
Here’s a taste of her testimony:
Gayle Trotter from the conservative Independent Women's Forum sharing a story of a woman successfully defending herself from armed intruders
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) January 30, 2013
Ind Women's Forum's Gayle Trotter is making the case that gun ownership is key to women's ability to defend against rape or other attacks
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) January 30, 2013
https://twitter.com/evanmc_s/statuses/296647909150162945
"Guns make women safer" -Gayle Trotter, yep, see previous tweet about Great Britain rapes vs America #guns
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 30, 2013
The previous tweet Pavlich mentioned:
"A woman in Great Britain is three times more likely to be raped than an American woman" -Kopel. CC: @piersmorgan
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 30, 2013
Uh oh. Not a pesky fact!
"guns are the great equalizer during a violent confrontation"
— Matt Vespa (@mVespa1) January 30, 2013
Trotter testifies "Young women are speaking out as to why AR-15 are the gun of choice." Says they're light and accurate.
— Ginger Gibson (@GingerGibson) January 30, 2013
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Trotter testifies that women prefer the "scary" assault weapons to defend themselves if someone attacks their homes.
— Ginger Gibson (@GingerGibson) January 30, 2013
Gayle Trotter: "An assault weapon in the hands of a young woman defending her babies at her home becomes a defense weapon."
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) January 30, 2013
But women shouldn’t be seen or heard unless they’re embracing victimhood and griping about lady parts woes. MSNBC made sure of that:
.@msnbc's #waronwomen: didn't show Gayle Trotter testifying. She's pro-gun rights, pro-women using guns for self defense.
— Ken Shepherd (@KenShepherd) January 30, 2013
HuffPo’s Sam Stein and Media Matters tool Oliver Willis seethed with derision and contempt for Trotter’s views.
In Gayle Trotter's world, a mom has a bottle of milk for her child in one hand and an AR-15 w/ a high capacity clip in another. just in case
— Sam Stein (@samstein) January 30, 2013
https://twitter.com/owillis/statuses/296648500014379008
More media whining:
Gayle Trotter, speaker of all women, apparently: "Of course" women would follow laws if we banned high-capacity gun magazines.
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) January 30, 2013
The gun-grabbing audience also scoffed at Trotter. If her testimony was in favor of gun control, the media would report this as “heckling.”
The women in the audience protested loudly and laughed when Gayle Trotter said she speaks for women who want guns for defense.
— Emily Miller (@emilymiller) January 30, 2013
Anti-gunners in the room literally laughing at loud at women who like their AR-15s to defend their children in their homes. #guns
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 30, 2013
https://twitter.com/instapundit/status/296655667396218880
Gayle Trotter heckled by clearly liberal members of audience as she argues AR-15s are good for women and that she reps millions of women
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) January 30, 2013
Spectators noisy for first time – women in the crowd murmur "not true" as Gayle Trotter says she represents millions of women who want guns.
— Rebecca Kaplan (@RebeccaRKaplan) January 30, 2013
But instead, Emily Miller’s response will be portrayed as heartless, despicable heckling of kind and loving souls exercising their First Amendment rights:
I accidentally yelled out — "she speaks for me" — when the women protested. My fellow reporters looked horrified.
— Emily Miller (@emilymiller) January 30, 2013
No pro-gun testimony is complete without a little Twitter heckling from the vagina gallery:
https://twitter.com/codepink/status/296648654226341888
Guns do NOT make women safe. A demilitarized society does!! #guncontrol
— CODEPINK (@codepink) January 30, 2013
https://twitter.com/codepink/status/296655202776391680
Let’s let non-Julia Katie Pavlich have the last word on that:
U do realize @codepink that u don't represent all women w/ your vagina costumes right? 1/2 of women, millions, like their guns & AR-15s.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) January 30, 2013
And once again, the War on Women is coming from the Left.