The New York Times’ war on gun-owning rape victims

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The New York Times’ war on gun-owning rape victims
http://michellemalkin.com/2014/10/31/the-new-york-times-war-on-gun-owning-rape-victims/

Nasty New York Times editorial writer David Firestone pretends to care about campaign scare-mongering. But what he and his elitist ilk really fear are independent-thinking women who have dared to exercise their First Amendment powers to defend their Second Amendment rights.

This week, Firestone took aim at “attack ads” sponsored by the National Rifle Association. The “worst commercial,” he says, “features a rape victim describing her assault and accusing” former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg “of wanting to take away her right to defend herself.”

That rape victim has a name and a story Firestone couldn’t even bother to mention. She is Kimberly Weeks, a brave and fierce Colorado woman who testified against the Bloomberg-backed gun-control measures that beleaguered Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper now admits he passed “without basic facts” and concedes were ineffective from the get-go.

Leftists love scaremongering as they are pro-criminal. Leftists are diseased in their brain and soul.

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The actual rape victim fires back:

Guest Op-ed: Not the “right kind” of rape victim
By Editorial Staff

Oct. 31, 2014

By Kimberly Weeks

In the early morning hours of May 12, 2006, a stranger broke in to my college area apartment, held me in my own bedroom, and raped me. For two hours, I was held captive in my own home thinking that this was how I was going to die. Somehow, I managed to survive that attack, but my life would be forever changed.

My name is Kimberly Weeks, and contrary to some people’s beliefs, I am indeed a real person with a real story to tell. Discussing my rape amidst a culture of violence and victim-blaming has been no easy task, let me assure you. I have received harsh criticisms over the years, but nothing about my experience of sexual violence has changed. There are still times I awake in the middle of the night with my heart pounding in my chest at the slightest sound. To me, the bump in the night is not a fear of the unknown—it is a fear of reality.

Becoming an advocate for second amendment rights was not something I chose, but instead was thrust upon me in a moment of Colorado’s top politician’s weakness. The state I grew up in was at the center of a national stage—a trial run for the paternalistic east coast politicians like Michael Bloomberg to see just how much (and who) their money could buy. Their elitist and hypocritical mentality is permeating our country and legislating me into being a victim once again.

Very recently, I’ve been accused of fear mongering and waging a war on women in an election season where ads about a fabricated birth control apocalypse and condom shortages are main stream. But my real-life experience is not a gimmick or a strategy, it is just a truth. I could easily be your daughter, your sister, your wife, or your mother. This makes many people uneasy; to have to imagine their loved ones in my shoes. I’m not asking you to go out and buy a gun if that’s not your choice; I know it wasn’t always mine. All I ask is that you not infringe upon my rights to do so.


http://revealingpolitics.com/blog/2014/10/guest-oped-not-the-right-kind-of-rape-victim/

More at the link.

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