Women just don\u2019t have the physical strength to use a gun for self-defense on college campuses, at least according to New Yorkers Against Gun Violence Executive Director Leah Gunn Barrett.<\/p>\n
Barrett made the completely unfounded claim on an episode of Third Rail on Al Jazeera. The claim was further devalued given it was made in front of Florida state Rep. Rehwinkel Vasilinda, who, while in college, used a gun to prevent her attempted rape.<\/p>\n
Vasilinda wants college women on Florida campuses to be able to protect themselves with a firearm, but Barrett argued that campuses are \u201csome of the safest places in the nation.\u201d <\/p>\n
Barrett was puzzled by Vasilinda\u2019s views and wondered why anyone would \u201cwant to change that\u201d by arming law-abiding women. Barrett added that she would never let her daughter attend a college where women were allowed to do such things.<\/p>\n
Vasilinda tried explaining that colleges aren\u2019t quite as safe as Barrett has been led to believe, and that 20 percent of college women are subjected to rape.<\/p>\n
Still, Barrett adamantly shunned the use of guns by women, arguing that because they are \u201cweaker\u201d than men, they shouldn\u2019t use a weapon that could stop their more powerful assailant.<\/p>\n
\u201cWomen are not physically powerful like men,\u201d said Barrett. \u201cA gun could easily be turned on the woman, and it is frequently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barrett later added that the nine unarmed church-goers who were fatally shot in Charleston would not have been any safer had they been armed. <\/p>\n
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