{"id":29583,"date":"2018-02-23T14:49:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T13:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/23\/giving-women-guns-wouldnt-prevent-rape-it-would-land-women-in-jail-jessica-valenti\/"},"modified":"2018-02-23T14:49:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T13:49:57","slug":"giving-women-guns-wouldnt-prevent-rape-it-would-land-women-in-jail-jessica-valenti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=29583","title":{"rendered":"Giving women guns wouldn&#039;t prevent rape: it would land women in jail | Jessica Valenti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch says guns will protect vulnerable women. But a court system that already blames rape victims won\u2019t be kind to those who kill their attackersNRA spokesperson Dana Loesch has told a lot of lies over the past 24 hours. Loesch, dispatched to counter the swell of young anger across the country, joined CNN\u2019s town hall with Marjory Stoneman Douglas students on Wednesday night as part of the NRA\u2019s post-Parkland damage-control tour. There, she lied to grieving students and parents about the NRA wanting expanded background checks (they oppose them) and insisted that \u201cpeople who are crazy\u201d should not be able to obtain guns despite the NRA\u2019s opposition to gun bans on people with mental illnesses.The most insidious lie of the evening, however, was Loesch\u2019s insistence that armed women could better defend themselves from rape \u2013 a claim that\u2019s not only easily disproven, but that serves a very specific purpose: the NRA wants us to believe that guns protect the most vulnerable among us, instead of realizing the truth \u2013 that they kill the most vulnerable. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/feb\/23\/dana-loesch-women-gun-reform-rapists\" target=\"_blank\">Giving women guns wouldn&#039;t prevent rape: it would land women in jail | Jessica Valenti<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch says guns will protect vulnerable women. But a court system that already blames rape victims won\u2019t be kind to those who kill their attackersNRA spokesperson Dana Loesch has told a lot of lies over the past 24 hours. Loesch, dispatched to counter the swell of young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}