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branford

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3. I just hope I don't have the misfortune of reading
Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:35 PM
Sep 2015

posts victim-blaming, such as suggestions the woman in the story was a drug dealer or involved in some other criminal enterprise, was essentially a "ammosexual" psychopath and owned a gun with the primary intent and desire to kill people, that she could have safely dispatched multiple young, strong male intruders with a baseball bat, golf club or even a can of beans, or she should have waited desperate and defenseless in a closet or under her bed while on the phone with 911 (whom she called before defending herself) because she might have survived the invasion, and hurting the poor home invaders was not worth her meager possessions or her risk of death, serious injury or sexual assault.


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+1,000,000 yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #1
"Though defensive violence will always be... discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2015 #2
I just hope I don't have the misfortune of reading branford Sep 2015 #3
The pro-control POV discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2015 #4
You can count on reading just that. MicaelS Sep 2015 #5
(sniff, sniff) I smell HyperPunk© involvement... Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #6
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