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Rottimer t1_jb1xzmw wrote

Reply to comment by Amon213 in Woman Followed Into Manhattan Building, Dragged Out of Elevator in Late-Night Rape: Cops by NetQuarterLatte

Interesting idea. I'm sure that there evidence that lax gun regulations are associated with lower rates of forcible rape. Let's compare Texas to NY.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/232563/forcible-rape-rate-in-the-us-by-state/

Holy shit, Texas has nearly twice the per capita forcible rape incidents as liberal gun grabbing NY state. Maybe arming everyone isn't the answer.

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1AngryBrotha t1_jb20ayw wrote

What percentage of victims in TX have a CCP?

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Rottimer t1_jb215is wrote

You don't need CCP in Texas any longer to carry concealed. Regardless, that sounds like victim blaming, because even Texas, you need to choose to carry a weapon. It's almost like you're blaming those victims for being raped if they didn't have a CCP.

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zjl539 t1_jb2rtiw wrote

disagree with op, but it’s not victim blaming to say something could have been prevented

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1AngryBrotha t1_jb21jgi wrote

I'm not blaming victims, I just think the correlation you're drawing is spurious.

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Amon213 t1_jb1y55f wrote

So what is?

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Rottimer t1_jb20mbj wrote

To reduce rapes in this city/state/country? A tremendous amount of money to fund social investment that would take years to see the results of. So nothing that politicians or most American voters are willing to do.

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Amon213 t1_jb24frm wrote

What social investments are we lacking to stop rapes?

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