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"  The latest defense for the pro-gun movement? Sexism! This week during the senate gun control hearings, conservative lawyer Gayle Trotter (a woman, need I point out) testified that women need firearms to level the playing field against strong male attackers. She specifically called out the AR-15, a menacing-looking assault rifle, as the ideal gun for women to carry around.  She&amp;#039;s partially right. Who would attack a woman with a massive assault rifle sticking out of her Kate Spade purse? Well, probably a guy who wants to grab it from her and then use her own gun against her, actually.  This whole &amp;quot;more guns is the answer to gun violence&amp;quot; thing is beyond insane. People speaking out against Trotter&amp;#039;s comments are already citing a recent Harvard study, which showed that women in states with looser gun laws suffered more violent deaths than in states with fewer guns. Another recent study shows that women are also weaker than ever before in history thanks to fad diets and an emphasis on being skinny not strong. Obviously a self defense class isn&amp;#039;t going to protect you 100 percent of the time so I get what Trotter was going for with her statement, but hitting the weights and taking an ass-kicking class has less chance of backfiring, literally, than packing an AR-15 in your bedside drawer. Follow Emma on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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