As we reported on the Morning Joe Recap show, NRA-backed legislators are exploiting the national conversation around campus sexual assault to force guns onto college campuses.
In a profoundly cynical move, NRA-backed legislators are exploiting the national conversation around campus sexual assault to force guns onto college campuses.
This grotesque display of opportunism is beyond the pale. Nevada state assembly member Michele Fiore and Florida state representative Dennis Baxley have each gone on a media blitz in support of this absurd gun lobby talking point. And if gun extremists get their way, guns-on-campus bills will be passed in more than a dozen states.
That's why Everytown is partnering with Know Your IX, a national student-led campaign against gender-based violence, to demand an apology from Fiore and Baxley.
Sign Know Your IX's open letter demanding an apology from Assem. Fiore and Rep. Baxley, and tell them to stop exploiting campus sexual assault to further the gun lobby's agenda.
Click here to automatically add your name.
In most states, colleges can decide whether to allow guns on campus. And the vast majority have said NO.
Now, the NRA and their allies have teamed up to push extremist bills that would force colleges to allow guns on their campuses.
The NRA's solution to every problem is more guns. By saying that guns will prevent rape, they're putting the burden on the victims. And they're denying the indisputable fact that the vast majority of campus assaults are perpetrated by a partner, friend, or close acquaintance -- the types of people around whom people would never think to carry a gun.
Click here to automatically add your name to the open letter calling on these lawmakers to apologize and stop exploiting the problem of sexual assault.
Let's stop this cynical ploy in its tracks before it goes any further.
Read the full open letter below:
Nevada State Assem. Michele Fiore and Florida State Rep. Dennis Baxley:
We demand an apology for your recent statements regarding guns and campus sexual assault. We refuse to remain silent while you exploit the anti-sexual violence movement for your own dangerous agenda.
Assemblymember Fiore, you said that "young, hot little girls on campus" need to arm themselves in order to prevent sexual assault. This statement implies that victims are to blame for being assaulted because they failed to have a gun at the ready.
Representative Baxley, your assertion that women could prevent their own rape if they had a firearm denies the reality that the vast majority of campus victims are raped by a partner, friend, or close acquaintance -- people around which we would never think to carry a gun, let alone use one.
Forcing guns on college campuses would arm assailants and give them yet another tool of violence against their victims. We call on you to apologize for these cynical statements and to stop exploiting the issue of sexual assault for your own extremist gun agenda.
-- Know Your IX
This grotesque display of opportunism is beyond the pale. Nevada state assembly member Michele Fiore and Florida state representative Dennis Baxley have each gone on a media blitz in support of this absurd gun lobby talking point. And if gun extremists get their way, guns-on-campus bills will be passed in more than a dozen states.
That's why Everytown is partnering with Know Your IX, a national student-led campaign against gender-based violence, to demand an apology from Fiore and Baxley.
Sign Know Your IX's open letter demanding an apology from Assem. Fiore and Rep. Baxley, and tell them to stop exploiting campus sexual assault to further the gun lobby's agenda.
Click here to automatically add your name.
Read the full open letter below.
In most states, colleges can decide whether to allow guns on campus. And the vast majority have said NO.
Now, the NRA and their allies have teamed up to push extremist bills that would force colleges to allow guns on their campuses.
The NRA's solution to every problem is more guns. By saying that guns will prevent rape, they're putting the burden on the victims. And they're denying the indisputable fact that the vast majority of campus assaults are perpetrated by a partner, friend, or close acquaintance -- the types of people around whom people would never think to carry a gun.
Click here to automatically add your name to the open letter calling on these lawmakers to apologize and stop exploiting the problem of sexual assault.
Let's stop this cynical ploy in its tracks before it goes any further.
Read the full open letter below:
Nevada State Assem. Michele Fiore and Florida State Rep. Dennis Baxley:
We demand an apology for your recent statements regarding guns and campus sexual assault. We refuse to remain silent while you exploit the anti-sexual violence movement for your own dangerous agenda.
Assemblymember Fiore, you said that "young, hot little girls on campus" need to arm themselves in order to prevent sexual assault. This statement implies that victims are to blame for being assaulted because they failed to have a gun at the ready.
Representative Baxley, your assertion that women could prevent their own rape if they had a firearm denies the reality that the vast majority of campus victims are raped by a partner, friend, or close acquaintance -- people around which we would never think to carry a gun, let alone use one.
Forcing guns on college campuses would arm assailants and give them yet another tool of violence against their victims. We call on you to apologize for these cynical statements and to stop exploiting the issue of sexual assault for your own extremist gun agenda.
-- Know Your IX
