Violence against ALL women, including men
About that Violence Against Women Act…
The House approved with bipartisan support a reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, a popular 1994 law that protects and provides resources for victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence. The measure passed 244-172.
So the 172 are for violence against women? Good heavens no, it’s just that they love guns more than they hate violence against women.
The most contentious issue in the House-passed bill is a provision that expands the criminal threshold to bar an individual from buying a gun to include misdemeanor convictions of domestic abuse or stalking. It would also close the so-called boyfriend loophole to expand the definition of who is affected by existing gun prohibitions to include dating partners. “This legislation makes it clear that Democrats consider gun ownership a second-class right,” said Rep. Bob Good, R-Va.
And that remark makes it clear that Republicans consider gun ownership a right that trumps women’s right to continue existing.
But then the Democrats throw it all away.
The House-passed bill would also strengthen existing protections for transgender women to access women’s shelters and serve in prisons that match their gender identity.
That is, the bill would “strengthen existing protections” for men to invade women’s shelters, thus making them no longer women’s shelters, and to be locked up in women’s prisons, thus making them unsafe for women.
And here I was thinking that “poison pills” were a Republican predilection.
So the big sell to women is that they will be safer from the men IN THEIR OWN HOMES AND LIVES if those men are denied guns? Modern firearms have been around for a few centuries. Men have been killing women with fists, sticks, knives, rocks, poison, bare hands, etc. for all of recorded history and those methods will still be open to them if they can’t get guns. Sounds like removing the violent males from society by giving them much longer time-outs is a better answer but that is just me being an evil carceral feminist, I guess.
As for letting men into women’s prisons for saying the magic word trans…yeah, so a man gets upset with the woman he lives with and bashes her skull in and gets sent to a woman prison. Where he will be put with several women who will no doubt “upset” him at some point and then you have several women found dead with their skulls bashed in.
Really hoping that more women are seeing how neither wing of the political mainstream parties in the USA give a flying fig about us.
So, Democrats vote first that women must have resources to assist them if they suffer DV; then second vote that all those resources must be inappropriate.
That’s stupid, self defeating, and government waste, right?
Next, women die in higher numbers, get more injuries at the hands of current and former partners, and use the bad resources less, allowing both sides to claim that funding these shelters don’t help women, therefore, we shouldn’t fund any shelters at all.
Well the gun bit probably killed it in the Senate, so the trans nonsense is just virtue signaling. Which is most of what congressional politics in our eternal political gridlock ends up being.
*sigh*