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...good news is that violent crime in Cambridge fell 13 percent last year. Reported incidents of rape fell 51 percent; robberies fell by 21 percent...
...commend the organizers of Harvard's Take Back the Night week for their noble efforts in combating rape and other crimes against women. I would also like to take this opportunity, in keeping with the theme of last week's events, to encourage handgun ownership and carrying among American women...
What makes rape different from other forms of assault is that it involves the alienation of a woman or man from control over her or his own body. The introduction of physical or psychological coercion into sex attacks the very core of bodily determination and the right to control one's sexual, reproductive, and emotional life. The support for abortion rights is predicated on the same principles: women must have the right to control their own bodies and determine when and if they want to become mothers. The battle against sexual violence in this country has always been intimately linked...
Firearms are used by men and women hundreds of thousands of times each year to thwart crime. In states where citizens carry concealed handguns, violent crime rates decline. Women serious about stopping rape--both on an immediate level and on a societal level--should carry handguns, not whistles. As an added bonus, the high rate of repeat offenders in sex crimes means that rapists stopped by justifiable homicide will be unable to repeat their crimes; in this way, women carrying handguns protect not only themselves, but the whole of society...
TBTN organizers have also sponsored discussions about sexism, racism and abortion, in addition to planning dinners, movie screenings and a rape defense course. This weekend there will be a Take Back the River Run to remind the campus community that the river should always be safe for women...