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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGayle Trotter "Guns for Mom's" (who Lawrence ripped to pieces) opposed Violence Against Women Act
An assault weapon in the hands of a young woman defending her babies in her home becomes a defense weapon, she said.
Trotter based her defense of gun rights on the need for women to defend themselves against those who would commit violent acts against them. Back in 2012, she was not as supportive of the federal governments efforts to protect women with VAWA. The law, she wrote on the website of the Independent Womens Forum, could promote false accusations of domestic violence.
Trotter opposed VAWA, she wrote last year, because it opened the door to false accusers wasting taxpayer funds.
Americans all want to deter violence, but we also need to protect that foundational principle of the presumption of innocence, said her April 2012 post. Needed resources like shelters and legal aid can be taken by false accusers, denying real victims of abuse access to these supports. That result runs directly counter to the VAWAs spirit.
Trotter was also skeptical of the law for other reasons cited by the Republicans in Congress who kept it from being renewed last year, including provisions allowing illegal immigrants victimized by domestic violence to seek temporary visas.
VAWA now touches hot button immigration issues, which have the potential to encourage immigration fraud, false allegations of abuse, and denial of a rebuttal by the accused spouse, whether male or female, she wrote.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/gayle-trotter-violence-women-guns.php?ref=fpb
sasha031
(6,700 posts)I'm sorry people, I don't know how to make this small, just copied it off twitter
freshwest
(53,661 posts)sasha031
(6,700 posts)do you have a link?
They never change, just get crazier.
found it unbelievable
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251282480
freshwest
(53,661 posts)http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251282480
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)sasha031
(6,700 posts)It was a great show tonight.
adieu
(1,009 posts)live with herself by advocating these talking points. I can't imagine being paid enough to say things like what she had to say. Whoring yourself out this much goes against the grain of any sense of human decency.