NRA vice-president Wayne LaPierre's claim that the answer to America's problem with gun violence is more guns and fewer background checks isn't going over all that well, so at Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on gun violence, gun rights activists rolled out a different argument. Gayle Trotter of the Independent Women's Forum testified that the proposed legislation would hurt women in particular because "an assault weapon in the hands of a young woman defending her babies in her home becomes a defense weapon." Presenting an image of the assault weapon user as an otherwise defenseless mother rather than a guy who's stockpiling AR-15s to prepare for the government takeover seems like a good idea, but it's already backfiring. It's come to light that Trotter opposes both allowing women in combat and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, calling into question her theories on how to keep women safe.
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