RAPIST PROTECTION ZONE: UD Student Raped On Campus
WDTN.com (NBC 2 Dayton) is reporting on a warning for University of Dayton students after a female student was sexually assaulted on campus.
According to the report, the student says two men approached her outside the mechanical engineering building near Stewart, early Saturday morning. One of them, a white college-age man with blond hair and a plaid shirt, sexually assaulted her.
WDTN says university officials hope the safety alert will keep students on guard.
Joe Melendrez lives in a student dorm near the scene of the assault. "It is shocking. It is very uncomfortable. At the same time, it also...we need to have more awareness for things like that."
Holly Dehaven is a UD student. She told WDTN "it was just a reminder that you have to careful where you go at night and make sure you always stay in a group or that you have someone to walk back with you."
Someone needs to tell Holly avoiding walking alone is not an adequate self-defense measure. Two, ten (or even fifty) people can be subdued by one criminal with a gun.
According to the 2003 National Crime Victimization Survey, 93% of violent crimes against innocent citizens last year were carried out without the criminal use of a firearm. 96% of rapes and 75% of robberies were committed by criminals without firearms.
For all rapes, woman who resisted with a gun were 2.5 times more likely to escape without injury than those who did not resist, and 4 times more likely to escape uninjured than those who resisted with any means other than a gun.” (Southwick, Journal of Criminal Justice, 2000)
Why then does the anti-gunners' answer to violence always points to making it more difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain firearms, or the right to bear them for self-defense?
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