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CO Senator Hudak’s Rape Remarks

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Colorado Democratic state Senator Evie] Hudak’s remarks to rape survivor and gun rights advocate Amanda Collins have been all over the internet today. Suffice it to say, anyone who discounts the experience of a rape victim—especially one prohibited from carrying a suitable means of self-defense—doesn’t deserve to hold public office. [NB: TTAG apologizes for a previous version of this post which mischaracterized State Senator Ted Harvey’s sympathetic remarks to Ms. Collins.]

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Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. Midway stands for Integrity, Honor and freedom you can see this during the height of prices and gouging going on their prices remained firm and they stood strong with customers! I fully support Midway as I continue to order more parts from them I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for great service and great values!

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  2. So Midway doesn’t price gouge and donates $1M to the NRA, while CTD price gouges and gives $100K to the SAF. Which one will I do business with? (FYI, I have no issues with SAF, they are great).

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  3. That sick F-en hag. Let’s duke it out with these anti-freedom dirt bags already. What they hell is wrong with her? I hope she rots in hell.

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  4. Just cuz I like that Midway customers contributed, I’d like to mention again…

    The $1mil from Midway is in addition to the previous $1mil that Midway customers donated via the “Round Up” up campaign in 2012.

    So the Potterfields and Midway have been responsible for $2 Million dollars worth of 2nd Amendment legislative donations.

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    • Up with that!!! However, I recall Hubert Humphrey, a dyed-in-the-wool Minnesota Democrat if they ever was one, was pro-Second Amendment. And don’t forget JFK.

      So maybe we should instead say “liberals”, instead. Because modern-day liberals are an inversion of the original meaning. The Founding Fathers were classical liberals.

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  5. According to KWGN (Denver),

    While walking to her car after an evening class, Collins was grabbed from behind by an armed man and raped in a university parking garage less than 300 yards from a campus police office.

    Collins had a concealed carry permit, but was not permitted to have her 9-mm Glock on campus, per Nevada law.

    This occurred in 2007 at the University of Nevada-Reno.

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  6. Ted Harvey is a gun absolutist. He is a constitution carry believer. He is an RMGO supporter. I have got to talk to the man and he is 100% committed to our right to keep and bear arms. He was mocking the gun grabbers saying ensuring the hoplophobia’s feelings is more important than your right to protect yourself. Simply showing the hypocrisy of the democrats on the committee.

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  7. Don’t know what the others were, but here’s one for the hell of it. “Guns – Because I have the right to choose how I defend myself.”

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  8. Congrats to the winner, well done! I’m somewhat relieved I didn’t win, at least now I’m not stuck with that dopey book.

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  9. I’d like to verify her source of information. I’m reasonably certain it wont stand up to scrutiny, but it’s worth considering her numbers.

    That said it’s irrelevant to the point.

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  10. I too have had a Cobra for 45 yrs. and enjoyed it since the day I got it. It was a gift from my grand dad on my 11th birthday. Now before people get the wrong idea my dad keep it put up till I was 15 or sixteen but we would go plunking cans quite often while I was young. I learn to shoot it early aged so accuracy and hitting the target has never been a big issue for me. It is still today the first one I’ll grab to throw in my pocket. Light and like the man said reliable, pull the trigger it go bang. How many of you remember the Melvin T grips (metal), still have those on it. :>)

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  11. In response to the 1:83 statistic, Amanda should have said “I’m here tonight to try to improve that ratio”.

    It’s crazy, they disarm the victims and them complain that they don’t need guns because their killing isn’t on parity with criminals.

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  12. Earlier devices of the type did not require an SBR stamp as long as the handgun was not “affixed” to the extension. This device appears to affix the handgun to the extension (AR-15), and therefore does not qualify under the earlier rulings.

    Having said that, this device fills a niche that does not exist. If my long gun fails to function the last thing I want is to have my backup weapon attached to it!

    lol

    Charlie

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  13. It’s kind of funny to see a Democrat woman make statements as insensitive to women as a Republican man. Everyone’s an a-hole. You just have to give them a chance to reveal themselves.

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  14. Evie is really hard on the eyes. I think her face and body would actually be a better deterrent than a gun to rape. All kidding aside that is one ugly creature.

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  15. For the past few years……if I can get it from them I do. The first time that I ordered from them I was hooked. The reason? I ordered six 30 round magazines. I put the order in about 10 in the morning. By 3PM they were on the truck waiting to be shipped. It wasn’t BS either!!! Two days later they were at my home here in sunny Florida.

    Another reason? I bought the first six on sale. When I decided to order more I went to their website and the sale was no longer in effect. I went back and found the email from them that I used to get the sale price…….and voila!! Sale price honored!!Absolutely brillant!! Keep up the good work guys!!!

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  16. the bill would have been easier to challenge and tips without an amendment. oh well. i am similarly ambivalent about the md law.

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  17. Ahhhh!!!!! Senator Hudak’s response is beyond disgusting. Someone has to take her to task.

    Her statistic is completely disingenuous. Of course any ratio comparing 100% armed criminals to law abiding women — who are almost never armed — is going to be incredibly skewed. Of course armed criminals have killed many more law abiding women than law abiding women — who are almost never armed — have killed armed criminals!!!!! Of course women come out on the losing end when 100% of the criminal attackers always acted with the element of surprise and 100% of the women who were victims were always reacting to the criminal’s surprise attack.

    I also have to believe that the senator’s statistic includes domestic violence attacks. Again, 100% of men who used a firearm to murder their wife/girlfriend were armed with a firearm. And almost all of the women they murdered were not armed with a gun — or else they probably would have used it and never become a murder victim!

    This example should make the senator’s statistical slight-of-hand crystal clear. Cars are incredibly dangerous for average citizens because 83 average citizens die in cars for every 1 Amish person who dies in a car. Well of course — because Amish people by definition don’t drive in cars!!!!!!!

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  18. I think that answers the question about supporting the NRA….only the Big Kahuna could draw a donation like that….lets face it, like it or not, they’re the big “gun rights gorilla” in the room….its like a football game (only much more serious)….let the smaller pro-2A be nimble, but we need the NRA “Refrigerator” to be the defensive lineman….who also happens to make a few touchdowns….and plenty of tackles.

    I hope they use it well, and other businesses pony up in a game of donation one-upmanship…it’d be great to see a company (even CTD) say…” I’ll see Midway’s $1M and raise you another $500,000….”

    Right now, we must all hang together…the enemy of my enemy is my friend…

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  19. “The center tracked 1,360 radical militias and anti-government groups in 2012”

    That’s 27 ‘radical militias’ per state. I couldn’t find one in PA if my life depended on it.

    Makes me wonder what criteria makes a ‘radical militia’?

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  20. Government exists for the purposes of collective self-defense from enemies, and the unpeaceable lawbreakers — that part the ruling class got right. However, self-defense is a natural individual right — and the aid of others in defense is something that depends on them having the same individual rights to exercise together.

    What we are seeing is the exposing of two deep flaws in the ruling class thinking — that a right can be eliminated individually and yet enjoyed collectively. It is a logical impossibility — and self-defeating. To the extent they succeed, they must fail. But it is a failure with a cost – disabling self-defense for millions specifically – and enabling thugs generally.

    The second flaw is that the reaction by people of ordinary sense is to disregard and actively evade a manifestly wicked and foolish “law.” Rule of law erodes and all laws become progressively less observed– and less trusted. All laws become tainted with the same suspicion of an arbitrary dictate — and obedience to law without direct enforcement becomes a thing of the past. Without the rule of law, strong-arm rule is all that is left.

    So they lead us to a world where our choices end up being between the thugs or the tyrants — where the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must. As it ever was, until, for a brief time in England until 1920 and then for one bright day here in 1789, and until now. That day that may never come again. We look now in vain for men in public service to be worthy of that day — and find instead those who would publicly demean victims who just wanted not to be punished for having the means to defend themselves in the first place.

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  21. The Federal government is trying to confiscate property and curtail rights–and not just with regard to guns. Gun control, drones, the PATRIOT Act, and all other such evil are parts of one slow and stupid march toward tyranny. I say stupid because I don’t think that this is a conscious plan. It’s just that there is a force like gravity that pulls all governments in the direction of tyranny. Good people, whether in or out of government, pull against that. Evil people let government head in the wrong way or actively push it along.

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  22. Midway rocks! They have always treated me well. The one time I had a complaint, I was dealing directly with Larry who quickly addressed my concerns. What other company of that size can make a similar claim for such an outstanding level of personal customer service?
    BTW, Midway is the Official Sponsor of the 2013 NRA convention in Houston. The wife and I already have our tickets & travel purchased.

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  23. “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, — go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”

    Sam Adams

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  24. HR 575, the Second Amendment Protection Act

    So we will protect the Second Amendment from everyone but ourselves. Once we destroy it the UN can do as they please but not before

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