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CNN Anchor Uses Rape Survivor as a Punchline
This is a disturbing tweet from CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, and one that should, if we lived in a rational world, land him in some really hot water:
Only in America https://t.co/rPfsxGU8Gh
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) May 29, 2019
The woman in the NRA video? Rape survivor Kimberly Corban. Corban is an inspiration and one Cuomo, and his viewers, should acquaint themselves with. Here’s her Ted Talk:
Corban’s message was simple: If you want to hurt me or my family, I will protect us. To this Cuomo says “Only in America.”
Yeah. Thank God. Only in America can a woman overpower a man hellbent on harming her with a firearm. This is something we should applaud and be proud of, if we care about protecting women from predators and if we care about empowering them to feel safe wherever they’re legally allowed to carry.
I’m in a Facebook group called “Sheepdog Mamas” filled with women who protect themselves like Kimberly has chosen to do. Women who live in rural or remote areas, women with abusive or absent spouses (who work long hours, who are deployed, or who have just simply left their families). These women look at their firearms as their only source of protection, and they need it due to the distance between their home and a nearby police station, local crime in the area or a specific threat.
It would be nice if Cuomo and those like him in the media used this misstep as an opportunity to learn about Kimberly’s story, and learn why so many women like her have chosen to arm and protect themselves. But as usual, let’s not hold our breath that anyone at CNN might have anything resembling an epiphany about why so many Americans so strongly support maintaining the gun rights we are currently afforded by our Constitution.
Hint: It’s not the NRA that keeps Americans caring about protecting our freedom to bear arms.
Published in Guns
Hmmmm, lots of Dems get a little upset when rape victims can defend themselves. Odd.
Firearms? But women have been given a perfectly good hashtag. Won’t #MeToo save you and your family?
Do you honestly think that Cuomo or these Democrats have the self-awareness to think they might have made a mistake? If you do, I think you are vastly overestimating them.
I’m with Andrew Klavan on this idiot. He’s in a figurative running gun battle with his sibling for dumbest Cuomo brother.
“Only in America” is an entirely appropriate response. We have a second amendment.
I guess Cuomo thought it was somehow an indictment of America that a woman can defend herself ( with a gun!) , but I, and most Americans, do not.
Can you imagine how far out of touch with Americans one must be to not understand that?
Yes, that is not a negative phrase at all, but considering who it is coming from . . .
In a weird and non intentional way Cuomo is correct. Women and children can be and are assaulted every day all over the world but only in America (the U.S. specifically) is a women allowed to defend herself and her family in virtually whatever way she can, which includes firearms. However, Cuomo is too clueless to understand that… And I agree with @PHenry and @vancerichards.
To the end of Cuomo’s tweet, I would append, “and God bless America.”
There’s this.
God bless Oklahoma.
Chris Cuomo would rather the woman defended her baby with attitude.
No Sonny, no Michael, just a couple of Fredos.
Chris Cuomo should know better, especially as a Catholic:
I’m under no illusion that Chris Cuomo has ever read the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
G-d made man and woman, but Smith & Wesson made them equal.
We’re surprised someone said something stupid on Twitter?
Conrad’s story and subsequent abuses by politicians have been gracing the pages of the NRA magazines for quite a while now.
Even Senator Feinbstein (at one time a concelaed permit holder) talked openly about carrying a gun for protection:
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273989-feinstein-doesnt-have-concealed-carry-permit-anymore
Of course, the article tries to steer the discussion towards the pro-gun control viewpoint, but DiFi’s words are there. So if a high-powered politician has a clear threat and can carry a gun for protection, why not an ordinary woman with no clear threat, but is aware of random violence which does occur?