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PA: ‘My gun serves as an equalizer’: Raped as a Temple student, she now fights for gun rights
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And as the man she’d thought was a friend raped her, Lindquist thought of the handgun her grandfather had bought for her 10th birthday. The handgun sitting in her house in Virginia, nearly 300 miles away, instead of on her hip or at her bedside.
The handgun Lindquist believes could have saved her.
That night in 2016 became the dynamite that blasted away Lindquist’s life path, derailing her dreams of being her family’s first college graduate. In an instant, her views on gun rights morphed from theoretical to rooted in traumatic personal experience: If carrying firearms on campus were legal, she believes, her KelTec gun would have been in her apartment and she would not have been raped. |
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“There’s nothing that indicates that allowing campus carry has actually decreased crime on campus.”
There's nothing that indicates that it has increased, either.
Checkmate. |
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