{"id":1311,"date":"2013-02-20T14:49:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2013-02-20T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:49:45","slug":"colorado-college-advises-vomiting-or-urinating-to-stop-rapists-after-lawmakers-pass-gun-control-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/20\/colorado-college-advises-vomiting-or-urinating-to-stop-rapists-after-lawmakers-pass-gun-control-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado College Advises Vomiting Or Urinating To Stop Rapists After Lawmakers Pass Gun Control Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Department of Public Safety has updated an online statement advising female students to consider a variety of unusual actions if they are attacked, including vomiting, urinating and claiming that they are menstruating.<\/p>\n

The advisory was updated Monday evening, just hours after the Colorado state House of Representatives passed a package of gun control bills that includes one that would make it illegal for people with concealed weapons permits to carry guns on the campuses of public universities. The bills still have to go to the state Senate and governor.<\/p>\n

Some of the pieces of advice which were updated Monday evening on the university\u2019s public safety website are ones that many would find familiar, from running away without looking back to \u201cyelling, hitting or biting\u201d your attacker.<\/p>\n

But the following two suggestions are a little stranger and are already causing quite the outcry on social media: \u201cTell your attacker that you have a disease or are menstruating,\u201d and \u201cVomiting or urinating may also convince the attacker to leave you alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

These less-conventional methods for fighting off a would-be rapist are apparently part of Rape Aggression Defense Systems, a class that the school\u2019s public safety department promotes as a means for female students to boost their self-defense skills.<\/p>\n

But the fact that the site providing the pointers was updated at 6:30 p.m. Monday suggests that the move may have been motivated by the Colorado House\u2019s passage on Monday of HB 1226, which would ban all people \u2014 including concealed-weapons permit holders \u2014 from carrying guns on the campuses of the state\u2019s public universities.<\/p>\n

The House passed the bill on Monday by a vote of 34-31, but not before it became the center of a major controversy when Democratic state Rep. Joe Salazar made comments during Friday\u2019s debate arguing that students should not have access to guns to protect themselves from being raped.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s why we have call boxes, it\u2019s why we have safe zones, it\u2019s why we have the whistles,\u201d Salazar said, according to KDVR News. \u201cBecause you just don\u2019t know who you\u2019re gonna be shooting at. And you don\u2019t know if you feel like you\u2019re gonna be raped, or if you feel like someone\u2019s been following you around or if you feel like you\u2019re in trouble when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop \u2014 pop around at somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Full article: http:\/\/www.ibtimes.c \u2026 ss-gun-control-bills<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Department of Public Safety has updated an online statement advising female students to consider a variety of unusual actions if they are attacked, including vomiting, urinating and claiming that they are menstruating. The advisory was updated Monday evening, just hours after the Colorado state House of Representatives passed a package of gun control bills that includes one that would make it illegal for people with concealed weapons permits to carry guns on the campuses of public universities. The bills still have to go to the state Senate and governor. Some of the pieces of advice which were updated Monday evening on the university\u2019s public safety website are ones that many would find familiar, from running away without looking back to \u201cyelling, hitting or biting\u201d your attacker. But the following two suggestions are a little stranger and are already causing quite the outcry on social media: \u201cTell your attacker that you have a disease or are menstruating,\u201d and \u201cVomiting or urinating may also convince the attacker to leave you alone.\u201d These less-conventional methods for fighting off a would-be rapist are apparently part of Rape Aggression Defense Systems, a class that the school\u2019s public safety […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[98,1864],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-university-of-colorado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}