NRA News Host Lectures College Students: ‘Burden’ of Stopping Sexual Assaults ‘Is on the Victim’
National Rifle Association News host Cam Edwards lashed out at a Daily Tar Heel editorial that argued guns are not the solution to campus sexual assault by claiming that the “burden” of stopping sexual assaults and other violent crimes as they occur “is on the victim.”
According to Edwards, “it is the truth that if you are the victim of violent crime or the victim of an attempted violent crime, it is not the patriarchy that puts the burden on you to defend yourself, it is not rigid gender roles, it is — it’s a fact of life.”
In a March 22 editorial, independent student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel criticized national group Students for Concealed Carry for raising the issue of campus sexual assault in a gambit to loosen rules on carrying guns on public campuses in North Carolina.
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