Where did I say it was the entire left?
Why, right here:
Again: Where did I say it was the entire left?
I said it was a suggestion by leftists.
Can you honestly not see how you erred?
Erred? Er, I didn't err. You erred. Let's break it down to the root:
"the leftist recommendation"
Recommendation is the noun,
leftist the adjective. It means the recommendation is a leftist one, which means it carries the nature of "the left". Yet not only haven't you made that case (blanket generalization), you haven't even made the case for how it emanated from "the left" at all (strawman). Because number one, it came from a college campus written by nobody knows who, and number two,
it's not even a political statement.
Ergo U R in error.
Can you see conservatives making those absurd suggestions? I can't.

Again, it's not even a political statement, so anyone could make it.
Glad to meetcha. Heard a lot about ya.
Possibly, but she's even more likely to hurt some bystander, including herself. Especially if she loses control of that firearm, in which case she's in danger of more than rape.
More likely to hurt a bystander?
Got link?
Seriously, you need a link for that?
OK, here:
gun1 [guhn] Show IPA noun, verb, gunned, gun·ning.
noun
1. a weapon consisting of a metal tube, with mechanical attachments, from which projectiles are shot by the force of an explosive; a piece of ordnance. (
dic.com)
Suppose the nuclear bomb had never been invented. Then tomorrow you invent it, and you get to decide who gets one. Should everyone get one, to prevent aggressive countries from raping the weaker ones? Or should no one get one?
Comparing personal firearms to nuclear weapons. Wow.
So what's your bright idea? What can women do to deter rapists?
If they went out dressed like your avatar I think they'd be pretty safe, although personally I find it fetching, you wanton hussy.
Since I'm not a woman it would be almost as presumptuous to make that call as it would be to opine on abortion, but the simple answers are in no way limited to what she carries, but as far as that limited list there are several devices women know better than I that, if taken away as would always be attempted in such an encounter, would not produce a threat to those around her nor herself. Which would include, since we live in a gun culture, a fake or unloaded gun.
As to the analogy: obviously a nuclear weapon is far more serious than a simple handgun; but by the same token a simple handgun is far more serious than no gun at all.
But then you're not a woman either, so keep your space suit on. I think women can think for themselves without us patronizing them.