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Missed opportunity not to photoshop the model name as a “colt rape whistle” on the picture
Mossberg makes a rape siren
apart from their literal cycle of violence in racking a pump action, shotties have a choke, and thus a tendency to perpetuate rape culture.
they can also dispense hot salty loads, come to think of it
That’s weird because Lockheed makes an oil alarm.
It’s a joint venture product
That’s a sick ass statue
Gun control is sexist
I can’t believe this country hates women more than it loves guns
I don’t think attempting to blow into one of these is going to help matters.
Instruction unclear, mind blown 🤯
No. You blow the assailant away.
Good news is, the sound of blowing the assailant away will draw the police to you.
and if you are white, they will say you defended yourself. (Results may vary if you aren’t… you may be held for murder, or shot on sight).
What’s a rape whistle?
It is a whistle(like a referee uses to make a sound) a woman uses if she feels or knows she is going to be harmed in some way so as to call attention to her and hopefully get help with her situation.
Basically, the meme is telling women to shoot their attackers.
What confused me was that a whistle would be used by holding to your mouth, so I assumed it made fun of suicide. Good thing it was just my stupid brain overthinking again.
A whistling blowgun would be in the spirit of the thread. Some of history’s grandest feminists have been skilled in using poisons
It was a thing back in the day (maybe still, just to a lesser extent?) they gave women whistles to blow when being sexually assaulted. But found that nobody really responds to a whistle. So then they said to scream rape, but again, most people didn’t bother. Last I heard, they said that yelling “fire!” Was more likely to get someone to help you. Or ya know… Don’t rely on help from an apathetic populace.
I think that’s the point of a rape whistle, people might ignore a call for help, but will instinctively look towards a shrill piercing whistle.
They might not help, but extra visibility might deter the attacker.
There was the horrifying story of Kitty Genovese in New York in 1968. Edit 1964
It was a horrific story. Fortunately, it’s not actually true.
Researchers have since uncovered major inaccuracies in the Times article, and police interviews revealed that some witnesses had attempted to contact authorities. In 1964, reporters at a competing news organization discovered that the Times article was inconsistent with the facts, but they were unwilling at the time to challenge Times editor Abe Rosenthal. In 2007, an article in the American Psychologist found “no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive”.[7] In 2016, the Times called its own reporting “flawed”, stating that the original story “grossly exaggerated the number of witnesses and what they had perceived”
Wow, I stand corrected. TIL thanks.
The problems that get left out of that story’s narrative IIRC was that she was inside her apartment building’s lobby. Like yes people should have responded (assuming they could actually hear her, most apartment lobbies aren’t built with acoustics in mind) but that’s way different from there actually being like 20 people in the street looking on as the Bystander Effect implies.
EDIT today I learned that the reports of witnesses and their inaction was grossly exaggerated by an unscrupulous journalist. So the following statement is almost entirely fabricated. My apologies. Comment left intact for transparency.
38 people in her neighborhood admitted to hearing her and choosing not to intervene. They all gave different reasons for not helping.
Yeaaahhh, I don’t know why but I was thinking that was like 10 years later.
Count yourself lucky you’ve never needed one. If you’re being assaulted, to signal for help.
Get something without a manual safety if you’re going to carry it. If you have to pull it, you don’t want to be dicking around with the safety when adrenaline is hampering your fine motor skills.
I believe more important is to train on your kit. If you know how your gun works with ‘muscle memory’, you won’t even need to think about dicking around with the manual safety- it’ll be done my the time you think about it.
Even if you get one without the manual safety: train on that. The familiarity and comfort of the wielder is far more important a factor than any particular component of the gun.
I like to fiddle with the little lever that goes between single round, burst, and fully automatic, kind of like a fidget spinner or a finger skateboard. But it’s also good to just bind it to Mouse4 right next to a bind to switch to your knife, you know, so you can run faster
Training on what you’re going to carry is important, but all the training in the world can’t prepare you for the real thing. Adrenaline is going to interfere with your fine motor skills. It’s just a natural consequence.
Yeah I’ve only ever had one handgun with a safety and I never carried it.
