I think we all hope that. My guess is, though, that it is unlikely given the privileged way this kid grew up. When you’re the star athlete in high school, women rarely come forward when you sexually assault them. I would bet there’s one or two in his HS history that just have no desire to come forward.

Yeah, who needs to follow the penal code when you have the bro code?

I also just saw that the minimum sentence for rape is actually 2 years. So not sure what the hell the judge was doing here, other than violating sentencing laws.

I do think, though, that there is still a point here to make. And that is that a disability can cause all sorts of progressive problems. He was never going to get better, only worse. Every day his muscles deteriorated more, and every day he faced the potential for another infection.

I should have made this clear - he does not have MS in the book. He is a quadriplegic who has severe issues (other than the paralysis). For example, his body cannot regulate temperature and he is frequently getting infections. He is constantly uncomfortable and in pain. There are all sorts of other issues, but my…

I read the book. I thought that the author did a good job of explaining his disability and all of the effects it had on his daily life. She did focused very much on the fact that it was his choice to make, and how everyone else struggled to accept his choice after trying every way possible to talk him out of it. I…

I read the book. It spends a lot of time describing his quality of life and how it will never improve. I am not a medical professional, but the effects of his particular disability seemed well-researched.

I wouldn’t expect any vics to come forward after the way this victim was treated. Why would they? So he can get another 3 months in jail and they can get dragged through hell to convict him? Doesn’t really seem worth it.

So you’re saying the Stanford rapist has either done it before or will do it again? Shocking. Good thing he only got 6 months for that 20 minutes of action, since I’m sure he will never again be a threat to society.

If you read the story, the teachers were fine with the hat until it started disrupting the classroom and causing issues among the students, particularly the non-white kids who are terrified of Trump. The First Amendment doe snot protect content-based speech that is disruptive to the learning environment. And, let’s be…

The dog knows what’s up.

Gee, I can’t imagine how this guy thought raping someone was ok with a father like that. Clearly he grew up learning how to take responsibility for his actions, among other lessons on how to be a decent human being.

Well said.

Thanks for that speech, which I received about a hundred times growing up around guns and then again when I took my class for my CWP. I know exactly what you mean. And I am not saying that Dash in any way is the model of what a woman carrying a gun for protection means. I am simply pointing out that she had a…

I hear the sentiment all the time. People look at certain Western European countries, for example, where individuals cannot own guns and compare the violence there to the violence in the United States (particularly things like mass shootings). But there is no practical way to get to that point in the United States.…

I can read just fine. Can you? Where do I say anything about “legislation”?

Oh, yeah. I’m 100% with you on nobody having guns. I just don’t know how we achieve that in this country given the proliferation of guns. But I think a lot of us would agree that the best case scenario in terms of safety would be no private citizens owning guns.

I never said any did. My point is that we continually have this debate in the country about whether individuals should have the right to own guns or not. I was not addressing any specific legislation.

Yeah, but you are exactly the sort of person that I am referring to in my original post. It is a philosophical argument that people in the United States have all the time - should individuals really have the right to own guns? That is the argument that I was addressing. And I agree with you. If we could somehow get…

I did not say anyone was trying to stop her from having a gun. I was commenting on the fact that many of us tend to believe that private gun ownership should not be allowed, period, in the United States. But that her story was a good reminder that women, in particular, may have legitimate reasons for wanting to own…