>>45 Again, environmental determinism. Women can't be held responsible for their actions. Society must be changed in order to better accommodate them. Some freedoms must be removed for the sake of keeping women safe. Prostitution should remain largely illegal, and we should pass federal laws making it illegal everywhere, to override any unjust local and state laws that allow it there.
Women are oppressed by our current society, and women will not be able to be elevated to their proper respectful position among society until the abuses on them stop. This starts with getting the following ideas in motion:
Pornography should be closely monitored and regulated by authorities. With the governments new powers granted it under various bits of legislation, I believe we have the power and the authority to make this all happen.
Prostitution should be federally banned as disrespectful to women, at the very least. Women are not chunks of meat to be bought and sold. We need more and stricter gun laws, and we should participate with the U.N. and other affiliated organizations (
http://www.iansa.org/), and elect presidents who will promote their pro-women anti-violence plans (
http://www.wagv.org/). The Bush administration and their appointee John Bolton has failed to do this.
We need people who will hold the firearms industry accountable, and we should be doing to them what we did to big tobacco in the past. The tobacco industries have cost lives, as have the firearms industries, and should be severely punished. We should combat attempts by the republicans to stop lawsuits against the firearms industry. They are to be held partly responsible for this violence epidemic.