PA Bill Number: HR541
Title: Recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
Description: A Resolution recognizing the month of October 2024 as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" in Pennsylvania.
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Last Action Date: Sep 27, 2024
U.S. Woman Makes Olympic History; Media Shrugs Because She's a Gun-Toting Conservative :: 08/16/2016
Skeet shooter Kim Rhode recently became the first athlete to win a medal in six consecutive Summer Olympic Games. She is the first woman to medal six straight games.
That’s a pretty impressive accomplishment! But it’s also problematic, because Rhode used a gun to win her medals, even if it’s the kind of gun that most gun control advocates don’t want to ban. Even more problematic is the fact that Rhode spoke at the Republican convention in 2012, and is a vocal defender of the Second Amendment.
“We should have the right to keep and bear arms, to protect ourselves and our family,” said Rhode in an interview with Time Magazine. “The Second Amendment was put in there not just so we can go shoot skeet or go shoot trap. It was put in so we could defend our First Amendment, the freedom of speech, and also to defend ourselves against our own government.”
Predictably, Rhode has not received anywhere near the accolades — whether from feminists or the media — for her historic accomplishment. CNN, for example, hasn’t published a story about Rhode since she won her medal and made history. (The most recent story was about her comments on gun control.)
Meanwhile, CNN has published numerous stories on Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first U.S. Olympian to compete wearing a hijab.
Celebrity pundits like Neil deGrasse Tyson and others snarked on Twitter that Americans should be doing much better at shooting events given our love for the Second Amendment.
The Los Angeles Times published a piece on Rhode — about how she “must deal with the reality of mass shooting.”
Few outlets have bothered writing about Rhode’s compelling personal story, and the challenges she had to overcome to make it to Rio. Following the London Olympics in 2012, the 37-year-old Rhode struggled through a difficult pregnancy that required surgery to remove her gall bladder. Because doctors advised her not to lift anything greater than five pounds during the recovery period, Rhode was unable to hold her infant son for several weeks. They also told her she could never become pregnant again.
Maybe it’s for the best, because we’ve also learned during the Rio Olympics that a female athlete who talks about being a mother is also very problematic
