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What in the holy fuck do you think is going on in bathrooms?

Every once in a while females get raped and otherwise assaulted there. No, not by actual transgender lunatics — by "regular" perverts.

For security and/or police to be able to prevent such assaults, a law explicitly banning men in women's bathrooms may be necessary — without it, such people can not be removed from there preemptively

Implying that rape and sexual assault being illegal is not enough you also have to mandate who uses what toilet?

What in the holy fuck do you think is going on in bathrooms?

Every once in a while females get raped and otherwise assaulted there. No, not by actual transgender lunatics — by "regular" perverts.

For security and/or police to be able to prevent such assaults, a law explicitly banning men in women's bathrooms may be necessary — without it, such people can not be removed from there preemptively.

Republicans are against big government but want government to monitor their [obsenity] bathrooms.

Not "their" — the law is about public (and otherwise publicly accessible) bathrooms. You can still pee however you want in yours, even if — thanks to certain Democrats — you aren't free to properly flush afterwards.

A lot of people keep saying that harassment has risen, but so far all I've seen is a big load of shit:

http://pix11.com/2016/12/14/mu...
http://www.bostonherald.com/ne...
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Most recent ground strike I could find was near the end of last year. http://america.aljazeera.com/a...

Hitting homes is however much more common such as yesterday. http://pix11.com/2016/07/23/1-...

Its a small problem but a problem none the less.

Taxi driver in midtown horror suspended, but NOT for crash ...

I'm guessing this isn't true. A tazi driver gets road rage, maims a woman. No charges filed!!!!!!!!!!!

This is entirely the wrong issue to focus on. Rampage killers are a rarity: a mere seven in 2012 was considered unusually high. Compare that to the number of homicides in 2010: 14,748. If you ignore firearms, that number is still almost 5,000 -- 700 times higher than an unusual cluster of rampage killings. Source: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/homicide.html

Why is New York focusing on rifles anyway? Just before the Newtown massacre, a man was shot execution-style on one of New York City's streets with a handgun in broad daylight: http://pix11.com/2012/12/12/mystery-behind-execution-style-shooting-in-midtown-deepens-even-as-investigators-learn-more/

Handguns are the preferred weapon of criminals, and there is a huge black market for handguns. Why should we distract ourselves with the occasional massacre when we have a very real problem with criminal gun use? Criminals almost never use rifles -- rifles are too big to conceal easily, they make too much noise, and their accuracy at long distances is useless for the kind of fights criminals deal with. People need to stop wasting their time being terrified of guns that look scary and start focusing on the guns that are routinely used to murder people.