CBS Reporter Lara Logan At Home; On Sick Comments

After a horrible incident in Egypt, where CBS Reporter Lara Logan was raped and brutally assaulted, she's returned home. (The use of the word "rape" has become an issue itself, which is why it's mentioned: while CBS is not using the term "rape" but "sexual assault" is commonly associated with the crime of rape, thus the use of the the term around the Internet and in a number of television news reports). But another kind of assault on her is being done online, and that's by a large number of commenters.

Some have written a collection of words that make this blogger wonder how they would feel if someone wrote that about them. Many of the comments, which will not see the light of day here, are just plain sick. The bottom line is that what happened to Lara Logan should be considered the last straw, and what I said and wrote, I stand by: she and other reporters should be able to carry guns. I said it here:



And again, I'm not a "card-carrying member of the NRA," but in the specific case of what's happened to TV journalists, and more often female TV reporters, of late, it's hard to see anything other than the threat of using a gun as a deterrent to the behavior they've suffered from.

Some have said that a gun would have been taken from her.  Why?  Because she's a woman?  If that's the fear, have her, and others, take strength-training lessons from female bodybuilders.  I refuse to believe that could happen, and assertions to the contrary show how women are regarded, even by other women, as weak.

Enough is enough.