Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumObama Gun Measures Are for Wives, Ex-Lovers, Too
But before she made it out of the house and her marriage, her husband shot her dead in the bath tub. It was Valentine's Day, 2006.
Since then, every year around Valentine's Day, Patricia Norling, Lynch's mother, visits the high school in Brookline, Mass., her hometown.
She tells students about her daughter, who grew up locally and who might still be alive if universal background checks, firearms research and other gun safety measures -- now advocated by President Barack Obama -- had come earlier. She also advises the students on ways to reduce their own risk of domestic assault.
http://womensenews.org/story/domestic-violence/130213/obama-gun-measures-are-wives-ex-lovers-too#.UR48OKPpXwo
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)The courts let her off. He had abused his children sexually. It was a miserable situation. Just making the point it can go both ways though it would be preferable if it did not happen in either case.
iiibbb
(1,448 posts)Buddha would approve?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Deliberate factual inaccuracy, advocacy of theocracy, sexism- all grist for the mill...
jmg257
(11,996 posts)all the time.
From the link:
"In 2010, 94 percent of female homicide victims were killed by someone they knew, according to the Violence Policy Center, a nonpartisan watchdog organization based in Washington, D.C.
In two-thirds of those deaths, the perpetrators were husbands, ex-husbands, common-law husbands or boyfriends (ex-boyfriends are not categorized in FBI data). More than half of the women (52 percent {+/-1800}) were shot, almost six times as many as were murdered by male strangers using all weapons combined.
"There is compelling evidence that a gun in the home is a risk factor for intimidation and for killing women," David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center at the Harvard School of Public Health, wrote in a 2011 review of the scientific literature."
Doen't seem that the most effective way to stop a bad guy with a gun would be a good woman with a gun.
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)In almost every case of domestic murder the killer already has committed previous violent crimes, and most of the time has prior convictions for violent crimes.
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)will help keep violent criminals from obtaining guns,
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)Glaug-Eldare
(1,089 posts)the whole "violence against women" aspect reminds me of how messed up our handgun transportation situation is here. I like illustrating it with this scenario:
A woman owns a handgn, is living with an abusive partner. After a physical conflict, she decides to escape to a friend's house to get away from him. If she brings her handgun with her for protection, she is transporting a handgun unlawfully and faces up to a $2,500 fine and three years in prison. The minimum is thirty days and $250. Legally, she's supposed to leave the gun with her abuser.