Obama Gun Measures Are for Wives, Ex-Lovers, Too

[SecularMotion]

(WOMENSENEWS)--Jennifer Lynch, an amateur photographer in Portland, Ore., was planning to leave her husband and start over with her cat, her dog and her camera.

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]

1. I know a woman who shot her abuser husband. He beat her regularly

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]

2. This post is sexist.

Buddha would approve?

[friendly_iconoclast]

3. One thing became obvious long ago: For gun Prohibitionists, the ends justify ANY means

Deliberate factual inaccuracy, advocacy of theocracy, sexism- all grist for the mill...

[jmg257]

4. Definitely. A long time poster here used to argue the dangers of arms in the home to women

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]

5. Living with a violent criminal is very dangerous.

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]

6. Universal background checks and increased penalties for straw purchases

will help keep violent criminals from obtaining guns,

[GreenStormCloud]

7. Agreed. N/T

[Glaug-Eldare]

8. Background checks are good, but...

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.

[slackmaster]

9. The best way to avoid domestic violence is to not live with an abusive person