Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumA New Report Shows How Hard It Is to Keep Guns Away from Domestic Abusers
The authors—the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy and Prosecutors Against Gun Violence—offer a prescription for how to plug up those gaps. The report serves as a solid goal post for states with lax laws and those struggling to enforce decent ones. But even the folks behind the recommendations concede they won't tackle domestic gun violence alone, which speaks to the ongoing and existential challenge posed by the patchwork of weak gun laws in America.
After all, domestic gun violence is "a multi-pronged problem," according to Hollye Dexter, an activist with Women Against Gun Violence. "We've got to come at it from a lot of different directions."
Domestic gun violence often involves a man killing his current or former partner or family, and almost never makes the news like random public shootings. But these tragedies take a toll: Of 2,707 female homicide victims in 2013, nearly half were related to or involved with the killer. Going by recent FBI data, over half of such "partner-related" murders would have been shootings. According to the gun control advocacy group Every Town for Gun Safety, domestic incidents also made up a disproportionate number—57 percent—of mass shootings under the FBI definition (at least four people shot dead in one incident) between 2009 and 2015. Eighty-one percent of the victims in those shootings were women and children.
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rjsquirrel
(4,762 posts)of raging domestic abusers and gun nutter RKBA open carry middle aged impotent losers will show significant overlap -- in fact whenever I see a civilian man with an open carried gun I assume -- for my own safety-- that he is a violent, abupsive, unstable, ignorant, dangerous person. After growing up in the south I've learned it's a good assumption.
These men -- mostly out of shape, badly educated, and implacably resentful -- are the heart of the gun nutter constituency. We all know it is about their masculinity, not the constitution or self defense.
DonP
(6,185 posts)The Venn Diagram in your head is irrelevant to reality. No wonder gun control fans never get anything accomplished and keep sinking lower and lower.
But, as most bigots discover, it's far easier to just treat what you consider your opposition as something less than human and evil.
It worked for a lot of Sheriff's in the South back in the '50's and '60's for a while and is still working for the GOP. Nice company to keep.
So keep up the insults and I'm sure you'll sway lots of people to your way of thinking with name calling. Being ignorant, insulting and condescending is always an effective argument and it's been working so well for your side too.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)DonP
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GGJohn
(9,951 posts)you really need to seek professional help with these delusions of yours.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,604 posts)...well, actually I do. I don't think gunz cause anger and I hear lots of assaults especially the DV type start with arguments and anger.
I'm worried. I see a lot of anger among those control types. 
DonP
(6,185 posts)The overlay of domestic violence most closely coincides with alcohol abuse that fuels the anger and arguments.
Our control minded friends would rather ignore anything that fuels the violence. Easier to focus on the instrumentality than the cause.
In other words, business as usual for the control folks.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,604 posts)Banning alcohol would really drop the DUI problems a lot but since DUI is only one aspect of distracted and impaired driving, what's really needed is a ban on cars. 
ileus
(15,396 posts)Eleanors38
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)Pornography, tattoo equipment, and a host of other contraband out of the most secure prisons in the United States....
...and the stupidity of some who believe it is possible to ban anything whatsoever out of existence in a free society...dummies will be dummies....
ileus
(15,396 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)Gun control never disarms criminals, only their victims.