Why Don’t Battered Women Get Guns?

[sealybobo]

You don't have the right to "blow someone away" for violating a restraining order.

You should have the right to blow away a person who violates a restraining order. Why is a restraining order granted to someone by a judge? What is the reason someone seeks one?

And was the person who violated warned?

These dual tragedies are extremely common in the United States. An incident in which an abuser kills their partner and then dies by suicide happens on average more than once a day, according to a separate study published last year. Of those tragedies, 93% involved a firearm and 95% were women killed by male partners.

Most perpetrators were legally barred from owning a firearm due to a domestic violence restraining order or conviction of a felony or misdemeanor charge of domestic violence.

A victim of domestic violence can get a restraining order against her abuser, legally barring the person from owning a gun, but a restraining order means very little if law enforcement doesn’t come to the house and remove all firearms.

“The laws work, but they don’t implement themselves.”

 

[d0gbreath]

Their abusive husbands won't let them? Bad joke, this one is worse:

Why are there 300,000 battered women in the US today? Because they JUST WON'T LISTEN!

 

[sealybobo]

Their abusive husbands won't let them? Bad joke, this one is worse:

Why are there 300,000 battered women in the US today? Because they JUST WON'T LISTEN!

What do you tell a woman with two black eyes? Nuthin. I done already told her twice. She won’t listen.

If guns are truly the answer why didn’t we arm Afghanistan women right before we left? Serious question.

 

[protectionist]

Because left wing talking points have made many women think guns are icky.

Most leftist women do think negatively about guns. They never served in the military or police. Never handled or even touched a gun. Got no training in public schools from gun brainless teachers.

But not all leftwing/Democrat women are that way >>

 

[protectionist]

If guns are truly the answer why didn’t we arm Afghanistan women right before we left? Serious question.

Because Biden was in charge.

 

[sealybobo]

Because Biden was in charge.

Nah. This is much bigger than that. I just don't understand why more American men don't raise their daughters to know how to use guns and keep one hidden in the home. If I had a daughter, for sure she'd have a gun and some fighting experience so she knows how to handle herself and keep her wits about her as she's going for the gun. Don't panic. Even though who's not going to panic, right?

My niece, we were in the store with her mom and aunt and I was hanging with her. I asked what if someone did THIS and I grabbed her arm and started walking her towards the exit. She was stunned for a second. Well, now she'll be a little more prepared if it ever happens. I asked her what she would do and we talked about it. She almost kicked my head off. LOL. Good kid. Men are fucked up. I watch all the shows of real crime. A lot of psychopaths. If I can't have her no one can.

If guns were the answer, why didn't we arm all the Afghanistan women before we left?

 

[sealybobo]

Because Biden was in charge.

No it's not. You said Biden left billions of dollars of weapons in Afghanistan. For the women. Didn't they get them? Oops.

According to a 2023 survey, 20% of women in the United States own a gun, compared to 41% of men

Based on these numbers, a lot of conservative women don't like guns either. Just like a lot of them didn't like slavery but what can they say to their Mississippi Burning husbands?

 

[Captain Caveman]

Why don't battered women get guns?
Guns make women less safe.

• Women are more likely to be killed by an intimate partner with a firearm than by a stranger with all methods combined.
• A 2020 California study found that the risk of suicide is 35x higher for women who are gun owners, compared to women who do not own guns. And in the first year after the purchase of a handgun, suicide was the leading cause of death among handgun purchasers, accounting for 51.9 percent of deaths among women 21 to 44 years old.
• From 2006 to 2015, 36% of murders of young women between the ages of 15 and 29 were committed by an intimate partner or family member, and 54% of those murders were committed with a gun.
• Access to a gun in domestic violence situations makes it 5x more likely that the woman will die. And a California study found that women who purchased a gun were 2x more likely to die by firearm homicide than women who did not own guns.
• From 2006 to 2015, out of the more than 1,550 young women killed with a gun in domestic violence situations, 65% were murdered by a dating partner.
• Every month, an average of 57 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner.
• Nearly half of mass shootings are domestic violence-related.
• In 2017, for every time a woman used a firearm to kill in self defense, more than 60 women were killed with a firearm (43 vs. 2,606 cases).
• Firearm violence was the second leading cause of death for Black women in 2012.
• In a 2021 study of women experiencing houselessness, nearly half had been attacked with a gun as an adult.
• A San Francisco study of women in unstable housing conditions found that 48% had experienced physical violence with a weapon.