Typical left-wing reasoning. I've said this before. In the eyes of a liberal, IF you are against some FEDERAL MANDATE or LAW, you in effect are against what ever the law or mandate talks about. In the eyes of the liberal, you CANNOT separate the two. So, if you are against the FEDERAL LAW AGAINST VIOLENCE directed at women, then it reasons that you are FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. Nothing in the liberal mindset allows local jurisdictions the flexibility to act on the subject, because of course, the interjection of the feds into the situation is paramount.
I was a cop for 20 years. I was only a cop for about a year when we get a call to a house regarding the reports of "domestic assault" in progress. Pulling up to the front door, I can see a guy sitting on this woman's chest beating the living dog shit out of her. Every time he punches her, he hits her so hard that the blood spatters on the wall. Wanting to be the hero, I run in and knock him off and jump on him trying to handcuff him. Yep, he's drunk as a skunk and he's fighting. I feel this poking on my back (I'm wearing a second-chance vest) and the woman telling me as best she can, to leave "my baby" alone. She can't talk too well because her mouth is all busted up and come to find out her jaw is broken in three places. I turn slightly to push her back when she runs a pair of scissors into my side about 4 inches deep. She punctures a lung. When my boss arrives, he knocks her out with a fist as she's trying to stab me again. At the hospital, after the surgery, my boss writes me a letter of reprimand and tells me that if I EVER do anything that stupid again, he'll just shoot me. She shows up at his trial and tells the judge that the big bad cops were SO MEAN to her husband, she was just protecting him. Ten years later, after a number of these type of fights, he finally kills her.
These type of situations DEFY REASON and SANITY. Even after the passing of the federal law, NOTHING CHANGED... NOTHING. If a woman is going to extract herself from the situation, then SHE has to do it. There are agencies to HELP, but they can't do it for her. Just like you can't MAKE a person leave drugs alone. They either will continue or if they've had enough, they will quit and they'll seek out help. But you CAN'T MAKE THEM.
And I have to add this part: Domestic assault and abuse is so low on the totum pole in local District Attorney's offices (refer to story above that happens all of the time), that to think that they are going to pursue a witness to one of these crimes even across the state is ridiculous. They don't and they won't. To get angry over the fact that illegal aliens can't get visas to stay "in country" while one of these things is prosecuted is ludicrous. The simple fact is, to get a woman to prosecute one of these things does not have favorable odds. Get real... and stop thinking that the feds should get involved in this. It's a local issue.
And I hate to tell you this, but passing a federal law is just window dressing. Expensive window dressing... but still just window dressing. I do not understand this liberal LOVE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.