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Anyone, who is in a relationship with a partner with a gun needs to consider this:
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A gun is a powerful weapon as much for its ability to intimidate as to kill.
"You don't even have to point it at her," Phillips says. It doesn't matter if it is a handgun he fires at the range on weekends or a rifle he takes hunting. He only has to clean it in front of her, put it on the bedside nightstand as she sleeps, or carry it on his hip to make a point.
And people who have been struck by a mack truck are 20 times more likely to die than people who have been struck by a tricycle.
Of course someone being abused by someone with a gun is more likely to be killed than someone being abused by a person without a gun.
Duh.
If you want to make a useful point, point out whether spouses of gun owners are more likely to be abused than spouses of non-gun owners. Otherwise you're just stating the obvious.
Battered women who have been threatened or assaulted with a gun — even once — are 20 times as likely than other battered women to be murdered. Those who have been choked are 10 times more likely to be killed.
But those who have been choked with guns are 200 times more likely to be killed. amiright?
Ironic isn't it? The op speaks of how all men who own guns use them to intimidate woman, but in reality, that is exactly what the OP and the author of the snippet are trying to do.... intimidate. Intimidate men who own guns.
OP, your transparent attempt to further your mission to demonizing guns and the people who own them... was a poor one.
A woman loves a partner who calls her names or yells at her.
A woman loves a partner who shoves, pinches, hits, punches, kicks or otherwise hurts her.
A woman loves a partner who destroys her belongings.
A woman loves a partner who threatens to hurt her, the children, or pets.
You can take the gun out of the equation, but you can't eliminate the bad boy groupie mentality that draws these women to prison inmates, illiterate hood rats and violent drug addicts.
Without brain dead women actively seeking out the lowest form of sewer slime to attach themselves to, there is no domestic violence.
Op, you making it sound like there is a correlation between gun owners and men who abuse women.
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I didn't get that from reading the article.
It's obvious that if there is a weapon in the house it will be more deadly for the abuse victim than if the abuser has no weapon.
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