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Domestic Abusers Can Lose Their Gun-Ownership Rights, Supreme Court Rules : The Two-Way : NPR
Supreme Court Rules Domestic Abusers Can Lose Their Gun-Ownership Rights
“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in a 6-2 vote that domestic abusers convicted of misdemeanors can be barred from owning firearms. The majority opinion, written by Justice Elena Kagan, concludes that misdemeanor assault convictions for domestic violence are sufficient to invoke a federal ban on firearms possession.
The plaintiffs in this case, Stephen Voisine and William Armstrong, both of Maine, had pleaded guilty in state court to misdemeanor assault charges after slapping or shoving their romantic partners. Several years later, each man was found to have firearms and ammunition in their possession in violation of a federal law affecting convicted domestic abusers………….
“Guns increase the probability of death in incidents of domestic violence. Firearms were used to kill more than two-thirds of spouse and ex-spouse homicide victims between 1990 and 2005.2
Domestic violence assaults involving a firearm are 12 times more likely to result in death than those involving other weapons or bodily force. Abused women are five times more likely to be killed by their abuser if the abuser owns a firearm………….
More than half of women murdered with guns in the U.S. in 2011 — at least 53 percent — were killed by intimate partners or family members
….”(Using) data from 2012, the most recent year for which national data are available. In that year, 1,706 females were murdered by males in single-victim/single-offender incidents. That’s 33 victims every week and more than four every day...........
AND ALSO HAVE MAINTAINED: States have the constitutional right to pass laws regulating the use of guns; and denying the rights of ownership to wife beaters and other sorts of riff-raff.......
SEE:
Statistics on Domestic Violence & Firearms | Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
https://everytownresearch.org/reports/guns-and-violence-against-women/
For Women, Gun Violence Often Linked to Domestic Violence
Supreme Court Rules Domestic Abusers Can Lose Their Gun-Ownership Rights
“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in a 6-2 vote that domestic abusers convicted of misdemeanors can be barred from owning firearms. The majority opinion, written by Justice Elena Kagan, concludes that misdemeanor assault convictions for domestic violence are sufficient to invoke a federal ban on firearms possession.
The plaintiffs in this case, Stephen Voisine and William Armstrong, both of Maine, had pleaded guilty in state court to misdemeanor assault charges after slapping or shoving their romantic partners. Several years later, each man was found to have firearms and ammunition in their possession in violation of a federal law affecting convicted domestic abusers………….
“Guns increase the probability of death in incidents of domestic violence. Firearms were used to kill more than two-thirds of spouse and ex-spouse homicide victims between 1990 and 2005.2
Domestic violence assaults involving a firearm are 12 times more likely to result in death than those involving other weapons or bodily force. Abused women are five times more likely to be killed by their abuser if the abuser owns a firearm………….
More than half of women murdered with guns in the U.S. in 2011 — at least 53 percent — were killed by intimate partners or family members
….”(Using) data from 2012, the most recent year for which national data are available. In that year, 1,706 females were murdered by males in single-victim/single-offender incidents. That’s 33 victims every week and more than four every day...........
AND ALSO HAVE MAINTAINED: States have the constitutional right to pass laws regulating the use of guns; and denying the rights of ownership to wife beaters and other sorts of riff-raff.......
SEE:
Statistics on Domestic Violence & Firearms | Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
https://everytownresearch.org/reports/guns-and-violence-against-women/
For Women, Gun Violence Often Linked to Domestic Violence