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>Domestic violence against women is a thing because men are almost always bigger and stronger than women, meaning without access to a weapon every woman is pote
by wing-_-nuts 5y ago
>Domestic violence against women is a thing because men are almost always bigger and stronger than women, meaning without access to a weapon every woman is potentially vulnerable to the violence of a man.
Sadly, it often turns out that firearms are often turned against women in a household:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9125010/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9125010/
>readily available firearms place women at particularly high risk of homicide at the hands of a spouse, an intimate acquaintance, or a close relative.
It's hard to secure a firearm against one's partner.
- brightball 5y agoIt is, but how different would any of those situations have turned out without a firearm with a violent man usually twice the size of the woman at risk?
- wing-_-nuts 5y agoStudies have shown that the more 'detached' one is from the actual act of violence, the easier that violence is to commit. All you have to do is look at domestic violence homicides in other similar countries to see that introducing guns to domestic disturbances is a recipe for people going to the morgue instead of the hospital.