Gun Policy News
Time to Block Gun Violence Against Women in America
8 October 2013
Reuters
If October is like every other month, 46 women in the United States will be murdered with a gun by an intimate partner.
Public attention was gripped by the most recent mass shooting, at the Navy Yard in Washington, but during Domestic Violence Awareness month, we need to focus on the fact that women face a heightened risk of gun violence.
Women are more than three-and-a-half times as likely to be killed by an intimate partner as men. A gun in a household with a... (GunPolicy.org)