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A reader asks whether strict gun laws reduce killings by intimate partners. Experts say yes, but some laws are more effective than others.
Domestic Violence
In coercive control, men use guns to threaten, manipulate, and traumatize their intimate partners, without ever pulling a trigger.
One million American women have survived a gunshot wound or been shot at, according to a 2016 review. But a gun doesn’t have to go off to cause harm in an abusive relationship. The same study estimated that 4.5 million…
A new study from the University of Pennsylvania finds that more than three quarters of domestic violence incidents involved dating partners, rather than spouses, a statistic that has potentially significant implications for protecting domestic abuse victims from gun violence.
Politicians and law enforcement officials across the country are beginning to experiment with new approaches to reducing domestic violence and gun deaths by forcing abusers who aren’t allowed to own guns to actually surrender weapons still in their possession. Under…
Women in America are shot to death by their current or former romantic partners with alarming regularity — once every 16 hours, as my colleague Jennifer Mascia has written. New research published today in the American Journal of Epidemiology offers…
One line of text in a document released after Sunday’s mass shooting in Texas should have stopped Devin Kelley from buying the guns he is thought to have used in the massacre. A crystal-clear warning on a now infamous,…
Background Checks
A year before committing Sunday’s mass shooting in a tight-knit church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, suspect Devin Kelley walked into a sporting goods store to buy a Ruger assault style rifle he should have been banned from owning because of…
Domestic abusers in Pennsylvania currently have 60 days to turn over their guns following a conviction. A bill pending in the state Legislature would narrow that window to 24 hours. The legislation would also refine the state’s gun-surrender…
“It’s a matter of life and death," says one survivor.
Commentary
He shot me, too, with a 9mm Glock. Now that's the gun I keep at home.
Nevada is the latest state to try to keep guns out of harassers' hands.
A new study finds that threats made with a firearm can worsen PTSD symptoms of domestic violence victims.
The greatest threat women face is from men they know. The criminal justice system doesn't always recognize that fact.
In a majority of cases, the killer is an intimate partner.
