I Studied 18 Years Worth of Domestic Violence Articles. Here’s What Journalists Can Do Better.
"Some couples fight and push or hit each other, but we need to differentiate between those situations and chronic, controlling violence."
"Some couples fight and push or hit each other, but we need to differentiate between those situations and chronic, controlling violence."
Private transactions, exceedingly slow reviews, and laws that don’t recognize the threat from abusers all pose steep challenges to keeping firearms away from people who can’t legally possess them.
Federal law bars convicted abusers from owning guns, but very few states enforce it.
Lawmakers and gun-rights advocates have called for arming abuse victims, but few battered women are mentally and emotionally prepared to pull the trigger.
The state and local level is often where the rubber meets the road when it comes to firearm policy.
Federal law bars convicted batterers from buying firearms, but often little is done to separate them from any weapons they already own.