New study: More women shot & killed by domestic partners than all US soldiers who died in Iraq/Afgha

New study: More women shot & killed by domestic partners than all US soldiers who died in Iraq/Afgha
New study finds more women shot and killed by domestic partners than all US soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan


Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was nearly killed in a 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, and has since become a leading advocate for gun control, has embarked upon a campaign that aims to rally women to get behind tougher gun laws. Her efforts come as a new report showed that from 2001 through 2012, more women were shot and killed by intimate partners than all U.S. troops who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
http://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/GunsDomesticViolence2.pdf

“Women can lead the way,” Giffords told a panel discussion Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

In 2013, efforts to increase the scope of background checks to include online and gun show sales failed just four months after the killing of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

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“Criminals who have guns, stalkers who have guns, abusers who have guns that make them violent are an issue — for mothers, for families, for me and you,” Giffords said.


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