February 29, 2016
By Laura Wagner
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (click here) drew gasps on Monday when he asked several questions during oral arguments.
Thomas, who hadn't asked a question since Feb. 22, 2006, broke 10 years of near silence during a case, Voisine v. U.S., involving a federal law preventing people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from owning firearms.
The justices were hearing appeals from two Maine men who say their guilty pleas for hitting their partners should not disqualify them from gun ownership. The hour-long session was coming to a close when Thomas leaned forward and spoke into the microphone to ask Justice Department lawyer Ilana Eisenstein whether a misdemeanor conviction of any other law "suspends a constitutional right," The Associated Press reports....
I can't believe the accepted this case. It isn't as though the men leave and don't carry anger when they are either forced to leave or simply leave because the relationship was dissolved. These men come back to kill. I can understand how a single man with no connection to his ex-spouse or girlfriend might think he has a right to have guns again, but, the statistics prove there is sincere danger even when the couple no longer is together.
Either background searches mean something or not.
January 1, 2012
Guns increase the probability of death (click here) in incidents of domestic violence.
Firearms were used to kill more than two-thirds of spouse and ex-spouse homicide victims between 1990 and 2005.
Domestic violence assaults involving a firearm are 12 times more likely to result in death than those involving other weapons or bodily force.
Abused women are five times more likely to be killed by their abuser if the abuser owns a firearm.
A recent survey of female domestic violence shelter residents in California found that more than one third (36.7%) reported having been threatened or harmed with a firearm. In nearly two thirds (64.5%) of the households that contained a firearm, the intimate partner had used the firearm against the victim, usually threatening to shoot or kill the victim.
Laws that prohibit the purchase of a firearm by a person subject to a domestic violence restraining order are associated with a reduction in the number of intimate partner homicides.
Between 1990 and 2005, individuals killed by current dating partners made up almost half of all spouse and current dating partner homicides..
By Laura Wagner
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (click here) drew gasps on Monday when he asked several questions during oral arguments.
Thomas, who hadn't asked a question since Feb. 22, 2006, broke 10 years of near silence during a case, Voisine v. U.S., involving a federal law preventing people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence from owning firearms.
The justices were hearing appeals from two Maine men who say their guilty pleas for hitting their partners should not disqualify them from gun ownership. The hour-long session was coming to a close when Thomas leaned forward and spoke into the microphone to ask Justice Department lawyer Ilana Eisenstein whether a misdemeanor conviction of any other law "suspends a constitutional right," The Associated Press reports....
I can't believe the accepted this case. It isn't as though the men leave and don't carry anger when they are either forced to leave or simply leave because the relationship was dissolved. These men come back to kill. I can understand how a single man with no connection to his ex-spouse or girlfriend might think he has a right to have guns again, but, the statistics prove there is sincere danger even when the couple no longer is together.
Either background searches mean something or not.
January 1, 2012
Guns increase the probability of death (click here) in incidents of domestic violence.
Firearms were used to kill more than two-thirds of spouse and ex-spouse homicide victims between 1990 and 2005.
Domestic violence assaults involving a firearm are 12 times more likely to result in death than those involving other weapons or bodily force.
Abused women are five times more likely to be killed by their abuser if the abuser owns a firearm.
A recent survey of female domestic violence shelter residents in California found that more than one third (36.7%) reported having been threatened or harmed with a firearm. In nearly two thirds (64.5%) of the households that contained a firearm, the intimate partner had used the firearm against the victim, usually threatening to shoot or kill the victim.
Laws that prohibit the purchase of a firearm by a person subject to a domestic violence restraining order are associated with a reduction in the number of intimate partner homicides.
Between 1990 and 2005, individuals killed by current dating partners made up almost half of all spouse and current dating partner homicides..
