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Marsha Hunt--Yesterday was the first day of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. According to statistical projections 46 women will be killed with a gun by a former or current boyfriend or husband by the end of the month of October.
Guns are an important part in turning domestic quarrels into murders. Author David Adams, who wrote the book “Why Do They Kill?” observed that guns were used in 92 percent of the murder-suicides he studied. He also noted that gun homicides were greater in states with lax gun laws.
The Violence Policy Project Center found in 1998 that nearly one million women suffered domestic violence at the hands of their partners. It was further stated that if a gun was present, the violence often escalated to cause the death of either partner, most often the woman.
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Marsha Hunt is a behavioral scientist and free-lance writer who covers a wide variety of topics including crime, psychology, forensics, and human rights.
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