Researchers analyzed data on homicide rates across the country from a number of different agencies between 1990 to 2016, and the study confirms the well-established connection between gun access and a
busive relationships becoming deadly. Both men and women were at higher risk for domestic homicide when firearm ownership increased, but Dr. Kivisto said an important caveat is that,
“...whereas men are victims in about three out of four typical homicides that occur, it fully reverses when we are talking about intimate partner homicide,” Dr. Kivisto said. “Women are three in four victims of intimate partner homicide.”American Journal of Public Health that found that victims were five times more likely to be killed if their abuser has access to a gun.
True to form, The National Rifle Association said that the study ignored certain factors that contribute to violence: “The study fails to include factors that organizations like the F.B.I. recognize as contributing to violent crime,” Lars Dalseide, a spokesman for the N.R.A., said in a statement on Monday. “State funding of law enforcement and social services should be the most relevant factors considered when addressing domestic violence and this study fails to control for either.”The research also found that in 2017, 926 of 1,527 women murdered by partners were killed with guns.
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