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More than 1,600 women were murdered by men in 2013 and the most common weapon used was a gun, according to the new Violence Policy Center study When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2013 Homicide Data. In 2013, South Carolina highest rate of women murdered by men, followed by Alaska, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Nevada.”
Top Ten: South Carolina, Alaska, New Mexico, Louisiana, Nevada, Tennessee, Oklahoma (tied with TN) Vermont, Maine, Michigan
People with guns…kill. Men with guns kill women. It seems the 2nd Amendment is being applied to women since men don’t have anything else to shoot with a handgun /sarc and the US isn’t the only country with male gun violence targeting…. women.
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When you follow the money, billions are spent on guns, ammunition, transporting same to various countries in the world and it is men doing the selling and buying.
Here are the ”Big Six” exporters of weapons. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2012/06/big-six-arms-exporters and sadly though #6 Is the US.
”6. USA The United States is by far the world’s largest arms trader, accounting for around 30 per cent of conventional arms transfers in terms of value”
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This issue alone drive me crazy. Excellent article.
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Thank you, it gets to me every time I read or hear of another guy killing his wife, partner and/or also kills the kids. And the gun nuts keep on giving them guns to do it with
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Vermont is #8? WTF? I’m surprised Illinois and Missouri aren’t in the top 10.
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jward, I was too…
statistics are based on guidelines which in this study was how many per 100,000, if I remember right. Which makes Vermont being one of the top states to not be a woman in a domestic violence situation when her hubby/partner owns a gun.
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