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Topic | Who Is Killing American Women? Their Husbands And Boyfriends, CDC Confirms. |
FrisbeeDude 07/24/17 9:39:46 AM #1: | http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5971fcf6e4b09e5f6cceba87 Most murders of American women involve domestic violence, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday. The CDC analyzed data from 18 states, finding 10,018 female homicides between 2003 and 2014. Over half ― 55 percent ― of cases where circumstances were known involved domestic violence. In 93 percent of those cases, victims were killed by current or former intimate partners: boyfriends, husbands, and lovers. The other 7 percent of victims were female friends, family members, first responders and bystanders who were killed during a domestic incident. While the facts seem shocking at face value, they’re not surprising or new. It is already well-established that women in the U.S. are far more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than by any other group of people. As HuffPost previously reported: It’s not strangers, friends or acquaintances who pose the biggest threat to women’s lives. It’s the men they date and marry. Around three women a day are murdered by an intimate partner, and in many cases, children and others are also killed. The majority of mass shootings ― defined as four or more people fatally shot, not including the perpetrator ― involve domestic violence. The CDC found that firearms were used in 54 percent of all female homicides. Limiting access to guns for those subject to a domestic violence protective order could serve as a preventative measure to help reduce deaths, it said. Damn. Can we really blame women for being overly cautious with men in the dating scene? --- No one gets in the way of my frisbee games! NO ONE! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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