Opinion | Susan B. Sorenson: The NRA says guns — not VAWA — keep women safe. Here's what the research says. - NBCNewsTHINK
in defiance of the NRA. As the fight heads to the Senate, it’s more important than ever to debunk these kinds of misperceptions about intimate partner violence. This is one of those instances when the stakes can literally be life or death.
When thinking about firearms and intimate partner violence, at least two things are at play — fear and risk.Tucked into many health care intake forms these days, somewhere between queries about one’s history of heart disease and weekly alcohol consumption, is a question about whether a patient feels safe at home.
Now imagine that fear when the abuser has access to a gun. Although the immediate concern here is whether victims of intimate partner violence should be armed, there is virtually no credible research on the question. But we know a fair amount about the consequences when the abuser is armed.Our recent research, based on tens of thousands of Philadelphia Police Department reports of intimate partner violence, found that awere male-on-female. Also, fear was far more common when a gun was used.
Some of these killings are impulsive, but most follow a history of abuse. The best research to date, published in 2003, indicates that women who have been abused by their partner areThe best research to date indicates that women who have been abused by their partner are five times as likely to be killed by that partner if he has access to a gun.
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