AND...?
Is there a point here?
Try this one on for size...
This isn't a gun problem, it just brings to light a serious problem in our society...domestic violence.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, an average of three women are murdered by an intimate partner every day in the United States. But they were not the girlfriend of an NFL player. They didn't make the headlines, except perhaps in their local communities.There was no public mourning.
Battered women seek medical attention for domestic violence injuries significantly more often after separation than during cohabitation.
About 75% of the visits to emergency rooms by battered women occur after separation.
Women who leave their batterers are at 75% greater risk of severe injury or death than those who stay. (Source: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence).
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Here's another thought...maybe if Jovan Belcher didn't own a firearm, his rage would have landed Kasandra Perkins in a hospital emergency room with a black eye, instead of the hospital's morgue.
Bob Costas Sunday night comments paraphrased and quoted extensively from a piece by Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock. Here are Whitlock's paragraphs leading up to the word Costas repeated:
How many young people have to die senselessly? How many lives have to be ruined before we realize the right to bear arms doesn’t protect us from a government equipped with stealth bombers, predator drones, tanks and nuclear weapons?
Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.
In the coming days, Belcher’s actions will be analyzed through the lens of concussions and head injuries. Who knows? Maybe brain damage triggered his violent overreaction to a fight with his girlfriend. What I believe is, if he didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.