How are guns used in the US? To kill women

The Trace

Misha Valencia in the NY Times:

Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is fatally shot by a current or former partner. Intimate partner homicide is one of the leading causes of death for women in the country, with nearly half of all murdered women killed by a partner...

Sarah Mervosh in the NY Times:

A new study has found that a higher rate of firearm ownership is associated with a higher rate of domestic violence homicide in the United States, but that the same does not hold true for other kinds of gun homicide.

That means that women, who make up most victims of domestic homicide, are among those most at risk, said Aaron Kivisto, an associate professor of clinical psychology at the University of Indianapolis and the lead author on the study.

“It is women, in particular, who are bearing the burden of this increased gun ownership,” he said...

democratic underground

Republican humor

TW: Sexual abuse of women

7 young white men who work for #TeamMitch grope & kiss a cardboard cutout of @AOC w/the caption “break me off a piece of that.”😳

They’ve been conditioned to find abuse of women funny😑

KY ranks 9th in rate of women murdered by men😓

Unacceptable pic.twitter.com/1etbTfBcmp

— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) August 6, 2019

Thanks to Daily Kos.

See also Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls out Mitch McConnell after his fans grope a cardboard cutout of her and The “Team Mitch” Boys Attend a Christian School.