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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx-wife of suspected Orlando shooter: ‘He beat me’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/ex-wife-of-suspected-orlando-shooter-he-beat-me/2016/06/12/8a1963b4-30b8-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?tid=sm_twThe ex-wife of the 29-year-old man suspected of killing 50 people in a Orlando nightclub early Sunday said that he was violent and mentally unstable and beat her repeatedly while they were married.
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He seemed like a normal human being, she said, adding that he wasnt very religious and worked out at the gym often. She said in the few months they were married he gave no signs of having fallen under the sway of radical Islam. She said he owned a small-caliber handgun and worked as a guard at a nearby facility for juvenile delinquents.
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The ex-wife said her parents intervened when they learned Mateen had assaulted her. Her father confirmed the account and said that the marriage lasted only a few months.
yardwork
(61,608 posts)David__77
(23,394 posts)Beating someone is a crime. And I think it's a good indication that the person is a danger to those beside the person being beaten.
Bad Thoughts
(2,524 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)Police.
I added the sentence about her family assisting her to the OP.
Wonder if that would have impacted his security job in a juvenile detention center as well.
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)s-cubed
(1,385 posts)increases the risk of being murdered. That's why shelters for victims of domestic abuse are in secret locations and why women give up their cellphones so they can't be found. Yes, it would have been better for society if he had lost his gun permit, but there is no certainty that that would actually have happened.
yardwork
(61,608 posts)suffragette
(12,232 posts)We need to start there.
A better way to protect and help them would likely lead to more safety for the rest of society as well.
nolabear
(41,963 posts)I can't let him do that to me. I can't. Oh, my heart.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)I did the same thing earlier today, so not worth it.
Peace.
Love.
Friendship.
mopinko
(70,103 posts)is perpetrators of domestic violence.
if there is a better indicator of a potential to kill someone than that, i dont know what it is or could be.
i know in illinois, you get convicted, or get an order of protection taken out against you, you lose the right to own a gun. but in few jurisdictions do they actually knock on your door and take them away.
i wonder sometimes what a world we would have if we stopped treating this as some understandable, personal act, and started treating it an attack on the foundation of society that it is. we hear that, the family is the cornerstone. then we treat what happens in the family like some isolated sphere in which we shouldnt "interfere".
beating a child should be the highest crime their is. beating your partner should be #2.
family family family we cry. then we turn our backs.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Thank you saying it so eloquently.
yardwork
(61,608 posts)Too often our justice system still refuses to see domestic violence for what it is. Excuses are made for the perpetrators. We need to recognize that violence is violence, and violent people will escalate their behavior if they aren't stopped.
MH1
(17,600 posts)I 100% agree with you.
If someone is violent to a member of their household, they shouldn't be trusted with a gun.
mopinko
(70,103 posts)covering for his own ass? i wonder.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Priorities!