How do protective orders really help women? In light of today's mass shooting..

[DanTex]

190. It's much easier to murder with a gun than with other weapons.

It's not a coincidence that the homicide rate in the US is something like 5 times higher than the rest of the developed world, where they have much tighter gun laws.

The idea of domestic violence victims getting Conceal Carry licenses to defend themselves from abusive husbands plays well at NRA conventions, but, the sober reality is that preventing the abusive domestic partners from getting guns in the first place is far more important. There really isn't any evidence that a concealed gun makes a person safer, whereas there is a mountain of evidence that a gun in a home with domestic abuse makes things much worse.

Close the loopholes allowing people to avoid background checks, require handguns to be registered, and the rest of the things that gun violence experts have been advocating for years.