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In reply to the discussion: Has this ever happened to you? No? Then I am glad. [View all]CitizenPatriot
(3,783 posts)but the facts are that women are killed more often by a partner than men are. 3 women are killed a day in the US by an intimate partner.
Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to womenmore than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined.
http://domesticviolencestatistics.org/domestic-violence-statistics/
I am sorry for what you've gone through. However, the facts are that domestic violence more often kills women than it does men, and that is why we make that claim. It is true. In no way is that fact meant to disparage what your family went through.
Again, no one is justifying violence against anyone. Violence is always wrong. You would make your point better if you were not ignoring the facts. You don't have to claim men suffer more than women from domestic violence in order to make your point.
Your point could be that violence against anyone is wrong, and that it does get aimed at men, and that men have died from it as well. I've never laughed at any man who brought that up. It's not either/or and it's not a contest to see who should get the attention. Passing the VAWA doesn't make your point any less valid.
I have seen friends of mine hunted down with guns by their partner, and have helped women escape from deranged violent men in their lives. Many of us have seen the pain close up.
That said, it is true that people ignore the Violence Against Women Act. It simply isn't a cool cause for some reason, and that deeply saddens me re the liberal movement. It needs to be reauthorized before we go back to the even higher stats from before Biden passed it originally.