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In reply to the discussion: Who kills women with guns? [View all]BainsBane
(57,775 posts)the evidence is clear. "The trick is not to hook up with a violent man." Good luck with that, since 1/3 of women are abused or raped by their partners, which means that close to 1/3 of men are batters or rapists, as made clear by a recent PBS report on violence against women. The WHO report released this year also provides similar statistics.
Then there is the fact that guns are often taken from women and used against them. Of course the gun lobby insists that men with restraining orders be allowed guns, which increases the homicide rate of women in those areas by 7%.
We can all imagine ways that people might kill, but the fact is the vast majority--around 70%-- use guns because they perform so efficiently.
These are crime statistics. Whatever you invent in your mind to pretend they don't exist is entirely your problem.