5th Circuit Rules That People Accused of Domestic Violence Have a Right to Keep Their Guns

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Americans today may have no power to disarm those men who are most likely to murder their wives, girlfriends, and children.

that bars individuals from possessing guns if they are “subject to a court order that restrains [them] from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner.” The case began in 2020, when Rahimi’s ex-girlfriend accused him of assaulting her. A Texas court then issued a civil protective order restraining Rahimi from harassing, stalking, or threatening his ex-girlfriend . Rahimi agreed to this order, which also explicitly barred him from possessing a gun.

Of course, domestic abusers are categorically different from speeders and dissidents. There is a reason why the government disarms them today: They are at exponentially heightened risk of using their gun to commit murder., an abuser’s access to guns makes it five times more likely that a woman will be killed. More than half of intimate partner homicides are committed with guns. An American woman is shot and killed by an intimate partner every 14 hours.

of mass shootings between 2014 and 2019 were related to intimate partner violence, while 68 percent of mass shooters had a history of domestic violence.

 

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Will stand your ground law have an amendment to justify the shooting of a person who has been charged with domestic abuse?

Its ok, just give guns to kids and girlfriends and it will all be fine...

'The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the ... Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.'

Baffling.

Lunacy

Those pesky MEN. Promote sex-selective abortion NOW!

The no rule of no law. Good god.

Remind us again how Republicans are pro life?

For any woman who remembers the terror she felt when her father beat her mother, this ruling brings it all back.

What happens when you base rulings on a hundreds of year old document.

Wtf

73% of the Wives, Girlfriends and their children have no worries. Their family have no Men. The Men are already somewhere else (prison or selling dope) . Try again. Maybe use Gang related deaths in Democratic cities.

Wow. Tamp down the drama, will ya?

Sounds like you are pro China where they have no rights including 2nd amendment

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