Columnist Upset That Gun Rights Actually Matter To Some People

By Tom Knighton

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Based purely on the name, the Violence Against Women Act sounds like a slam dunk as far as legislation goes. After all, who would actively oppose a law designed to protect women from violence?

Ordinarily, no one. However, Democrats felt the need to inject anti-gun language into the bill. Now, Republicans are working against it, and some supposed “thinkers” are upset at the idea [emphasis mine]:

Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act should have been a layup in Congress. I mean, c’mon.

There is bipartisan agreement that this a good law.

Statistics paint a damning picture of the danger women can face when an ex-husband or boyfriend can’t let it go.

The Violence Policy Center issued a report entitled “When Men Murder Women.” FBI data from 2015 and showed 928 female murder victims were either wives or “intimate acquaintances” of the man who killed them.

But as Congress debated reauthorizing the 25-year-old law, it turned into a debate over – wait for it – Second Amendment rights.

Democrats wanted to close the so-called “boyfriend loophole” where an unmarried partner convicted of abuse can own a weapon. Spouses and ex-spouses already are …Read the Rest

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