Kentucky Should Save Women’s Lives by Restricting Gun Access in Domestic Violence Situations
Kentucky ranked eighth in 2015, the first time since 2004 that we have been among the 10 states with the highest rates of women killed by men, reports the Violence Policy Center in its annual analysis of FBI homicide data.
In about two-thirds of the cases, intimate partners — husbands, boyfriends, exes — did the killing, in Kentucky and nationally.
More than half of the time — 76 percent in Kentucky — a gun was used to kill the woman.
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