Melissa Harris-Perry Quotes About Guns

Quotes about: Guns

• According to the CDC, more than one in three women and one in four men in the United States have been victims of domestic violence. It is a widespread public health problem, and every year 1,600 women and 700 men are killed by their intimate partners. One of the biggest risk factors that domestic violence will become fatal is the presence of a gun.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Gun, Men, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• From 2001 to 2012 at least 6,410 women were murdered by an intimate partner using a gun. That`s more than the number of U.S. troops killed in action in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  War, Gun, Iraq

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Terrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are not headline-grabbing massacres. They`re more private, more intimate, and perhaps in that way, even more horrifying. Domestic violence, make no mistake, domestic violence is a gun issue.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Mistake, Gun, Mass Shootings

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• You are five times more likely to be killed by your abuser if your abuser can get their hands on a gun. That`s not a small problem.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Gun, Small Problems, Hands

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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