Posted on 04/03/2013 2:24:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Mayors Against Illegal Guns continues its push for commonsense gun law reforms today with a new ad and research highlighting the disturbing link between violence against women and guns. The ad features Elvin Daniel, a gun owner and NRA member whose sister Zina Daniel was murdered in the Brookfield, Wisconsin, spa shooting in October 2012. Several days after she obtained a restraining order against her violent estranged husband – which made him a prohibited purchaser – he bought a semiautomatic handgun from a private online seller without a background check, which he used the next day to murder her and two other people. If Zina and her husband lived in nearby Michigan, where a background check is required for every handgun sale, she and the other victims might still be alive today. In fact, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has found that in states that require a background check for every handgun sale, 38 percent fewer women are shot to death by intimate partners. The ad can be viewed here: www.demandaction.org/elvin.
"Zina's story is a powerful reminder of how our country's broken gun laws – including the private sale loophole – contribute to the epidemic of gun violence and violence against women," said Mayors Against Illegal Guns Co-Chair and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Restraining orders don’t work if the guy is a killer. Zina should have been armed and ready to enforce her own restraining order.
because 100% of women can physically defend themselves from a 250-300 pound muscle head...
This must be the retard section of Yahoo news again...
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