Regarding the umbrage taken at you for saying 'trivial slaps'...Well, no, of course one should not engage in any level of violence if possible but should a 'trivial slap' or a normal slap result in you (a man in 99% of the cases, because a woman would not usually be arrested for slapping a man) being handcuffed, lose your children, your home, etc.? This is what happens throughout the US today to any man unlucky enough to get on the wrongside of his female partner because of the patently unfair domestic violence laws, in particular the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) which funds a well entrenched industry harmful to men.
VAWA is up for refunding (so far 3.3 billion in 5 years) this year. Hopefully the law will be defunded.
Can you explain the workings of this?
The VAWA was struck down by the USSC in US v Morrison.