[goodwithagun]

The problem with domestic violence laws is that anyone can call one in and the cops are taking the man away. There has been an ongoing fight to get the federal domestic violence law (can't remember exact name right now) repealed because it is a violation of due process for men. My brother in law dealt with it in SC. His wife called in a threat and the po-po came and took him away. He claimed the entire time that nothing happened. Didn't matter, the call was made, and they had to take him in. Turns out that the apartment complex security cams caught the whole thing, including her pushing him and him doing NOTHING in return. It also showed the cops taking him off in cuffs while he denied harming his wife. Of course all charges were dropped, and he never received an apology from the po-po. Just doin’ their jobs, ya know.

[org.whodat]

Nothing can be designed that is 100 percent perfect, but then cops leaving while someone bleeds out is not the answer either and that is why we have the current laws.

[kaylar]

I think it's VAWA...Violence Against Women Act:

VAWA was drafted by then-U.S. Senator Joseph R. Biden's office with support from a number of advocacy organizations including National Coalition Against Sexual Assault, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Legal Momentum and The National Organization for Women, which described the bill as "the greatest breakthrough in civil rights for women in nearly two decades."[1] VAWA was reauthorized by Congress in 2000, and again in December 2005.[2]

[muawiyah]

Then there was this Luark guy who was a really great family friend ~ and one day he beat his mother in law and wife nearly to death.

He went to prison.

One day he stopped by to visit and we locked him out and told him to go away.

I was about 8 years old at the time.

Yes, there are reasons for the domestic violence laws. He hadn't done that before but had had a history of a progression of violent outbursts. He'd still be an old family friend if they'd had those laws and he could have been straightened out.

So what is your problem ~ does it perhaps center on somewhere between your wife and your daughter?