As every woman who has dealt with a violent partner knows, batterers are the opposite of the tough guys they pretend to be. Why else do they attack women and children? Zimmerman said he feared for his life when he encountered Trayvon Martin--even though he was the one with the gun. If he hadn't self-deputized into a cop wannabe staking out and stalking strangers, there wouldn't have been a lethal weapon to begin with. What's wrong with this picture?
Intimate partner homicide increases by 500 percent when a firearm is present and women are three times as likely to be shot and killed by gun-wielding intimate partners than by strangers. Yet NRA-bought politicians keep laws on the books that elevate gun rights above women's lives. Who will be Zimmerman's next victim?
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