Last summer Justice Clarence Thomas broke 10 years of silence to weigh in on the "gun rights" of domestic abusers. Why can't domestic abusers have guns he asked? "Give me another area where a misdemeanor violation suspends a constitutional right," he grumbled.
Weeks later in Pennsylvania, seemingly on cue, Mark Short, despite two prior police reports of domestic violence, legally purchased a gun and killed his wife and their three young children (pictured) two days later in the latest chilling example of gendercide.
Everyone from criminologists, to law enforcement officers, to psychologists knows domestic violence predicts gun violence and death. But thanks to the gun lobby we allow and enable----actually sit on our hands and wait----imminent murders because of"gun rights."
This week's San Bernardino killer Cedric Anderson is a case in point. Despite a 30-year history of battery charges and domestic violence allegations, he was not barred from legally buying a gun and killed his wife and a student this week.
Just as with Anderson, few were surprised that Marcus Dee was capable of shooting and killing former girlfriend Nadia Ezaldein on Black Friday of 2014 in front of horrified shoppers at Nordstrom's on Chicago's Magnificent Mile. He had a long domestic violence history. Six days before the murder, Dee attacked a friend of Ezaldein, causing broken bones. Month's earlier, court documents reveal the victim's sister said Dee had "cracked Ezaldein's ribs, broke her jaw, ripped her clothing, stabbed her jacket with a switch knife, ripped her boots, bruised her lip, threw her clothing out the window and put a gun in her mouth."
Many and perhaps most killers have similar violent histories.
"Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech shooter, was investigated for stalking two female students," and "Elliot Roger, who killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in 2014, tried to shove several women off a 10-foot ledge at a party and claimed in a 'manifesto' that his violence was part of his 'war on women,'" writes the Slate's Christina Cauterucci. Esteban Santiago, who killed five at the Fort Lauderdale airport and Omar Mateen, who killed 49 at the Pulse nightclub, were also domestic abusers she writes.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
1
1
