It's a woman's issue, a race issue and a national security issue.

[AndyS]

Yet another study reinforcing the need to make guns harder to get.

I've said before and I'll say again; the only way to decrease gun violence is to decrease availability of guns. Gun violence is directly related to the number of guns available. Decrease one, decrease the other.

Study: More gun dealers, more intimate partner homicide.
 Researchers from the University of Denver and Rutgers found that cities with more federally licensed firearms dealers had a heightened risk level for intimate partner homicide. This held true across states with different levels of regulation for gun ownership, though the connection between dealers and intimate partner homicide was more pronounced in states with lower average rates of gun ownership. The researchers found that there was no association between illegal gun ownership and this form of homicide. And using data from The Trace’s “Missing Pieces” investigation on stolen guns and crimes, the researchers also observed that lost and stolen guns don’t tend to be as associated with IPH, but are linked with firearm homicides between strangers, loose acquaintances, or other family members. Overall, the study found that economic disadvantage and being a divorced man were among the other factors that increased the risk for intimate partner homicide. More from The Trace: In 29 states and the District of Columbia, firearms restrictions aren’t automatically included in temporary orders of protection, which, as Ann Givens reports, leaves those asking the legal system for help particularly vulnerable.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091743521001833?

https://www.thetrace.org/projects/missing-pieces/

https://www.thetrace.org/2021/01/restraining-order-gun-restriction-shootings-gun-mi-az-nh-sd/

https://www.thetrace.org/2021/01/domestic-violence-gun-protective-order-rosemarie-reilly-michigan/

[crickets]

1. K&R for visibility.