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We must fight for all victims of gun violence. Even the ones that don’t make headlines.

PERSPECTIVE | What would it look like to fully advocate for women’s safety?

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March 24, 2018 at 9:29 a.m. EDT

Domestic violence victims are 500 percent more likely to be killed if their abuser has a gun.

I have enormous respect for the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who are advocating to not live in fear of mass shootings at the March for Our Lives.

In addition to tragic and increasingly common mass shootings, we must not forget the anonymous women who are killed by intimate partners every day. What would it look like to fully advocate for women’s safety?

Could we start by saying that individuals who have a history of domestic abuse or restraining orders aren’t allowed to buy new guns, as is being considered in some states?

What can we learn from the leadership of Parkland students? What’s the intersection between #MeToo and #NeverAgain?

Sources: Everytown for Gun Safety and The National Domestic Violence Hotline.