It is here, in the spaces between husbands and wives, beaus and lovers, parents and children, that the government has shouldered its greatest burden of keeping dangerous weapons out of dangerous hands. Indeed, most mass shootings - which are often defined as shootings of four or more people - are episodes of domestic violence. An analysis by the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety found that 54 percent of mass shootings were connected to family violence.
In nine of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern American history, the gunmen had records of threatening, stalking or physically abusing loved ones. Nowhere is this tension more stark than within America’s homes, where so much of its lethal violence begins. The availability of guns provides a sense of security to those who wield them and of vulnerability to those who don’t. Americans’ intimacy with firearms was written into our founding document.
They are central to our history, our nightly news, our national mythology.
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