Mary Sanchez: Yes, he’s violent, but he's just your ‘boyfriend’
If a man takes a gun, shoots, and kills a woman who he’ s been in an intimate relationship with, is the gunshot victim more, or less worthy of protection depending on if the two were married? Really, it’ s not a trick question. Logically, from an empathy standpoint, it should matter little if the two people have ever been married, or if they’ ve ever lived together, or if they...
by Mary Sanchez, Tribune Content Agency
Jun 17, 2022
3 minutes
If a man takes a gun, shoots, and kills a woman who he’s been in an intimate relationship with, is the gunshot victim more, or less worthy of protection depending on if the two were married?
Really, it’s not a trick question.
Logically, from an empathy standpoint, it should matter little if the two people have ever been married, or if they’ve ever lived together, or if they became parents.
But those are the standards in federal law. Right now, unless a convicted domestic
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