Commentary: When we treat domestic violence as a private affair, we are culpable in perpetuating it
Buffalo Grove, Illinois, village spokesperson Molly Gillespie announced at a news conference that there was no threat to the public from the domestic terrorist attack at a suburban home earlier this month. I beg to differ. It is precisely when we treat domestic violence as contained to the particular family in which it is occurring that we play a part in perpetuating it rather than doing what we can as friends, family, neighbors or law enforcement to stop it from escalating.
We need to treat domestic terrorism as the insidious threat that it is. We should not accept it
