Domestic violence and firearms are normally a lethal combination that results in injury as well as killing the women, children along with the bystanders on a daily basis in the US. In a study carried out among the high-income countries, the US represented a miniature 32% of the female population and at the same time accounting for 84%of all the female homicides related to gun violence (Seabrook, 10). The gun is the weapon most commonly used in the cases of domestic homicides. Statistics indicates that women are six times more likely to murder by their current as well as former intimate partners than is the case with the male strangers. Of all the females that were killed by men by the use of a firearm, more than two-thirds were often killed by their intimate partners. Additionally, it follows that 53% of the females killed by men are normally shot and consequently killed by the use of a gun (Webster, Daniel, et al. 27-40). The female intimate partners have a greater likelihood of being killed by the use of a firearm than any other means when combined. Statistics additionally reveal that the women who are suffering from domestic violence are eight times more likely to kill if there is a firearm in their …show more content…
Additionally, the participation of the various individuals in the drug markets has been predicated to elevate the levels of gun violence as they are major contributing factors to the involvement of firearms. In this case, the contention is that the individuals who normally buy as well as sell the gun’s experience elevated rates of gun violence in comparison to those who do not participate in the drug business. Furthermore, research indicates that the introduction of the crack cocaine into the market was a major contributor to the proliferation of guns in the urban setting in the US (McLeigh, 273-292). The guns consequently became a fundamental “tool for trade” in the illicit drug market. The logic behind the increase in the proliferation of these guns is the fact that the sellers carried large sums of money thus needing additional protection against any form of robbery. The increase in the number of youths taking part in the drug business saw the carrying of guns in the streets become a symbol, with the carrying of the guns diffusing to even the nondrug