“I knew I was being abused because I started becoming an abuser. He would say mean things to me and yell at me and we would fight, I would end up hitting him because I got so mad and sad,” said Kate, a survivor of domestic abuse.
Domestic Violence is an act of violence from someone you know or particularly in your circle whose purpose aims to gain control of the situation. More than 100,000 cases of domestic violence occur yearly in the U.S. The top ten states that have most reported cases of domestic violence are Nevada, Arkansas, Idaho, Delaware, Mississippi, North Carolina, Florida, Alaska, Texas and Oklahoma are tied for 11th.
Notice anything about these states? Most of them are MAGA states, states that support the Second Amendment and abortion.
Even after the failed assassination, President-elect Trump refuses to support gun control. It may not affect him, but it does affect the rising cases of domestic abuse towards females. Females constantly lose their lives due to gun violence from their intimate partner. Firearms from an intimate partner kill more than 70 women between the ages of 18-85 every month.
“If a person has a severe mental illness, [they] may have other risk factors for violent behavior,” he says. “So, it may not be mental illness that is driving the violence at all, but rather factors like having been abused as a child, being unemployed, or living in a high-crime neighborhood,” said Eric B. Elbogen, PhD, a psychologist and professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Duke University School of Medicine who studies violence and mental illness.
Our society needs to reflect on this situation and think about a solution to this ongoing problem. New methods must be initiated to help men deal with the mental crisis that leads to these acts of violence against women and children.
