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Content warning: this article contains mentions of racial discrimination against First Nations people, and themes of domestic violence.

Advocates for domestic violence victims were stunned by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling

Advocates for domestic violence victims were stunned by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which continued a string of court decisions citing the Second Amendment to erase gun restrictions.

A federal appeals court ruling last week that people under restraining orders for domestic violence cannot be prohibited from having guns was utterly divorced from reality even if it also was utterly predictable. The U.S. Supreme Court, in setting a standard on gun laws that relies on the trendy right-wing…

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Some 1.6 million women (17%) and 548,000 men (6.1%) in Australia aged 15 or older have experienced physical or sexual violence from a current or previous cohabiting partner. This means significant proportions of the population in Australia have perpetrated domestic or sexual violence.

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Thomas Lowther, of Gosforth, left his then-partner fearing he would kill her during an attack after a night out